The eleventh-hour unprecedented postponement of South Africa’s 2025 Budget due to disagreements within the Government of National Unity on tax policy, suggest that it is domestic rather than foreign policy where the cracks in the coalition lie. The delay to the budget reinforces our view that fiscal consolidation and structural reforms will be difficult to push through.
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