Today’s ‘mini-budget’ was a painful admission that South Africa clearly faces a slowly-unfolding fiscal crisis. The gloomy tone may be an attempt to push for unpalatable economic reforms. But today’s speech makes a negative outlook from Moody’s – which is set to evaluate the country on Friday – very likely.
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