South Africa’s finance minister used today’s Budget speech to once again offer more fiscal giveaways, mainly in the form of putting off previously mooted tax rises, rather than save the revenue windfall afforded to him by high metals prices. Fiscal consolidation plans remain intact, for now, but we worry that meeting fiscal targets will be difficult with tax rises seemingly off the table and disagreements within the ruling coalition always a risk.
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