South Africa’s push to increase public investment, outlined in the 2021 budget speech, is likely to prove to be a damp squib. Meanwhile, the rand took a beating in recent days amidst a rout in global financial markets, but we doubt that this would prompt the Reserve Bank to tighten monetary policy.
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