Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Getty Images
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has doubled down on the government’s fiscal consolidation efforts by reducing spending from 28.6% of GDP in the 2023-24 financial year to 27.6% in 2024-25.
This largely reflects measures implemented in recent years and slower growth projected in non-interest expenditure relative to GDP, the treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement tabled in parliament on…