The Financial and Fiscal Commission told MPs that the immediate priority of government should be on providing social relief to the poor
The immediate focus of the reworked budget that finance minister Tito Mboweni will table in parliament in the next month or so must be on social relief measures rather than fiscal consolidation.
Brown was part of a team of FFC programme managers and senior researchers led by chair Dan Plaatjies, which presented the commission’s view on the reprioritisations that the Treasury should make in its forthcoming budget. “The commission recommends that the cycle of low growth and high inequality broken through bold actions aimed at giving poor South Africans better access to good jobs so that they can fully participate in the economy,” the FFC presenters said.
According to the FFC, the relaxation by the government of its fiscal consolidation stance must be accompanied by robust reform focusing on digital education, land reform and agriculture for food security, improving governance and fighting corruption and reviewing the subsidy framework for social programmes. Fraud and corruption and inefficiencies in the delivery of essential services must be addressed.
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