Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is scheduled to deliver an emergency Budget on Wednesday 24 June. The Budget he tabled in late February is now extinct, and this one will be a blueprint for survival as the economy, and with it, the government's main sources of revenue, melt down in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns to contain it.
With the winter solstice behind us, the days are lengthening again in an annual cycle of renewal. But don't expect any rays of sunshine in Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's emergency Budget.
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