Finance Minister Tito Mboweni grimly warned of a debt crisis if no action was taken. While exact numbers were put to the Covid-19 measures for, among others, small businesses, workers and vulnerable households, Wednesday's unprecedented supplementary Budget left much unanswered.
It was a mash-up of metaphors. If the emergency Covid-19 Budget, officially South Africa's first Special Adjustment Budget, were an English essay, it would be marked down. But the mixed metaphors were apt for the messiness of Covid-19 lockdown.
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