Some Budgets make noise. This one keeps its head down and gets on with the job. South Africa’s 2026 Budget offers no splashy giveaways or ideological pivots. Instead, it focuses on one thing: stabilising the public finances after a long stretch of pressure, policy drift, and last year’s bruising Budget politics.
That was the tone of a post-Budget discussion on 27 February between Momentum chief economist Sanisha Packirisamy and National Treasury Director-General Dr Duncan Pieterse. Their exchange showed a Treasury less interested in headlines than in holding the line – locking in discipline, defending primary surpluses, tightening municipal controls, and confronting the structural…
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