The Democratic Alliance called for Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni to clarify “where the R100 billion Covid-19 relief fund for jobs and businesses is, and what it is being spent on”.
In a statement, the DA said Stats SA’s report on the rise in unemployment represented the state of the economy before the Covid-19 pandemic and the full effect of the national lockdown. “When the minister of finance delivers his emergency budget speech tomorrow, he must table a ‘resilience budget’ aimed at helping South Africans brace for the full impact of the lockdown crisis on our economy.
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