Cabinet could have South Africans consider that the postponement of the tabling of the National Budget from 19 February to 12 March is a results of efforts by it to collectively deal with the nation’s funding challenges inside a constrained fiscal surroundings.
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Cabinet on Thursday assured South Africans that deliberations inside cupboard on the 2025 National Budget are persevering with to find out the very best methods to fund the nationwide priorities and make sure that the price range displays the aspirations of all South Africans.
Unprecedented transfer
“The postponement, while it is the first in the history of South Africa, but not out of the norm in other jurisdictions, is still within the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA),” cupboard stated in an announcement after it met on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana was scheduled to stipulate the monetary, financial and social commitments that authorities would prioritise in its deliberate expenditure as a part of the 2025 Budget Speech.
However, in an unprecedented transfer, it was postponed for additional deliberation.
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“The annual price range is tabled by the Minister of Finance but it surely requires the deliberation of the Cabinet earlier than it’s tabled within the National Assembly.
“Cabinet thought of that though the tabling of the 2025 price range was scheduled for launch at 14:00 on 19 February 2025, a postponement is required to permit for additional deliberations to happen on the price range.
“Cabinet is united in the view that the budget must strike a balance between the interests of the public, economic growth and fiscal sustainability,” Godongwana stated at a media briefing after the postponement.
Furthermore, the price range is produced and introduced earlier than the National Assembly in keeping with the foundations outlined within the Public Finance Management Act.
During the Budget Speech, the Finance Minister signifies the allocation of monetary sources to the nationwide authorities’s priorities outlined by President Cyril Ramaphosa within the State of the Nation Address.
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