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Comment on Budget Speech 2009 |
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Sunday, 05 April 2009 |
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by Joan van Niekerk, Childline SA National Coordinator There has been mixed reaction to the 2009 budget speech of Minister Trevor Manual. He has been lauded by many for presenting a budget that balances various interests as well as taking into account the present global recession and its impact on the South African economy. However from the perspective of the poor, and children, the budget offers little relief from the challenges of their day-to-day existence. Minister Manual opened his speech by noting that the budget had been guided by five enduring principles, the first of which is “protecting the poor”. However what followed in the full content of the speech, offered more to protecting the taxpayer and business – especially small business, rather than the poor. |
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