In this podcast episode Busi Sibeko discusses the following issues regarding the South African economy : Why its false to think people have children for grants.
– Why we should not have cut national spend.
– The cost of austerity.
– Why GDP is not great measure to tell us the state of the economy?
– We demystify the R500billion (why we didn’t have to go to the IMF) and the avenues we did not explore.
– How South Africa was the second country in the world to introduce gender responsible budgeting. But since then we have gender blind budgets, child blind budgets etc.
– So much money was shuffled into building field hospitals, but what about the current hospitals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkx8DozN6k