Thank you very much House Chairperson, the story of this budget and the national circumstances that surrounds and inform it is the story repeated so often around the world, of the inevitable collision between ideology and what is fair and right for the society.
Our country continues to suffer low growth, and in fact, a shrinking economy as confirmed by the Statistics SA yesterday, and continues to suffer ever-growing unemployment lines with nearly 11 million people unemployed now, and continues to suffer growing poverty, but still the government will not admit the truth that