SACCI Media Release
Tuesday
21 February 2017
SACCI EXPECTATIONS OF THE BUDGET 2017
The Minister of Finance, the Honourable Mr Pravin Gordhan, will be delivering the Budget Speech on the 22nd of February 2017. The 2017 Budget Speech is being delivered at a time South Africa is experiencing subdued economic growth, with the outlook for 2017 revised by the Reserve bank to 1.1% from a previous outlook of 1.2%.
The 2017 Budget Speech also comes at a time when the ruling party is approaching its national elective conference. The President has in recent times spoken about “radical economic transformation” and SACCI would like to see how “radical economic transformation” will be interpreted in the 2017 budget speech.
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