LIVE DEBATE: SA’s medium-term budget — have your say

Critics of the National Treasury say SA’s macroeconomic framework has adopted a highly restrictive path, with the role of fiscal policy being narrowly conceived to maintain low tax and debt levels and achieve ‘macroeconomic stability’. 

Join BusinessLIVE’s Twitter Space live discussion at 7pm on October 20 ahead of next week’s medium-term budget as our experts — former head of National Treasury’s budget office prof Michael Sachs, Cosatu’s head of policy Lebogang Mulaisi, executive chief economist at Alexforbes Isaah Mhlanga and Business Day editor-at-large Hilary Joffe, unpack this and many other issues alongside our host Khaya Sithole, a respected scholar and CA.