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  "path": "/business/2026-02-25-godongwana-holds-better-budget-cards-but-economic-recovery-remains-inadequate/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-25T04:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Business",
    "Austerity",
    "Budget 2026",
    "commodity boom",
    "Cosatu",
    "Cyril Ramaphosa",
    "Economic Growth Forecast",
    "Enoch Godongwana",
    "ESKOM",
    "fiscal consolidation",
    "GDP growth",
    "GNU",
    "Government Of National Unity",
    "infrastructure investment",
    "Matthew Parks",
    "National Treasury",
    "public debt",
    "SAFTU",
    "SARS",
    "South African Revenue Service",
    "state-owned enterprises",
    "Transnet",
    "Unemployment",
    "VAT increase",
    "Zwelinzima Vavi"
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  "textContent": "Labour federations Cosatu and the South African Federation of Trade Unions have led calls for a budget that addresses massive unemployment and weak growth",
  "title": "Godongwana holds better budget cards but economic recovery remains inadequate"
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