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"textContent": "Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana used Standard Bank’s annual post Budget forum in Rosebank not simply to defend a projection but to define the test that now follows it. A week after tabling the 2026 Budget in Parliament he stood before bankers investors and corporate executives to argue that South Africa has reached an inflection point. […]",
"title": "Debt may have peaked but discipline reform and infrastructure must now carry the weight"
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