NEWS ANALYSIS | The Godongwana way: A communist at heart, a pragmatist in practice

Fiscal discipline delivers SA’s first back-to-back primary surpluses in 16 years

unemployment, poverty and inequality are deepening. This is a crisis like

constituency, labour and the SACP, express their dissatisfaction at the austerity measures the Treasury has embarked on.

and market participants.

Assessing Godongwana’s track record since 2021 reveals nuanced, mixed accomplishments, with the bala

He credited the unflinching support President Cyril Ramaphosa has given to Godongwana and his team with making progress possible — the next challenges are speeding up the implementation of the economic reforms, which have found expression in