Experts question Mboweni's public sector wage freeze

The three things that government spends most of our money on:

servicing our debt, which is set to balloon to 5,5 trillion rand in 3 years.

Social relief, like grants to help the most vulnerable,

and the biggest item on the budget, government staff salaries.

In an effort to bring that down, Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, has proposed

a three-year wage freeze. What are the implications of that move?

To answer that question, we were joined by  political economist, Moeletsi Mbeki.

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