While delivering his 2024 budget speech, the last for the sixth administration since the dawn of democracy three decades ago, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana declared:
Our mission over the past 30 years has been to restore both social and economic justice to our nation and to decisively address the inequality that was the hallmark of systemic discrimination and dispossession.
The budget speech left no one happy. Some complained that it was draining an already overstretched fiscus.