Cosatu anxious but hopeful about MTBPS
(World News South Africa)

Johannesburg - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Monday that it was looking ahead to the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) with some trepidation even though it hoped that finance minister Malusi Gigaba would rise to the occasion. Gigaba will deliver his inaugural MTBPS on Wednesday, setting out the fiscal policy objectives and government spending priorities over the three-year expenditure cycle. Gigaba has an unenviable task of closing...