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MTBPS: ‘Can government spend itself out of trouble?’

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A round-up of the day’s news, including why the mid-term budget could dim some of the GNU’s shine, the medicine regulator urges the Treasury to provide more funding to the organisation and tough times for NGOs as a 106-year-old charity might be forced to close its doors come December.
22 Oct 2024 6AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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