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Budget Speech 2019Conclusion |
In summary, Madam Speaker, let me outline the highlights of this Budget:
| 1. | We are taking tough steps to fix the fiscal position and state-owned enterprises. |
| 2. | Our children are our future. Most of the spending goes to education, and we will strengthen early childhood development and support higher education for the most deserving. |
| 3. | On land, we have set aside money to help our people buy their own houses, support land reform, and transfer title deeds. |
| 4. | On electricity, we face tough choices on Eskom. |
| 5. | We are reprioritising resources towards the President’s infrastructure fund and away from the wage bill. |
Madam Speaker, this is a Budget that plants a seed for renewal and growth.
It is all of our duty to tend the seed and see that it grows strong, tall and fruitful.
It is a Budget for the future.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12.
Thank you.
