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“There’s no need to be apologetic about it. There is no social contract [that says] there needs to be x amount of an increase. The allocations we made [are] what we can afford,” said Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in what he described as his “political answer” in a post-Budget media briefing.  Earlier the finance-speak answer came from the National Treasury deputy director-general, Mampho Modise.  “When we looked at the overall fiscal consolidation, we could not really protect the social grants. At least there’s still an increase. Once we have the debt under control we can look how we can.” 

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