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Govt to spend R10bn on Covid-19 vaccines in two years Updated Sibahle Motha Share this: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has confirmed that government will spend more than R10 billion on the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines over the next two years. COVID-19 vaccine/ iStock   "With this framework we provide the budget for South Africa's vaccination campaign. This campaign allows us to emerge from the restrictions to economic activity.    "We are allocating more than R10 billion for the purchase and delivery of vaccines over the next two years. We increase the contingency reserve from R5 bill...

[WATCH] Mboweni budget speech neither hot nor cold, says economist Updated Sibahle Motha Share this: Independent economist Dr Duma Gqubule has compared Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's budget to a lukewarm cup of tea. GCIS   Gqubule says if Mboweni’s budget speech was a cup of tea “it would be neither hot nor cold”.    He believes one of the glaring omissions in the budget was the failure to provide more flesh around the R500 billion economic stimulus package announced last year.