{"id":24200,"date":"2026-02-25T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/debt-servicing-costs-will-be-in-focus-during-sa-budget-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:55","slug":"debt-servicing-costs-will-be-in-focus-during-sa-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/debt-servicing-costs-will-be-in-focus-during-sa-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt servicing costs will be in focus during SA Budget Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will take the nation into his confidence on Wednesday as to how National Treasury plans to raise additional revenue and allocate its limited resources to many of government\u2019s priorities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>And whether it is still on track to whittling down the nation\u2019s sovereign debt and importantly, the annual debt service costs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>According to PWC, SA Reserve Services has reported higher than expected revenue coming in on a monthly basis, which may result in National Treasury\u2019s original revenue target being exceeded in the 2025\/26 fiscal year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Kyle Mandy is PWC Head of Tax, \u201cThere\u2019s a good chance that the $1.2 billion worth of tax increases that were penciled into last year\u2019s budget for this year will not go ahead or, at least, not go ahead to that same extent, so we\u2019re pretty hopeful that we\u2019ll see some relief insofar as pit is concerned for fiscal drag, hopefully full relief, but at the very least partial relief.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22816,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-24200","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Godongwana will take the nation into his confidence on Wednesday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Godongwana will take the nation into his confidence on Wednesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26954,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24200\/revisions\/26954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}