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ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photoNurse Sonya Young holds a butterfly after a ceremony Thursday at McAlester Regional Health Center honoring people who died of COVID-19 over the past year.
ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photoMcAlester Regional Health Center staff marked a year since the first confirmed COVID-19 case by releasing butterflies to honor the people who died of the virus.
ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photoShawn Howard, vice president of support service at McAlester Regional Health Center, thanks staff during a ceremony at the hospital Thursday. breaking topical featured MRHC nurse, staff reflect on year of COVID-19 pandemic
By Adrian O Hanlon III Editor
When Tito Mboweni stood before Parliament to present the annual Budget on Wednesday, he made a point of repeatedly stressing that this was not an austerity Budget whilst misrepresenting some of his critics who he suggested thought that South Africa was “swimming in cash”. However, civil society had the last laugh.
In a statement issued by a group of 15 social movements and NGOs, including Right2Know and Abahlali baseMjondolo they riposte, “A finance minister should be ‘economically minded’, but he should not be economical with the facts!”
Their analysis of the facts in the Budget Review lead them to allege that “the ANC and the finance minister have turned against their own people”, zooming in particularly on the Budget’s plans for basic education and health which are anything but expansionary.