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“This… is not an austerity budget. This is NOT an austerity budget. This IS NOT an austerity budget.” These were the words Finance Minister Tito Mboweni chanted to the South African public last week during his presentation of the 2021 Budget Review. However, despite his insistence that austerity was not being pursued, the Budget included severe cuts to social spending on programmes such as education and health. Budget 2021 is undeniably an austerity budget.
Civil society organisations have raised concerns over the catastrophic impact this will have on the lives and futures of South Africans. On 5 March 2021, economist Michael Sachs, as acting chairperson of the Fiscal and Finance Commission, published a supplementary comment on the Budget that echoes these concerns – that the State has failed to properly consider the Budget’s impact on the realisation of constitutionally protected socioeconomic rights.
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By Calum Watson
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The appalling loss of life and challenges facing the care sector in Scotland during the Covid crisis shone a spotlight on services that for years have been buckling under enormous pressures. In September, Nicola Sturgeon announced an independent review into the future of adult social care. The National Health Service was born out of the tragedy of World War Two. Let us resolve that we will build out of this Covid crisis, the lasting and positive legacy of a high quality, National Care Service, the first minister told MSPs.
That review - led by former NHS Scotland boss Derek Feeley - has spoken to more than 1,000 users of social care and experts to develop a blueprint for the future. So what does it recommend and will it happen?