The monkey on the back of govt's "best laid' fiscal plans

In his response to the 2022 Budget Speech this week, former Finance Minister, Thapelo Matsheka, took legislators down memory lane, recalling how the Budget Speech of 1997 spoke to the themes of tighter public finance management as a tool for more efficient development funding.

Copies of that particular budget speech do not readily appear online but a copy at the Parliamentary Library indicates that then Finance Minister, Festus Mogae, was more emphatic about the need for transformation than the sentence paraphrased by Matsheka.