The DA has called upon the Minister to act on the Committee’s recommendation. Specifically, the basket must be expanded to include essentials such as bone-in chicken, beef, tinned beans, wheat flour, margarine, peanut butter, baby food, tea, coffee, and soup powder.
The recommendation is set against a backdrop of stunted economic growth, a widening budget deficit, expenditures on a bloated public sector wage bill and ongoing bailouts to failed State-Owned Enterprises.
Source: SA People on MSN
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