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And there are fewer journalists to hold policymakers accountable for this decline
In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s ultra-high unemployment rate and austerity
The journey to full-blown austerity is marked by changes to an economy presided over by a government adrift