Economics
South Africa Plans to Reprioritize $3.5 Billion of Spending
- Budget reallocation is part of plan to revive flagging economy
- Government to focus on developing new infrastructure
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South Africa will reprioritize 50 billion rand ($3.5 billion) of spending as part of a plan to revive its struggling economy and create jobs for the 27 percent of the workforce who are unemployed.
The government will focus on developing new infrastructure, with 400 billion rand to be spent over the next three fiscal years, and galvanize more funding from private investors, President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a briefing in Pretoria on Friday.