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South Africa\u2019s newly appointed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has promised additional funds to ensure female students have access to sanitary pads.<\/p>\nSouth Africa\u2019s newly appointed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has promised additional funds to ensure female students have access to sanitary pads.<\/p>\n
There have been growing calls for this amid complaints that girls \u2013 especially those in poor, rural communities \u2013 have been missing out on school because of the high cost of the pads.<\/p>\n
In some provinces they are already free for all female students.<\/p>\n
To cheers in parliament, he also announced that from next April the 15% tax on sanitary pads would be scrapped.<\/p>\n
Bread flour and cake flour were also now going to be exempt from VAT, he said, explaining that he had asked people on social media for their tips ahead of the speech:<\/p>\n
I received 3,299 tweets in total. One of them is from Tintsi Ngwenya in Johannesburg, who said: \u2018Sanitary pads should be tax free \u2013 after considerable debate and consultation, as of the 1 April 2019, government will zero-rate the following items: One, sanitary pads. Two, bread flour Three, cake flour.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mr Mboweni, who has only been in his job for two weeks, also gave a frank assessment of South Africa\u2019s economy in the mid-term budget speech.<\/p>\n
He said the country could not afford to continue borrowing at its current rate and must reduce its national debt, now expected to reach 60% of GDP in the next five years.<\/p>\n
He said that the public sector wage bill exceeded its budget by 30bn rand ($2bn, \u00a31,6bn).<\/p>\n
Mr Mboweni repeatedly spoke about the cancer of corruption and said that those who were found guilty \u201cmust be locked up\u201d in jail.<\/p>\n
The speech was free of financial jargon \u2013 and he quoted from the Bible and Charles Dickens:<\/p>\n
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity\u2026 we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way.<\/p>\n
So too is the present time. As a country, we stand at a crossroads. We can choose a path of hope; or a path of despair. We can go directly to heaven, or as Dickens so politely puts it, we can go the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo too is the present time \u2013 we can choose the path of hope or the path of despair.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2013<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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