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The current government of SA led to this
If the bill exceeds tax receipts then the end result will be a hit on the exchange rate(as the govt. prints money .. sorry, engages in quantitative easing). That affects imports, so the question is :- 'how reliant is South Africa on imports ? That will determine if this model is sustainable or not. >

Yeah blame welfare and not the decades of racism. Gee I wonder why nobody built anything of note in South Africa. Could it have been the all the sanctions ? >

I'm not sure how much to trust a source called "The Investor" since the bias is obvious, but it depends on how much a "grant" is. Bloomberg's report last year (which had quite different numbers, so either things have changed tragically in under a year or this site is misreporting) says the average is $23 US per month which could be easily sustained depending on what taxpayers normally pay. (Plus there are other revenue sources, which Bloomberg noted was buoying everything.) >

A grant consists of R350 ($20.68) per month. >

So? Massive inequality leads to this kind of thing. Nothing oniony about it.