Civil Society organisations will tonight
hold a night vigil for budget justice.
This is on the eve of Fiancé Minister
Pravin Gordhan’s 2013 Budget Speech.
More than 30 civil organisations will be
demanding a budget that will give enough scope to the state to address
structural inequality and poverty and create an environment for ecological
development.
Dick Forslund from Alternative Information
Development Centre explains that this calls for budget justice and it is
concentrated on calling for government to tax the rich so the poor can live.
Forslund adds that it is to stop excessive tax
cuts and to finance education, service delivery to provide enough money to the
local government so that service delivery can be accomplished
Forslund said that as Alternative
Information Development they would also like to see the shift in the priority of
the government from infrastructure investments that are more designed to
support the mining and this type of activity.
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