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21 Feb
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Budget 2024: Why South Africa can't afford to stop the presidential employment stimulus
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Junita Pardesi and Kristal Duncan-Williams said that the existing short-term work opportunities like those created by the Social Employment Fund (SEF) and the Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES), in general, are putting money directly in people’s pockets enabling them to spend in local economies.
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