Ray Hartley is concerned about budget deficits under Zuma’s increased spending plan:
The ANC’s reaction to news that we are in recession - a pretty shocking one at that with GDP coming in at -6,4% - has been to say that spending on infrastructure and public works must be accelerated. Which is all good and well, [...]

Afrodissident says yes:
Everybody was watching to see whether he would keep or replace Mbeki’s finance minister, Trevor Manuel, associated with the conservative economic policies adopted by the government since 1996 (policies that were good for the market, but bad for the country’s poor majority). In the end, Zuma appointed a new finance minister, Pravin Gordhan [...]