{"id":1968,"date":"2026-01-21T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:56:11","slug":"public-called-to-share-ideas-for-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Public called to share ideas for 2026 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has encouraged South Africans to share their suggestions on the 2026 Budget.<\/p>\n<p>The National Budget seeks to maintain a balance between South Africa\u2019s fiscal framework, fund the priorities of the seventh administration, while mitigating the funding requirements impact on the poor and the middle-income household.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to strike a balance between growing the economy and supporting the vulnerable amid limited resources.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister will deliver the National Budget Speech on 25 February 2026, where he will outline all the financial, economic and social commitments government will prioritise in its planned expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>People may submit views on government spending priorities; addressing a large budget deficit; stabilising State-owned entity finances; energy and water investments; tax policies; debt sustainability; municipal finances and\u00a0any other economy-related topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Godongwana looks forward to your contributions,\u201d National Treasury said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions can be sent to National Treasury using this link for Budget Tips:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=jzRFGrQCmk-nqHeG9t0yRTqZ86WzI7JHvRvFVz0vJUhUM1FHWEc0MU1GWjc0RFhHQTNZVEQwM0Y5RS4u&amp;route=shorturl\">https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=jzRFGrQCmk-nqHeG9t0yRTqZ86WzI7JHvRvFVz0vJUhUM1FHWEc0MU1GWjc0RFhHQTNZVEQwM0Y5RS4u&amp;route=shorturl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised to keep contributions concise and to the point, not longer than 300 words. &#8211;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-icons inline-flex items-center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has encouraged South Africans to share their suggestions on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixleyindependent.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}