# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana says he is beginning to win the battle within the cabinet to support fiscal consolidation. Consolidated government expenditures in the minister’s amended budget have gone down from 2.60-trillion to 2.58-trillion-rand. Godongwana says the government is spending 1.2-billion-rand servicing debt. He says fiscal consolidation is a difficult exercise that requires the National Treasury to get political support for its revised spending plans, which now need to accommodate the absence of a value-added tax hike.
Minister Godongwana says fiscal consolidation requires political support