{"id":18654,"date":"2026-10-20T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:34:57","slug":"what-the-mtbps-means-for-growth-jobs-and-the-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=18654","title":{"rendered":"What the MTBPS means for growth, jobs and the rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign for Free Expression\u2019s Nicole Fritz explains the urgent court challenge seeking to open a secret trial involving former senior State Security Agency officials to public scrutiny. Rethink Your Drink\u2019s Kashifa Ancer makes the case for a minimum alcohol price, with some heavy drinkers currently paying as little as R1.53 per standard drink. Nedbank senior economist Isaac Matshego looks at what the mid-term budget statement means for jobs, growth and the rand. And JustMoney\u2019s Erica Liebenberg unpacks a new survey finding that 65% of South Africans are struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Guests on today\u2019s show:<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Fritz: Executive director, Campaign for Free Expression<br \/>Kashifa Ancer: Project lead, Rethink Your Drink<br \/>Isaac Matshego: Senior economist, Nedbank<br \/>Erica Liebenberg: Head of communications, JustMoney<\/p>\n<p>                        #MTBPS #means #growth #jobs #rand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. Campaign for Free Expression\u2019s Nicole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1737,310,1511,23278,1648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}