Budget 2026: Budgets allocate money. Accountability delivers results.
By Lungelo Dlamini:
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivering the budget speech. (Image: Parliament)
The 2026 Budget Speech painted a picture of recovery, reform, and renewed discipline. From health and education to infrastructure, policing, social grants, and economic growth, the government set out ambitious plans for the year ahead. Billions have been allocated across departments.
Yet for many South Africans citizen, daily life still feels marked by overcrowded hospitals, struggling schools, unreliable infrastructure, rising crime, and limited economic opportunity.
The central question is no longer what is promised. It is whether those promises are matched by visible accountability and measurable results. In health, more than R280 billion has been all...
