No one at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has been willing to confirm that the following are a selection of what are humorously termed “offal-cuts” of the 2002 Budget speech — as presented to Parliament by Minister of Finance Trevor Manual. However the Mail & Guardian is now in possession of five crumpled-up sheets of A4 found by a dedicated Robert
M&G reader currently living behind the official MOF dustbin. This M&G reader often investigates this dustbin in search of recent copies of this newspaper. The five crumpled sheets were discovered the day before last week’s Budget speech.
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