南非财政部长伊诺克·戈东瓜纳表示，非洲已加强财政纪律，现在必须提振经济增长。
Africa has strengthened fiscal discipline and now must lift economic growth, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said.
“我们仍在增长方面苦苦挣扎，”他周四在开普敦接受采访时说。此前一天，他提交了一份广受好评的中期预算案，其中公布了新的财政规则，并显示债务正在下降。
“We’re still struggling with growth,” he said in an interview in Cape Town on Thursday, a day after delivering a well-received medium-term budget that unveiled new fiscal rules and showed debt declining.
尽管债务和预算指标有所改善，但由于伊朗战争带来的压力，南非财政部将今年的增长预测从此前的1.6%下调至1.2%。
While debt and budget metrics improved, the Treasury downgraded its growth forecast to 1.2% this year from a previous estimate of 1.6% because of pressures from the Iran war.
预计经济将逐步提速，到2029年达到2%的增长——这仍低于在持续贫困和超过30%的失业率上取得实质性改善所需的水平。
The economy is expected to gradually pick up steam and reach 2% growth in 2029 – still below the level needed to make a meaningful dent in grinding poverty and an unemployment rate of more than 30%.
戈东瓜纳表示，在经历前总统雅各布·祖马丑闻缠身的执政时期多年的疲弱增长和不断膨胀的赤字之后，公共财政已重回正轨，除此之外，政府还必须将财政成果转化为更好的社会成效。
Godongwana said that beyond getting public finances back on track — after years of feeble growth and ballooning deficits under the scandal-marred rule of former President Jacob Zuma — the government must translate fiscal gains into better social outcomes.
戈东瓜纳的中期预算强调了加快基础设施投资的努力，未来三年资本支出将成为预算中增长最快的部分，以帮助经济增长。
Godongwana’s mid-term budget highlighted efforts to accelerate infrastructure investment, with capital spending becoming the fastest-growing component of the budget over the next three years, to help grow the economy.
“如果我们已经实现了财政可持续性，那么第二组问题将是在设定目标之前说‘我们如何衡量绩效’，”戈东瓜纳说。“我们必须衡量绩效，尤其是在社会经济方面。”
“If we’ve achieved fiscal sustainability, the second set off issues is going to be saying ‘how do we measure performance,’ before we can set a goal,” Godongwana said. “We’ve got to measure performance, particularly on the social economy.”