{"id":26112,"date":"2026-03-01T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26112"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:28:46","slug":"sa-budget-chief-resigns-after-helping-stabilise-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26112","title":{"rendered":"SA budget chief resigns after helping stabilise debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of South Africa\u2019s budget office resigned last week, after helping National Treasury stabilise public debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edgar Sishi handed in his resignation on Wednesday (25 February) \u2013 the day of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana\u2019s budget speech \u2013 and plans to take up a role at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the information isn\u2019t public.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>Budget in a minute<br \/>Small victories, big message: SA\u2019s fiscal fortunes are shifting<br \/>SA public finances \u2018emerging\u00a0from the fiscal wilderness\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Treasury confirmed in an emailed response to questions that Sishi will leave the institution at the end of March.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Godongwana announced last week that South Africa\u2019s ratio of debt to GDP will stabilise for the first time in almost two decades this fiscal year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That has created space for National Treasury to support anaemic economic growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s also strengthened the case for further upgrades to the country\u2019s credit rating \u2013 almost a decade after it was first cut to junk.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Government wants a \u2018credible and principle-led\u2019 fiscal anchor<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sishi has been a central figure in the compilation of South Africa\u2019s fiscal framework.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#budget #chief #resigns #helping #stabilise #debt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of South Africa\u2019s bud&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3125,1088,575,1025,2088,10148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}