South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana acknowledged that the economy is not growing fast enough.
South Africa's finance minister has boosted welfare payments to more than 18 million people in his last budget ahead of May's general election.
The governing African National Congress is facing a tough political challenge as it battles to maintain its outright majority in the May 29 poll.
Left-wing rival the Economic Freedom Fighters has already pledged to double payments to the less well off.
But harsh economic conditions leave the government little room for manoeuvre.
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