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Cape Town - South Africa's rising national government debt has even the finance minister flummoxed, it emerged on Wednesday.
Delivering his Budget speech, Pravin Gordhan told MPs that the debt was set to rise from R526bn at the end of 2008/09 to over R1.3 trillion in 2013/14.
"I don't know how many noughts those are," he confessed, holding his hands wide apart to indicate it was probably quite a lot.
But he did know what an incentive was, in the context of plans to boost automotive, clothing, and film and television production.
"The word incentive means we're giving money away," he explained.