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  "id": 15781712,
  "title": "How it started and how it’s going: a quick intro to the mini-budget",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/how-it-started-and-how-its-going-a-quick-intro-to-the-mini-budget",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T12:21:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-20-how-it-started-and-how-its-going-a-quick-intro-to-the-mini-budget/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Wednesday’s mini-budget will give South Africans an overview of government spending for the first half of the year and indicate whether any of the financial targets set in the annual budget in February need to be altered or updated.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}