The government is aiming at seven percent growth in order to heat up the economy to meet its New Growth Path promise to create million new jobs by 2020.

Ms Marcus said South Africa was in a better position than a lot of the world's advanced economies in terms of its debt to GDP ratio (43 percent), but faced "rising threats" to inflation. These included the general increase in commodity prices, including oil and food prices.

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