Amidst a lot of local chaos we have a massive week ahead of us. The Budget speech will be given by Pravin Gordhan later this week. The attention of every rating agency under the sun will be focused on every word that he delivers. For the most part I would normally suggest that it’s only the agencies that should actually listen to the budget in the first place but this year things seem to be very different indeed. We find ourselves (South Africa), as one could call, at a tipping point. We have endured a torrid time of late in the eyes of international investors and agencies. We have ourselves to blame for the most part. It’s actually a bit of a tragedy that the Rainbow Nation has managed to b