Budget postponement sparks political dispute among GNU parties

Why South Africa cannot let this crisis go to waste

The postponement of the 2025 budget has created a rare opportunity for the GNU to design more democratic budget processes and develop lasting fiscal solutions

Neil de Beer: De Ruyter & Eskom, Cyril & Trump, the GNU & VAT, Corné & the DA- and Cele’s crime legacy

In this latest edition of the Sunday Show, Neil de Beer slams ESKOM’s farcical explanation for how the country was plunged into Stage 6 Loadshedding overnight. He says the much-maligned former CEO André de Ruyter was right – and warns that the “litany of absolute destruction” continues. De Beer also gives the background to how South Africa narrowly escaping a 2% VAT hike after an hastily convened urgent Cabinet meeting resulted into the unpreced…

Budget postponement sparks political tussle among GNU parties

Post-Political Bureau statement on the national budget | South African Communist Party (SACP)

Sunday, 23 February 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) Political Bureau resolutely reaffirmed the Party’s uncompromising rejection of a Valued-Added Tax (VAT) increase and called upon the government to consider truly sustainable alternatives. These alternatives must include the allocation of sufficient resources to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to recover the R800 billion in tax revenue lost annually, thus ensuring adequ…

President Cyril Ramaphosa says budget speech postponement was not a crisis, but SA doesn't believe him

President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana after the first GNU budget speech was postponed to 21 March. SA reacted.