The Democratic Alliance has launched a nationwide petition challenging the proposed VAT increase, arguing that South Africa's ...

Treasury and the GNU will have a big job to change Budget 2025 into a budget all parties approve of, especially if the VAT increase is off the table.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. The Democratic Alliance is learning the hard way that before rushing into nuptials with the African National Congress it should have remembered the other meaning of ...

CAPE TOWN - The 2025 budget postponement was met with shock and criticism. It was due to GNU partners being at loggerheads ...

Instead of stability, this uneasy marriage has brought infighting, conflicting policies and paralysis at the highest levels.

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party ("MK Party") strongly condemns the unprecedented postponement of the national budget, a move that exposes the deep fractures within the DA-led coalition government, the ...

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The recent postponement of South Africa’s national budget speech marks a defining moment in the country’s financial and governance framework. This delay, the first under the Government of National ...

Gayton McKenzie gives behind-the-scenes insights into the stance of political parties on VAT and the postponement of the Budget speech.

South Africa's budget delay highlights growing tensions in the coalition government, threatening fiscal stability and unity.

Melanie Punz lives in Austria and has been using GNU/Linux and free software enthusiastically for almost twenty years now. Melanie has several years of experience in legal counsel in the international ...

THE cancellation of the Budget Speech, for the first time in almost 31 years of self-rule, highlights the cracks within the coalition at the helm of South Africa. It is the latest turbulence to derail ...