Leaders of South Africa’s DA to Meet on Future of ANC Coalition
The finance ministry — led by the ANC’s Enoch Godongwana — in March proposed a budget that will see value-added tax increased by 50 basis points in this fiscal year and next, which the DA rejected.
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Leaders of South Africa’s Democratic Alliance will meet to discuss its involvement in the nation’s coalition government after lawmakers passed a budget framework that second-biggest party opposed.
“The federal executive will meet tonight or tomorrow morning, and we will decide on that,” party spokesman Willie Aucamp said in an interview on Newzroom Afrika. “We cannot enable the ANC to keep on with the looting,” he said, referring to the African National Congress, the country’s largest party.