The Democratic Alliance has suggested cutting government budgets for advertising, travel and catering, and a freeze on hiring for non-essential positions to mak
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.But Malema has refuted this, saying: “No one is talking to us; there has never been any kind of engagement between the EFF and the ANC.
Malema said that even though specific conversations between the ANC and the EFF regarding the passing of the tweaked budget were not taking place, there was a “general conversation”. Like the DA, Malema is opposed to the idea of a VAT increase, believing the country should instead be capitalising on its mineral wealth.
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