South Africa's 2025 Budget Speech has been postponed indefinitely due to disagreements among the GNU partners. The postponement was requested by the Executive, citing unresolved challenges. While the Finance Minister denied disagreements over the speech's content, Parliament acknowledged the unprecedented delay and confirmed the postponement.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula defended the postponement of the 2025 Budget Speech .African National Congress secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the country exceeded its borrowing capacity, and his party understood that the 2025 Budget Speech had to be postponed to fix some of the challenges the Government of National Unity partners raised.
“There's a whole lot of other challenges that are facing us. We have invested a lot in our discussion and believe our finance minister did well,” said Mbalula. At a media briefing held shortly after the postponement of the Budget Speech, Godongwana denied that the unprecedented delay was due to disagreements between the GNU partners.
“We must acknowledge that this is unprecedented, but as a Parliament, we realised that there would be no speech presented as the GNU Chief Whips asked for a postponement,” Didiza said.
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