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Budget 2025 passed, but DA and EFF vow to challenge fiscal adoption in court

Budget 2025 passed: 194 votes for; 182 votes against

As the Budget passed, the GNU may have ended. The Budget passed with 194 votes for and 182 against.

South Africa: DA Challenges Passage Of Budget Over VAT Hike

By Enyichukwu Enemanna John Steenhuisen, leader of South Africa’s second-largest party in the coalition government, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has instituted legal action before the Western Cape High Court challenging the passage of the 2025 budget. The national budget was passed in parliament on Wednesday after facing opposition from different parties, with 194 members voting in favour of the fiscal framework and 182 against it. The DA is op…

The DA will continue to put the interests of South Africans first and that is why the party is now fighting the approved national budget in court.

Deputy President Mashatile Defends Budget Vote Against Opposition Criticism

Deputy President Paul Mashatile has defended the controversial National Budget approval, declaring that any fiscal plan ignoring marginalised communities “is not a budget that is for the people and must therefore be rejected.” Speaking virtually at the Gauteng Investment Conference in Melrose Arch Thursday, Mashatile responded to critics a day after Parliament narrowly passed the fiscal framework with 194 votes for and 182 against. “Fundamentall…