Parliamentary speaker Thoko Didiza announced on Wednesday afternoon that the budget speech has been “delayed indefinitely”, an unprecedented move in post-Apartheid SA.
The decision came after the government of national unity partners failed to agree on hiking the VAT rate from 15% to 17% as the budget proposed, and cabinet failed to sign it off on Wednesday.
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