{"id":15079,"date":"2025-11-12T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-deputy-president-promise-budget-statement-will-go-on-without-glitches\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:26","slug":"sa-deputy-president-promise-budget-statement-will-go-on-without-glitches","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-deputy-president-promise-budget-statement-will-go-on-without-glitches\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Deputy President promise budget statement will go on without glitches\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Deputy President Paul Mashatile has assured South Africans that the mini budget that will be tabled by Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday will go smoothly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mashatile was responding to oral questions in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Earlier this year, the adoption of the budget was delayed due to disagreements amongst the Government of National Unity (GNU) partners over the proposed 2% Value Added Tax (VAT) increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But Mashatile says the Medium-Term Policy Budget Statement will be presented and adopted as planned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mashatile is confident that the scenes that played out in parliament earlier will not repeat themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The February budget that was tabled by Godongwana was only adopted in March due to disagreements over the proposed 2% VAT hike causing and unprecedented delay, which resulted in ructions amongst GNU partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mashatile says this time around the Medium Term Policy Budget Statement is expected to go on without glitches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15080,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-15079","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Mashatile assured South Africans that the mini budget will go smoothly ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19471,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15079\/revisions\/19471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}