The Democratic Alliance voted against the budget’s fiscal framework, opposing the proposed VAT increase, while the ANC and other parties secured its passage with support from ActionSA. The episode exposed competing economic priorities inside the governing coalition and showed that the ANC had to assemble support issue by issue. The tax dispute also became a struggle over who should bear the cost of funding public services. The vote did not dissolve the GNU, but it made the fragility of its parliamentary agreements visible.
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What did the DA do in the April 2025 budget dispute?
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The DA voted against the fiscal framework; the ANC assembled other support.