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News24 | Budget standoff: DA fights ANC to prevent VAT hike as finance committee starts deliberating
The ANC didn’t agree to the DA’s proposals on the Budget. Now, DA MP and finance spokesperson Mark Burke said he has been mandated to try and amend the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals so that there isn’t a 0.5 percentage point VAT increase.
The ANC didn’t agree to the DA’s proposals on the budget Now, DA MP and finance spokesperson Mark Burke said he has been mandated to try and amend the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals so that there isn’t a 0.5 percentage point VAT increase.
Having never completed school herself, Goodness Mntambo’s greatest dream was for her children to get a good education. And after her death in 2021, just weeks before her youngest was scheduled to start college, her sister, Celiwe Mntambo, beat all odds to make sure that dream did not die with her.
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An awaiting trial prisoner has been positively identified as one of the armed suspects linked to the fatal killing of six patrollers and attempted murder of six others at Marry Me informal settlement in Soshanguve, the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday.
Former president Jacob Zuma has suffered an eighth legal loss in his campaign to privately prosecute State advocate Billy Downer and News24 reporter Karyn Maughan, after the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected his latest appeal application – with costs.