GNU 2.0 loading — ‘You can’t be part of a government whose Budget you opposed,’ says Presidency

ANC you are powerless to do the right thing and save our poor by firing the useless and the corrupt cadres sinking our country ...because they're the only support you have left. So tragic for us all.

'The party’s second deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane said at a commemoration for Winnie Mandela: “In times of difficulty, the ANC may trip, but it will rise" This is the problem, policy led by financial/economic braindead individuals who will sing and dance but have no clue as to how the world works By the way what happened to the allegations against her from the Zondo commission ?

About time for the DA to tell the autocratic parties to take a hike. Now they can run for election without the taint of government corruption.

If the DA has any shred of respectability left they will take a walk. So many have told them that the ANC cannot be trusted. As for Bosa, Rise Mzansi and Action SA … They have just confirmed that Politicians cannot be trusted.

Could you not find a DA representative to give the other side of this story? Such a biased read, disappointing for this pivotal point in our path as a country.

Either agree or get off the bus......the road to self-destruction is paved with egos that fuel the fire of discontent.

Probably gonna be an unpopular view on here, but if the DA did try to bring in all the extra-budgetary issues into the process, they overplayed their hand. NHI is in the courts already, I'm sure Expropriation will be challenged as well (if not already?), ditto the BELA Act. So why try to force these issues using a budget process? Surely a more tactical approach, like speeding up port and rail concessions, the mining cadastre and public works programmes would have been better wins?

Probably gonna be an unpopular view on here, but if the DA did try to bring in all the extra-budgetary issues into the process, they overplayed their hand. NHI is in the courts already, I'm sure Expropriation will be challenged as well (if not already?), ditto the BELA Act. So why try to force these issues using a budget process? Surely a more tactical approach, like speeding up port and rail concessions, the mining cadastre and public works programmes would have been better wins?

The ANC has refused to share the load with the DA. The refusal to grant it any of the power portfolios which have been chronically mishandled by the ANC since 1994 is a case in point. With their scintillating credentials in running the Western Cape while being opposed on every front to extending this nationally, the DA was forced to finally confront a party which is riddled with corrupt and inept ministers. SA is bankrupt and has no future under ANC, EFF, or MK leadership however contrived.

Everybody and all political parties are losers here The establishment of GNU presented a unique opportunity for a reset of interparty politics to coalesce and to embark on a joint new economic and soco-political course, providing employment and improving the lives of the poorest But then the ANC, despite its election losses, went solo ignoring it's GNU partners The DA overplayed it's hand bringing external issues into the budget debate, knowing fully that this would jeopardize GNU Shame on you

What the DA and FF+ thought they would accomplish by teaming up with Marxists is a mystery to me. Especially with weaklings like Mashaba, Trollip, IFP being your battle mates.

The root cause of all this is the abject failure of the Ramaphosa regime, to take any action arising from the Zondo Commission and the July 2021 uprising, which the President himself labelled treasonous. The upshot is that virtually all the seriously delinquent members, are still in Parliament, in various parties including the ANC, MKK and the EFF. Root and branch rooting out of all the corrupt is now desperately needed as there are clear signs that the miscreants are re-grouping.

It's the ANC and it's unbelievably arrogant leadership that needs to come to terms with the fact that it lost the election, and accept that it cannot pass budgets without it's partners' support. It's the corrupt ANC that needs to understand that it cannot keep 'governing' the way it has for 30 years, because it has destroyed the country. DESTROYED! It's our spineless President that has to concede the above, and DO THE RIGHT THING.

Can DM please balance this article by publishing the DA side of the story with as much enthusiasm and detail as this ANC hymn sheet? It is also concerns me that members of the minor parties within the GNU who voted for the motion will pay a big price for deserting the people they represent. Anyone who saw Mashaba's SABC interview could not have failed to recognize how devious this green chameleon is. "I don't want a ministerial post, but if they force me I will unwillingly accept"

The quotes about the DA having won concessions is striking. I know it's not all they wanted, but this is often the way it is when bargaining. Everybody gets some of what they wanted. Particularly in coalitions. The DA surely could have done better PR on this: Look, we pushed back and won these concessions. And the public needs to understand that this is the way things go in coalitions - parties don't get to keep all their promises all the time.

The DA (and others) must catch a wake-up. If they don't like the budget then don't vote for it. Those that approve of it vote for it, those that don't vote against it. That's how parliament works. They were party to the negotiations and managed to get some major concessions, but acted like they were the ones who should get all that they wanted (despite being a minor partner - the ANC won almost twice the support that the DA did). They will find themselves with almost no power soon.