The Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) have condemned the postponement of the 2025 Price range Speech, calling it a “disgraceful and shameful” transfer that simply reveals the incompetence of the Nationwide Treasury and the Authorities of Nationwide Unity (GNU).
In an official assertion launched on Wednesday, 19 February, the EFF accused the GNU of trying to “masks its inner contradictions, lack of course, and whole failure to offer financial management in a time of disaster.”
The occasion said: “The postponement of the funds isn’t an indication of democracy, maturity, or session—it’s a symptom of weak, indecisive, and opportunistic governance that has left tens of millions of South Africans unsure about their future.”
The EFF additional claimed that the Democratic Alliance (DA) and its allies had been making an attempt to spin their failure into a possibility to craft a “pro-growth funds.” The occasion dismissed this notion as “laughable, ahistorical, and outright deceitful,” including: “The DA, together with its neoliberal allies, has by no means cared concerning the pursuits of the poor and dealing class.”
EFF: VAT INCREASE NOT JUST TO BLAME FOR BUDGET POSTPONEMENT
In line with the EFF, the funds was already finalised, and the one cause for the postponement is “deep divisions inside the GNU, significantly over the reckless and disgraceful proposed enhance in Worth-Added Tax (VAT) from 15% to 17%.” The occasion alleged that the Nationwide Treasury and the DA-led “neoliberal faction” had been decided to “punish the poor whereas defending the white capitalist institution.”
“The so-called deliberations are nothing greater than a smokescreen for his or her anti-poor insurance policies,” the EFF claimed.
‘NO MEANINGFUL DEBATE IN THE GNU’
The occasion rejected claims that there was any real debate inside the GNU concerning the funds. “There is no such thing as a ‘session,’ no ‘consensus-building,’ and definitely no critical effort to craft another financial plan. The postponement is a determined ploy to pacify public outrage and create the phantasm that the GNU is listening, when the truth is it’s merely scrambling to safe the approval of its puppet masters within the non-public sector,” the assertion learn.
The EFF additionally accused the federal government of failing to prioritise insurance policies that may profit the poor, together with:
- Scrapping the VAT enhance.
- Increasing social spending to stimulate financial development.
- Rejecting privatisation and recapitalising state-owned enterprises.
- Implementing a wealth tax and cracking down on illicit monetary flows.
EFF CALLS FOR ACTION
The occasion urged South Africans to reject this pathetic try to spin failure as progress. It warned that the GNU was collapsing underneath its personal contradictions and known as for protests in opposition to austerity, VAT will increase, and continued financial mismanagement.
The EFF additionally known as on the ANC to desert its right-wing coalition companions and work with progressive forcesto reposition the Nationwide Treasury towards an agenda that prioritises the combat in opposition to poverty, unemployment, and inequality.
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