News24 | DA supports Budget 3.0, despite Whitfield axing

DA leader John Steenhuisen.

Despite having one of its deputy ministers in the government of national unity (GNU) axed, the DA has given its full support to ensuring the adoption of the national Budget.

However, it has given President Cyril Ramaphosa 48 hours to prove that the party is not standing alone as one “that can be trusted.”

During Thursday’s debate on the Division of Revenue Bill in Parliament, DA leader John Steenhuisen said: “The ball is now in the president’s court, and he must show us now that he’s a man of his word. It would be very easy for a party that had been treated with such disdain by a coalition partner to vote against this bill.

“But precisely because we are nothing like the ANC, the DA will always put South Africa’s interests over narrow party interests. We will vote for this bill, not for politics, but for South Africa.”

Steenhuisen added that the DA wanted to demonstrate to its GNU partners that it was a reliable party.

“When we say we’re going to do something, we will do it,” he said.

On Wednesday, Ramaphosa axed Andrew Whitfield, the deputy minister of trade, industry and competition, who is also a DA member.

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