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South Africa's 2025 budget: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana forced to delay it

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South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana forced to postpone unveiling of national budget.

Coalition partners derailed his budget after opposing his plan to raise VAT .

The increase would have seen the prices of goods go up at a time when South Africans are hard-hit by cost-of-living crisis.

Failure to table the budget has never happened since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 .

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