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Finance minister Enoch Godongwana South Africa’s national budget, which was meant to be tabled on Wednesday, has been postponed until further notice because of a lack of agreement, the speaker of the national assembly said on Wednesday. Speaker Thoko Didiza told MPs that budget proceedings had never been postponed like this in the three decades since the end of apartheid. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana had been scheduled to deliver the budget speech at 2pm. This year the ANC will need the support of other parties to pass the budget after it lost its parliamentary majority in an election last year. Read: Sita under fire: parliament launches probe into agency’s governance crisis Its main partner in the coalition government that emerged last year, the Democratic Alliance, has called a press conference, where it says it will give its position on the budget process. — Kopano Gumbi, Wendell Roelf, Tannur Anders, Sfundo Parakozov and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, (c) 2025 Reuters Get breaking news from TechCentral on WhatsApp. Sign up here . Don’t miss: Ramaphosa’s digital dreams to butt heads with fiscal reality?
