6 days ago
South African Coalition Skirts Crisis to Pass National Budget
South Africa's National Assembly gave a final stamp of approval to the national budget, defusing the latest crisis to embroil President Cyril Ramaphosa's 10-party administration.
The Democratic Alliance, the coalition's second-largest member, had threatened to withhold support for allocations to government departments headed by ministers implicated in wrongdoing, potentially disrupting the entire budgeting process.
