22-05-2025
DA welcomes R1TN for infrastructure
JOHANNESBURG - The DA has welcomed the R1 trillion allocated for infrastructure development in order to grow the economy.
According to Willem Aucamp of the DA this is what the party has been fighting for.
"We have a budget that will that will have no VAT increases, no personal tax increases nor corporate VAT increase and that is what the democratic alliance has been advocating for. We do not have an income problem in this country but rather a expenditure problem," he says.
Aucamp further welcomed the minister decision to conduct a spending review.
He says this will allow for the government to review ghost workers within various departments but also look into projects that do not yield results.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the allocation during his Budget speech on Wednesday.
He said going forward, underperforming programmes will be closed as the 2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) budget process undergoes redesign.
New reforms will target infrastructure planning and implementation across provinces and municipalities, the minister explained.
"A data-driven approach to detecting payroll irregularities will replace the more costly method of using censuses.
