Another GNU flashpoint looms on ANC’s Transnet Bailout call, DA says “inconceivable”

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After narrowly averting an implosion of South Africa’s Government of National Unity over the president’s signing of the EWC Act, another major issue looms with the ANC’s demand SOE Transnet gets an Eskom-type bailout. DA spokesman on finance Mark Burke explains why this is “inconceivable”. If so, a crisis looms for next month’s National Budget, which needs the DA’s support to be enacted. Burke spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.
28 Jan 2025 5AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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