/ 24 April 2025

VAT battle is over but coalition crisis continues

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Budget botch: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana (Dwayne Senior/Getty Images)

Meetings are due in coming days and weeks to undo the damage after the finance minister caved on the tax increase

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