The budget impasse is an example of a profound leadership failure — nothing new to ordinary South Africans, but tragic nonetheless.
SA is firmly in coalition terrain and a contested budget is a new path being traversed by the National Treasury, the ANC and parliament, yet it is clear that MPs from more than one party did not have a firm grip on the process they were participating in this week. ..
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