{"id":92814,"date":"2025-11-12T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/steenhuisen-da-supports-some-mtbps-measures"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:28:46","slug":"steenhuisen-da-supports-some-mtbps-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/steenhuisen-da-supports-some-mtbps-measures","title":{"rendered":"Steenhuisen DA Supports Some MTBPS Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Unlike the contestation which characterised the main budget earlier this year, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is backing the lower inflation target, the debt ceiling and the early rewards from spending reviews announced in Wednesday\u2019s medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS).<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Enoch Godongwa\u2019s statement received broad support from Government of National Unity (GNU) partners, a move which the DA\u2019s John Steenhuisen has described as a sign that the coalition is maturing.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s weighed in on some of Wednesday\u2019s announcements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some of the measures announced today are going to show the green shoots of growth, and start to drive down the cost of living that affects so many South Africans, and which is pillar two of our Statement of Intent, and so I am pretty positive about the future and that\u2019s why we\u2019re very supportive of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steenhuisen said that valuable lessons had been learned from the false starts at tabling a national budget that met consensus in February, March and again in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there\u2019s been a settling down in the last three months. 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