SA Politics Thread Part 10 : The GNU Has Crashed

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If we're going to blame someone for the tariffs then we have to blame the ANC. The State has set a high target for inflation and has deliberately manipulated our currency for exports. This is easy to verify by just looking at old news articles.

It is the ANC government that has caused our trade balance with the USA to be in a massive surplus, which was subsequently used to calculate the tariff rate.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Trump was going to tariff us regardless. He didn't give a toss about every other country he imposed it on, but obviously SA is still the darling of the world and has special status...
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Yeah, I think people are conflating issues here. Tariffs and removal from AGOA were a certainty. Even the complete scrapping of AGOA remains a probability rather than possibility in my opinion.
 
Hush9300 said:
Yeah, I think people are conflating issues here. Tariffs and removal from AGOA were a certainty. Even the complete scrapping of AGOA remains a probability rather than possibility in my opinion.
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Hell hath no fury like a genocided farmer. Trump became so angry that he applied tariffs on every country.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Interesting, DA may have to support the remaining 2 bills to remain in GNU.

It's effectively to allocate departmental budgets etc.

Round 2 of negotiations...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1909227733407629498
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So I think the DA is largely forced to support the bills if they want to get funding for their departments for the financial year, and of course its different to the fiscal framework in so much as this is slicing that financial pie up rather than determining how that financial pie is obtained.
 
ToxicBunny said:
So I think the DA is largely forced to support the bills if they want to get funding for their departments for the financial year, and of course its different to the fiscal framework in so much as this is slicing that financial pie up rather than determining how that financial pie is obtained.
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Either way it will be spun. If they support it then it will be that they voted against the framework but now want a piece of the pie. They have no choice but to push for the reforms that they wanted, it's the only thing that will give them back any leverage...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Either way it will be spun. If they support it then it will be that they voted against the framework but now want a piece of the pie. They have no choice but to push for the reforms that they wanted, it's the only thing that will give them back any leverage...
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Its pretty standard for political discourse in this country.

The DA are bashed no matter what they do really.

If they do vote for the 2 bills, it will be spun that the ANC won the battle and the DA are pussies basically, even if that isn't the reality (it could of course be the reality, but we'll never know for sure)
 
So for every 2 ANC bills the DA 'has' to vote for, the ANC 'has' to vote for one DA bill?
 
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