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The IFP's betrayal: a call for accountability
The Mercury
|April 17, 2025
I WRITE as a disappointed, disgruntled IFP member. Current leaders of the IFP are playing with the lives of the citizens of this beautiful country. There is no consistency in their policy.
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When the minister of finance announced a 2% VAT increase, the IFP correctly shouted to the world that it would not support the increase. I felt proud, albeit for a short while.
But sadly, the IFP went on to swallow the ANC's view that a 0.5% increase this year is okay. Did the IFP analyse the ramifications of the effect it will have on the poor people?
The price of food will spiral and other increases will come in many ways, thus forcing the poor to become beggars.
All the IFP ministers and deputy ministers who earn about R300 000 per month care less about how our people live. In order to save their jobs, they were forced to vote with the ANC.
This story is from the April 17, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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