'PAY BACK THE MONEY'

THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) want Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to repay the R2.3 million wasted on his ill-fated Budget Speech in February.

- BY KAMOGELO MOICHELA AND BONGANI HANS

The Red Berets MP Omphile Maotwe made the call almost a week after Godongwana and Parliament suffered legal costs after the EFF and the Democratic Alliance (DA) took Godongwana to the Western Cape High Court over his first attempt to increase VAT by 0.5 percent.

Maotwe, whose party had called for Godongwana to step down due to the Budget delivery fiasco, described the R2.3 million, which was spent preparing for the budget, as wasteful expenditure.