House Chair, we have a right to be angry as South Africans. We are budgeting in a time of austerity and state capture; state capture which was brought to us by an ANC government. The pleas to trust those who put our nation into this mess, to be the ones to get us out of it, are noted but are frankly, not credible.
The Division of Revenue Amendment Bill makes this abundantly clear. Austere expenditure ceilings have affected government departments in every sphere and every area of service delivery.
In the year 2015, more than half of the population earned below R992 per month and these trends have only been exacerbated by rising living costs as well as the increase in VAT.