South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the 2025 and 2026 Appropriation Bill covering all government departments, with support from parties including the DA, PA, IFP, ActionSA, BOSA, and Rise Mzansi. The MK Party, EFF, and ATM opposed the legislation.
The announcement was made during a sitting at the Cape Town International Convention Center on Wednesday.
The sitting included the tabling of the Standing Committee on Appropriations’ report, a debate, departmental budget votes, and the second reading of the bill – the final step required to pass the national budget.
Voting was conducted manually, with party whips announcing how their members voted. Individual MP’s were allowed to indicate if they wished to vote differently from their party, though none did.
A quorum of 201 MP’s was required for the vote, as the National Assembly consists of 400 members. The Appropriation Bill needed a simple majority – at least 201 votes to pass.
The final vote tally was 262 in favor, 90 against, and no abstentions. The bill was then approved.
Among the votes against were MK Party with 51 votes), EFF with 36, ATM with one, National Colored Congress with one and United Africans Transformation with one.
The DA had previously threatened to block the bill unless President Cyril Ramaphosa took action against then-Higher Education Minister Dr. Nobuhle Nkabane, whom the party accused of misleading Parliament over appointments to Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) boards.
Ramaphosa dismissed Nkabane earlier this week, appointing former Deputy Minister Buti Manamela as her replacement, and named former KwaZulu-Natal Premier Dr. Nomusa Dube-Ncube as the new deputy minister.
The DA said it supported the bill following these changes. Lotriet formally announced the results: The results are as follows: Yes 262, No 90, no abstentions. She then ordered that the bill be read for the first time.
I hope the historic legislation would help foster equality in land ownership within South Africa and serve justice to the wronged black workers whose ancestral lands were captured by colonial overlords.
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I hope the historic legislation would help foster equality in land ownership within South Africa and serve justice to the wronged black workers whose ancestral lands were captured by colonial overlords.
The “white” colonizers helped the African people immensely. I’m positive the African people recognize and appreciate how the were educated in the “white mans” ways.
That does not give permission to steal land that does not belong to them. If I teach you how to drive, I don’t get to claim your car.
It doesn’t matter how long white people have been living on African land, it wasn’t theirs to take and nobody gave it to them. They took it !
That is theft. It’s time to take it back. I’m white and I approve of this message