By Dr. Bantu Wonder Mahlatsi
UAT President
The United African Transformation (UAT) rejects Appropriation Bill [B16–2025] for entrenching inequality, prioritizing debt over dignity, and imposing austerity on the poor.
R2.3 trillion allocated yet rural provinces remain starved, youth unemployed, and parastatals dismantled to serve foreign interests.
This is not economic policy. It’s a neoliberal attack designed by credit rating agencies and the IMF.
UAT calls for:
-A People’s Budget grounded in redistribution
-Investment in rural & township economies
-A Pan-African economic model that puts citizens before capital
This is a political act.
We will judge it politically.