In this week’s Parliament: Week in Review with Tara Roos, she and Lester Kiewit unpack the big stories shaping the legislative agenda. Topping headlines is the Finance Minister’s unexpected withdrawal of the proposed VAT increase – a decision that offers temporary relief to consumers but raises pressing questions about timing, process, and the R75 billion hole now left in the fiscus. As Parliament scrambles to pass new legislation to lock in the VAT rate and revise government spending, all eyes are on whether the law will catch up to the politics in time. Meanwhile, SCOPA turns up the heat on the State Information Technology Agency, exposing deep governance failures and operational breakdowns that threaten national security and basic service delivery. And in a surprise twist from the floor, a provocative question from the EFF challenges the President on asylum policy and historical justice, asking whether South Africa should offer refugee status to African American farmers – a query met with legal restraint and political silence.

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