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During an ANC and DA meeting on Friday, the DA is believed to have expressed its 'sincere' commitment to remain within the GNU. On Saturday Helen Zille, the DA's federal council chair announced that the DA had to file a supplementary affidavit to the Western Cape High Court asking that the court must specifically issue an order to stop the VAT increase.

During an ANC and DA meeting on Friday, the DA is believed to have expressed its 'sincere' commitment to remain within the GNU. On Saturday Helen Zille, the DA's federal council chair announced that the DA had to file a supplementary affidavit to the Western Cape High Court asking that the court must specifically issue an order to stop the VAT increase.

The much-anticipated meeting between the ANC and DA, the two biggest political parties in the Government of National Unity, proceeded smoothly on Friday, 25 April, and was concluded in just two hours.

The meeting follows a midnight deal on Wednesday that saw the National Treasury drop the 0.5 percentage point VAT increase and express its desire to reach an out-of-court settlement with the DA over the issue. The DA took the VAT increase to court, which it claimed led to the tax hike being scrapped.

Inside source

Daily Maverick understands from an inside source that during Friday's meeting, the parties discussed a possible new fiscal path. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is now expected to table a revised fiscal framework -- it has to be tabled in Parliament's Finance Portfolio Committee and then go to the Appropriations Committee.

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