{"id":838290,"date":"2025-04-01T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/mkp-wants-probe-into-aborted-budget-speech-spending\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:11:58","slug":"mkp-wants-probe-into-aborted-budget-speech-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/mkp-wants-probe-into-aborted-budget-speech-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"MKP wants probe into aborted budget speech spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke\u2019s office has confirmed receiving the uMkhonto weSizwe Party\u2019s (MKP) request to probe budget speech spending. The budget speech, initially scheduled for February 21, was haphazardly postponed due to disagreements over a proposed two percentage point value-added tax increase from 15% to 17%. MKP MPs have argued that the abrupt postponement cost the [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/mkp-wants-probe-into-aborted-budget-speech-spending\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mkp-wants-probe-into-aborted-budget-speech-spending\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tshwarelo Mogakane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke\u2019s office has confirmed receiving the uMkhonto weSizwe Party\u2019s (MKP) request to probe budget speech spending. The budget speech, initially scheduled for February 21, was haphazardly postponed due to disagreements over a proposed two percentage point value-added tax increase from 15% to 17%. MKP MPs have argued that the abrupt postponement cost the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3151,192,91],"tags":[6870,5583],"class_list":{"0":"post-838290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-probe","8":"category-sports","9":"category-wants","10":"tag-probe","11":"tag-wants"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}