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MINI BUDGET: TABLING & PROCESSING TIMELINE CLARIFIED
- 23 September 2025
- Parliament
- SA Legal Academy
Parliament has issued a media statement announcing that:
- Finance Minister Enoch Godongana is scheduled to table the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on 12 November 2025, but that
- the National Assembly will only ‘consider and adopt’ it on 13 January 2026, ‘following the conclusion of the necessary committee processes’.
The statement follows a misleading Eyewitness News (EWN) report since corrected.
According to Parliament’s press release, the late introduction of the 2025/26 Budget in May 2025 made it necessary to adjust the process of tabling, considering and adopting the MTBPS – which traditionally begins in October each year and is usually concluded before Parliament rises for the long festive season recess. By ‘accommodating … unavoidable delays without compromising scrutiny, accountability or public participation’, the adjusted timeline is apparently still in line with ‘constitutional requirements’.
A National Treasury fact sheet published in October 2024 describes the MTBPS as follows:
- its purpose is to:
- ‘set out … (a) policy framework for the Budget … presented every February’
- ‘update National Treasury’s economic forecasts’
- estimate ‘budget numbers for the medium term’
- adjust the budgets of government departments for the current financial year, and
- make ‘emergency changes to spending’
- it should be tabled:
- three months before the upcoming national Budget, and
- after Parliament’s committees have scrutinised departmental annual reports (collectively referred to as the budget review and recommendation report process), and
- its intention is to set ‘the tone for the fiscal framework’ (‘broad budgetary aggregates of total revenue, expenditure and borrowing for a given year’) as well as the next national budget.
Please click the links below for more information:
- parliamentary media statement
- EWN report
- National Treasury MTBPS fact sheet
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