Her comments follow the Economic Freedom Fighters’ call for Godongwana to resign after a court ruling, which suspended the Value-Added Tax (VAT) increase, preventing the hike from taking effect on Thursday.   

The Western Cape Province, High Court issued the ruling on Sunday, also overturning the National Assembly’s resolution that had adopted the report from the Joint Standing Committee on Finance regarding the Fiscal Framework and Revenue proposals earlier in April.   

Godongwana had earlier withdrawn the VAT hike. Bhengu-Motsiri says they welcome the court ruling.   

She says, "Any resignation that gets occasioned must be triggered by a particular policy, a particular law or a particular ethical standard. So we are not certain that is correct because there’s never been a time where the current minister of finance did disobey his oath to office unless we can be presented with that particular thing."   

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