DA holds constructive meeting with the ANC [SOUND]

# The DA says it’s negotiating team met a delegation from the ANC in Johannesburg. The two party’s discussions follows in the wake of the recent dispute over the National Budget’s Fiscal Framework, which contains a one-percent VAT increase over two years. The DA’s Helen Zille says the party reiterated its position that a VAT increase is unaffordable in the absence of meaningful reform that will increase economic growth and create jobs: