The African National Congress (ANC) says its caucus in parliament reserves the right to consider their positions on certain Budgets after Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen said his party may not support the Budgets of what he says are compromised ANC ministers.

Steenhuisen addressed the media in Cape Town and announced that his party would be withdrawing from the National Dialogue announced recently by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

[WATCH] “It is the Democratic Alliance that went abroad to the United States to complain about these redress policies and lobby other like-minded right-wing organisations in the U.S., not the ANC,” says ANC Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri. pic.twitter.com/5N5ag4Qr49

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Steenhuisen says Ramaphosa concocted a reason to remove Deputy Minister Andrew Whitfield who had travelled to the US as part of a DA delegation without the president’s authorization.

Steenhuisen earlier said Ramaphosa had 48 hours to fire what he called compromised ministers such as Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane and Human Settlements Minister, Thembi Simelane.

[LIVE NOW] ANC Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri says the ball is in the Democratic Alliance’s court to decide whether they want to be part of the government of national unity or an opposition party within the executive. pic.twitter.com/xcxCwp5op6

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ANC reacts to DA’s ultimatum to President Ramaphosa: