SA’s government of national unity has been celebrated as if it is a silver bullet. But let’s not break out the bubbly just yet. Beneath this façade lies an arrangement about as sturdy as a house of cards in a wind tunnel.
Between the ANC’s family feuds, SA’s endless economic malaise and the rise of populist rage, the GNU might be less stable than some folk imagine, driven as they are by hope and a desire to maintain the integrity of the bubble they occupy...
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