The front-page lead in the Sunday Times was instructive: “ANC, DA gloves off in GNU dust-up” read the headline above a story about last Friday’s cabinet meeting in which, as one senior DA person quipped, “the ANC didn’t know what hit them”.

What had hit the ANC was a first significant demonstration of the fact that it is in a real coalition government, and that while it’s the biggest party, it doesn’t run the show any more...

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