Scrapping medical aids and removing medical tax credits in the first draft of the medium-term development plan (MTDP) was a dire warning for the DA that its coalition with the ANC would be a fraught one. 

The last time DA leader John Steenhuisen met President Cyril Ramaphosa was in November last year. The discussion was brief and pointed — which pretty much sums up the nature of the relationship between the ANC and the DA in the GNU since then. ..

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