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Former DA leader Tony Leon has harsh words for the Electoral Commission of South Africa and praise for ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula following the tumultuous election results.
As he heads off to join the DA’s post-election negotiating team, he tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts From the Edge that the constitution wasn’t designed to deal with the kind of collapse in electoral support for the ruling party that happened last week.
It gives political leaders precious little time to stitch together a government of different parties that can guarantee long-term stability. The Germans take months. The Belgians once took more than a year. We have two weeks.
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PODCAST: And what rough beast next?
Former DA leader Tony Leon has harsh words for the Electoral Commission of South Africa and praise for ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula following the tumultuous election results.
As he heads off to join the DA’s post-election negotiating team, he tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts From the Edge that the constitution wasn’t designed to deal with the kind of collapse in electoral support for the ruling party that happened last week.
It gives political leaders precious little time to stitch together a government of different parties that can guarantee long-term stability. The Germans take months. The Belgians once took more than a year. We have two weeks.
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DUMA GQUBULE: ANC should form coalition with EFF and IFP as prelude to overtures to MK party
PETER ATTARD MONTALTO: ANC should snap out of denial and hold its nose in DA alliance
ALEXANDER PARKER: Who really takes the risk in a grand coalition?
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