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The GNU is a bit like a movie about the adventures of a couple forced to remain together against their will — can the ANC and DA create a happy ending?
19 September 2024 - 05:01
The ANC and the DA are in a bind: each desperately needs the other, yet they are more often than not at daggers drawn in the newly forged government of national unity (GNU).
President Cyril Ramaphosa, at a media briefing on Friday, repeated many times that the alternative to the GNU was “too ghastly to contemplate”. The day before, DA leader John Steenhuisen, at the Cape Town Press Club, used the same line to describe a GNU-less South Africa. ..
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