This comes the deal between the African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA) balances on a knife edge.
Pictures: The Citizen/Michel Bega and @Our_DA/Twitterdemands made it into the public domain, including the party wanting to be given at least 12 cabinet portfolios and the position of deputy president.On Thursday, a leaked letter from Ramaphosa to DA leader John Steenhuisen gave the country a peak into the negotiations process ahead of a cabinet announcement.
A deal is yet to be struck following the DA’s refusal to accept a deal put on the table by Ramaphosa, with the party telling the president that if he does not abide by the initial offer, the agreement between the DA and ANC is off.that despite the DA strongly condemning the ANC for its cadre deployment programme, the party insisted on appointing its own candidates for top posts in the GNU to ensure that they hired the best people for the job.
“The manner in which there was hubris, especially from a party which enjoys only 21% of electoral support. The kind of inconsistency and hypocrisy saying ‘we don’t actually want cadre deployment, but we want to be able to now because it suits us appoint the director generals’ which is basically cadre deployment by another name.”“A party which had an unassailable majority until now, doesn’t have it any more, is only at 39.
As South Africans, businesses and the country as a whole wait in anticipation for Ramaphosa to announce a new and inclusive Cabinet, the president in the letter also advised Steenhuisen of urgency, as the country could not continue with this “paralysis”, saying he intended to conclude all negotiations and consultation this week, while remaining open to further discussions.
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