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South Africa: ANC-DA Coalition Agreement Falls Apart | Report

9 months agoThu, 27 Jun 2024 16:59:50 GMT
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South Africa: ANC-DA Coalition Agreement Falls Apart | Report

The coalition agreement between South Africa’s two largest political parties, the ANC and DA, has collapsed, reported IOL.

Citing highly placed sources within the ANC, IOL reported that the power-sharing deal between the two parties is all but over following a series of disagreements and public spats between them.

As part of the Government of National Unity (GNU) arrangement, the ANC and DA attained about 60% of the seats in Parliament, with other parties also signing a document of intent.

However just a week after the coalition elected ANC’s Cyril Ramaphosa as president, the deal has reportedly collapsed due to a squabble over positions and ministries. Said a source:

It’s all but over. The ANC in general wasn’t very thrilled with a DA coalition. This has been made worse because of how the DA has conducted itself, particularly around leaking information and letters to the media.

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Another source who was privy to the high-level discussions told IOL that the ANC negotiating team was not happy with the DA’s posture. Said the source:

The way the ANC is being spoken to and how they (the DA) are coming across is a problem. The feeling is that we don’t need the DA to form a government, so they must not think they can dictate the terms to us.

Ramaphosa, in a letter to DA leader, John Steenhuisen, has accused the DA of jeopardising the formation of a unified government.

This follows reports that the Department of Trade and Industry portfolio is a source of tension in the ongoing negotiations between the DA and the ANC.

Helen Zille, the DA Federal Chairperson, recently wrote a letter to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, informing him that her party deserved a score of ministerial positions in the GNU.

Initially, the DA demanded 12 ministerial positions, including that of the deputy president, but after ironing out matters, the ANC resolved to give the DA six ministerial portfolios.

The ministerial portfolios offered to the DA included Home Affairs; Basic Education; Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC); Public Works and Infrastructure; Communications and Digital Technologies; and Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.

However, Steenhuisen wrote to Ramaphosa, stating that the six cabinet positions allocated to the DA were insufficient, and requesting two additional portfolios, for a total of eight ministerial posts.

Steenhuisen suggested that the portfolios of Sports, Arts and Culture, Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, or Public Service and Administration be allocated to them in addition to the six existing Cabinet portfolios.

In a final letter to Steenhuisen, Ramaphosa accused the DA of shifting the “goalposts” with their constantly changing demands. Said Ramaphosa:

I regard your approach in moving the goalposts as a continuation of what was articulated in your Federal Chair’s letter of 22 June 2024 on issues such as ‘sealed mandates’ of Ministries, through which the DA seemed to want to set up a parallel government that would operate outside the framework and parameters of the constitution-based method and protocols of running the government of the Republic of South Africa.

Ramaphosa said the DA’s latest proposals do not match the principles outlined in the Statement of Intent.

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28 Comments

Sonnyboy pilusa · 9 months ago
All parties that wants to serve the interests of South Africans are threads to ramaphosa and DA What Will happen if this coalition collapse
Time · 9 months ago
40% cannot do
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Jacob Zuma must be laughing
Tkt · 9 months ago
Ndipo pato tanga kufira SA ipapa, wait & see Zim blooming now. It is time to shine for Little Great Zimbabwe
Pot O Njere · 9 months ago
I feel there should have been a blue print to have been adopted prior going to elections in the case of ANC having majority share it had had to pick first in accordance of share of power, but vital ministries ie Home affairs, Defence, Agriculture and Industry, those should be left appolitical and let judge President to handle, if it's power sharing for effective fairness, the judge should appoint ministers concerned revolving them at every short term
nherera · 9 months ago
it can't hazviite akuyezi I donkey Le Nkomo kazilimi zonke pansi Le bhunu
Pot O Njere · 9 months ago
It's a rat race bafe2, the world is changing faster than an illusion, this takarwira nyika syndrome is retired but a foster growth attitude is key
kwachu · 9 months ago
The DA shouldn't have agreed in the first place...hudobi hwe ANC hurikubva ku Zanu pf varikuudzirwa be Anc nezanu mnje vachadya izvozvo
· 9 months ago
The DA has no problem here ,it's the ANC which is the problem as they still cling to their old ways of doing things, hiding vital information from the country's citizens, they are now accusing the DA of rushing to the media with whatever 5hey could have discussed together, if ever you have done anything business with whites they want transparency and do not hide anything and they are quick to point out what they don't want , so if ever the ANC was comfortable with this way of doing things then they should reset their ways of doing things and now realize it's no longer time to keep some skeletons in the cabinet or to sweep some dirty under the carpet instead of sweeping it to the dustbin, the whites don't like this and they want clarity , transparency and total feedback in whatever they are doing ,, so the ANC should now stop it's old ways of doing things and C.R should avoid another Phala-phala incident if ever the DA and ANC are going to get back to the GNU .The difference in this case is just emanating from that the ANC still wants to hold on to it's old ways of doing things now that C R has been sworn in as President of SA
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Well said.. including "Whites" like Strive Masiiwa and any progressive legitimate Black leader in any sector. Yes, what is the problem being transparent unless you know there is some crookedness and something to hide from the people you serve?
Miss Jessica · 9 months ago
This Ramaphosa guy... smh
ta · 9 months ago
No Whites No lndustry, kana munenharo vhurayi tione Zim alloys, Whange thermal, Zim railways and many more, chamunogona ichikurubi industrial park chete.
Anonymous · 9 months ago
They should ask the former head of state Thabo Mbeki to negotiate as he did in Zim
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Kkkk mbeki is there behind the scenes, makin sure DA supriority copmlex is exposed and outfoxed, DA is caught on lack of confindentiality which compromise trust, the left alligned eff and mk will quickly fill the void, lack of corporate governance experience has caught up with john leaking position to media is a bit childish while negotiating is playing to the gallery
. · 9 months ago
if we rope in Aljazeera vanogona kutibatsira to investigate deal re zec na Weaksnail hanty?
Zuze · 9 months ago
I foresee a show of power in Parliament now. Ramaphosa needed the DA's support to be elected as President, and he got it. Now that that deal has gone belly up, ANC cannot count on DA support in Parliament. Let me hypothecate a little. Zuma's MK didn't want Ramaphosa as President, so did Malema's EFF which put Julius Malema as Presidential nominee. Supposing those three put up a Vote of No Confidence motion in Parliament, they control 184 votes, 16 short of majority to torpedo Cyril's presidency. I bet they could muster enough support from the smaller parties to remove Ramaphosa. The FF+ (6), Action SA (6) ACDP (3) BOSA (2) are not part of ANC's GNU and could ostensibly want to see the back of Ramaphosa. That would leave one of the Smaller parties gleefully join DA & Co. to remove him. Interesting times ahead for ANC. My bet is that sooner or later ANC will have to negotiate with the DA.
Antman · 9 months ago
That's their only option as there are now cornered and held by balls
joe90 · 9 months ago
Mabhunu akapihwa Home Affairs hama dzedu dzinodzoswa very fast. Vachawirirana havo regai tiwone.
· 9 months ago
Mabhunu vanoda hama dzedu zvekuti heki nekut dzakadzidza plus dznoshanda nesimba , Masutu haadi kushanda
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Saying South Africans don't work is a lie. They know their work unlike foreigners. You just provide cheap labour and South Africans are not cheap labour and whites want you for that. "Cheap labour" no wonder some don't want you to go back to your country and build it and you all follow the narrative.
wenjanja general · 9 months ago
wiriranai tongai mose hatiti makawirirana here
king · 9 months ago
ANC is dead
. · 9 months ago
No Ramaphosa is skating on thin ice
yoyiyo · 9 months ago
power power everyone wants power to rule
Zanu PF · 9 months ago
Pasi nemabhunu pasi neDA
. · 9 months ago
regai tione kuti ANC yacho inotonga sei with 40% in Parliament. As someone said, "It can't"

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