Inside Politics Reporter
THE South African Communist Party (SACP) has warned that the Democratic Alliance (DA) through its ‘outlandish demands’ has positioned itself against the government of national unity and effectively embarked on a ‘hostile takeover’.
The SACP concluded its bimonthly meeting this week and urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to move swiftly to appoint the Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers.
Reports say the DA is demanding representation in five of the cabinet clusters, amounting to eleven ministerial positions, and either the position of Deputy President, or of Minister in the Presidency designated as Leader of Government Business and Deputy Minister of Finance.
But the ANC has reached out and offered the DA six Cabinet and seven deputy minister positions as part of the deal in the multi-party coalition agreement.
However, the SACP has denounced what it called “attempts by the DA, a party with a little over half of
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