Simon Nare
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the ANC National Executive Committee has chosen safer ground and opted for a Government of Nation Unity (GNU) over a coalition that would have forced it to share power with either one or more of the eight parties that got a significant number of votes in the elections.
Ramaphosa, announcing the decision at the closing of the NEC meeting at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on Thursday night pointed out that the voters have, through their votes, instructed political leaders to work together since there was no outright majority winner at the 29 May National Elections.
“We are called upon as this leadership and as a movement to give effect to the will and the wishes of the voters of this country. A Government of National Unity is the most viable, most effective and most powerful way of meeting the expectations
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