The leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) said his party remains committed to being part of the nation’s coalition government despite ongoing wrangling over key policies and legislation, and has no intention of walking away.
“We’re not going to leave the government of national unity,” and that view is shared by the DA’s entire top leadership, John Steenhuisen said in an interview in Bloomberg’s Johannesburg offices on Friday.
“I think it can survive and I think it should survive.”
The 10-party coalition was established in June last year, a month after elections in which the African National Congress (ANC) relinquished the parliamentary majority it had held since apartheid ended in 1994.
The ANC and the DA, its two biggest members, have sparred over the adoption of contentious land-expropriation, health insurance and education legislation, and most recently the National Treasury’s proposal to hike value-added tax — all of which raised questions about the
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