Simon Nare
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has dismissed his DA counterpart Helen Zille as a dreamer after her shocking revelation that the current government was a grand coalition between the two parties disguised as a National Government of National Unity (GNU).
Zille, speaking at a German foundation event on Wednesday night, admitted that in fact it was President Cyril Ramaphosa who came up with the idea of a GNU which he said would be easy to sell to his comrades in the ANC National Executive Committee.
Mbalula dismissed Zille’s two-party coalition narrative as hogwash, pointing out that there are 10 political parties that are in the multi-party agreement that formed the government.
‘We don’t have a grand coalition between the DA and the ANC. I think as a journalist you are educated. Does this look like a grand coalition? It’s not. A grand coalition is when one or two
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