But even as it proceeds to work toward its vision of an open opportunity society from within, it continues to lock horns with its larger partner, the African National Congress within the Government of National Unity .“A date with destiny”- that is how DA leader John Steenhuisen described the May 2024 elections at the party’s final rally just days before the polls.
“We must do all in our power to build a strong and lasting pact against the ANC and EFF and I can report back that the moonshot pact is indeed starting to take shape in total. We have corresponded with the leaders of 15 different organisations asking us to join us in an effort to form a pre-election moonshot pact – the only opposition leaders that are not invited are those aligned to the ANC and EFF.
After much toing and froing which involved the DA, EFF as well as the new official opposition the uMkontho weSizwe Party adamantly refusing to work together, the GNU was formed.Of the parties outside the ANC, the DA was the biggest beneficiary in the new executive – getting a total of 12 positions in cabinet with six ministers and six deputy ministers.sparked by DA Federal Council Chair Helen Zille’s comments made at an event at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation; a regular donor of the party.
A war of words erupted, with the ANC rubbishing her claims, daring the party to leave the GNU as well as parties such as the EFF saying they knew all along that the GNU was a farce.
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