President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to announce the outcome of discussions by the Government of National Unity Clearing House on the. This was revealed by Deputy President Paul Mashatile during his address at the SACP’s 5th Special National Congress in Boksburg, Johannesburg, on Friday.
In October, the GNU Clearing House Mechanism agreed to establish a small team to work on some of the concerns raised around the Act. The team comprised Deputy Minister Andries Nel, the Freedom Front Plus’s Cornelius Mulder, the GOOD Party’s Brett Herron, the Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille and the African National Congress’s Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli.
Mashatile says he presented the report to the President last night and that it will soon be made public. “The President said to those in the GNU because some of you are complaining, I am going to set up a structure to look at those issues. We call it the Clearing House which the President asked me to chair. We finished our work yesterday on the BELA. So last night I went to report to the President that we are done and here is the report. So, the President has the report, and he is going to announce how we have concluded, and I said this is what we propose going forward.