ANC taking DA threats to collapse GNU seriously
JOHANNESBURG - ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says President Cyril Ramaphosa declined to travel, potentially anticipating that the DA would announce their departure from the GNU.
He says they're taking the DA threats to collapse the GNU, seriously.
The DA chose to remain in the Government of National Unity but it has withdrawn from the National Dialogue – dismissing it as a waste of time.
DA federal chair, Helen Zille, said the party 'will not be messed around' with and warning that the DA has the numbers to bring government to its knees if necessary.
This followed after Ramaphosa fired Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Andrew Whitfield of the DA.
Whitfield was removed for travelling to the US as part of a DA delegation even though the president had warned against it. The group met with US lawmakers and representatives of the Trump administration in March.
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