How NFP made last-minute GNU pick while Zuma's candidates fight over lists

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 How NFP made last-minute GNU pick while Zuma's candidates fight over lists
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COALITION NATION | How NFP made last-minute GNU pick while Zuma's candidates fight over lists

kept the country guessing as to what his provincial kingmaker party would decide, vacillating between the ANC's proposed government of national unity and its polar opposite, former president Jacob Zuma's MK Party.

Barnes had eleventh-hour meetings with Zuma and his negotiators and then with IFP provincial chairperson Thami Ntuli, whose party is part of the GNU. Everyone on either side of the GNU wanted to know what the NFP, which holds the crucial single seat in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, would do.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.

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