South Africa’s ANC says a broad collaboration with other political forces was ‘the best option to move our country forward’
South Africa’s African National Congress will invite other political parties to form a national unity government, its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era.
“Political parties should come together to forge a common future for our country,” he told a news briefing. “We must act with speed to safeguard national unity, peace, stability, inclusive economic growth, non-racialism and non-sexism.” He added that the ANC had already held constructive discussions with the EFF, DA, the smaller Inkatha Freedom Party, National Freedom Party and Patriotic Alliance.
“The purpose of a government of national unity must be first and foremost to tackle the pressing issues that South Africans want to be addressed,” Ramaphosa said. The DA, for its part, signalled on Wednesday it did not want to join a government that also included MK or the EFF. On the other hand, a deal with the EFF or MK, which advocate nationalizing mines and seizing land without compensation, would be more popular with some in the ANC base but risks tanking the economy, analysts say.
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