ANC, DA like 'water and oil': Mbalula recalls GNU talks, says EFF 'came with that arrogance'
The two are part of the multi-party government of national unity.The ANC and DA are"like water and oil", according to ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula , who added that the party couldn't work with the EFF due to the latter's"arrogance" during initial government of national unity talks.
The MK Party and the EFF also failed to secure seats at the table partly due to their alleged barking of orders to the ANC about their preferences in the former ruling party's top leadership structures."I think we knew that the EFF was in trouble. We knew what they want: to be in government... either for Julius Malema to be deputy president and for Floyd Shivambu for Minister of Finance. They even called for us to be surgically removed as a party," said Mbalula.
Mbalula relayed a story about negotiating with Zille on behalf of Malema when she previously sued the ANC Youth League under his helm. Fast-forward to the immediate post-election period, Mbalula said that when the party realised it wasn't going to achieve an outright majority, he instructed party officials to send"feelers" to the DA.We and the DA are like water and oil. We had to sit down think about South Africa and the interests of our people first. In real terms, we've got a country that could been just reduced to ashes.
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