The Democratic Alliance and other GNU partners are urging President Ramaphosa to send the Bela Bill back to parliament
.The DA may be committed to the government of national unity but a key cog is set to perform a public snub.
The minister, who will be tasked with overseeing some of the amendments, has stated that she will skip the Union Buildings signing ceremony in protest. Gwarube is not convinced the Bill is comprehensive in its current form and has requested the president to send it back to Parliament. “I have thus written to the president and notified him that, in the present circumstance, I cannot attend today’s signing ceremony until concerns regarding the Bill are rectified,” the minister confirmed.stated that making the Bill official would cause great confusion within communities, while the DA said it threatened the solidity of the GNU.
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