Mbalula said delaying implementation of clauses of BELA Bill is not about maintaining GNU relations, but ‘being decent and maintaining the principle of cooperation among parties’.
‘Do not threaten us, we have options’: Mbalula says government won’t collapse if other parties leave GNUPublished 9h agoSecretary-general of the African National Congress Fikile Mbalula has welcomed the signing of the contentious Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill into law on Friday, despite opposition to the enactment of the legislation.
“In the last few days, the parties to the Government of National Unity have expressed their wish to further engage each other on sections of the bill that deal with issues of admission and language. In the spirit of cooperation and meaningful engagement, I have decided to delay the implementation date for clauses 4 and 5 of the Bill by three months,” he said.
Reacting to the developments, Mbalula said this was not a desperate attempt to save the Government of National Unity. He added that there is no challenge with the BELA Bill but it is merely a question of linguistics in terms of the rights of school governing bodies to determine what happens in schools.
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