Fikile Mbalula said the ANC is criticised for entering into the GNU pact but generally coalitions across the world are constituted not by allies but ideological rivals.
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula said SACP’s stance on the GNU was unfortunate. File Picture: Armand Hough / Independent NewspapersSecretary general of the African National Congress Fikile Mbalula says the event on Monday marking the 100 days of the Government of National Unity is not a celebration, but an important reflection.
Reacting to the snub by one of its tripartite alliance partners, Mbalula told journalists in Joburg that the stance adopted by the SACP was rather unfortunate.“We have invited all our alliance partners to come to the reflection of the 100 days. Reflection of the 100 days is no celebration. There is nothing to celebrate. We are thanking out people for voting ANC and committing ourselves, reflecting these 100 days on what we have done,” said Mbalula.
“It’s really unfortunate because we would have started at 10am with the bilateral meeting and maybe talk about this moment. The SACP also had a politburo this past week. Nonetheless we will wait till we finalise the date at a later stage. We are very much committed to bilateral meetings with the SACP,” he said.
“We characterise the GNU as a tactical intervention. There is often an accentuated verbosity about the GNU that the GNU is something like we, in the ANC, love. This was produced by the moment. We could have come to GNU, grand coalition and all of that but this is not what we envisaged. We did not struggle for a GNU.
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