All eyes will be on Ramaphosa on Sunday when he finally announces his much-anticipated new cabinet with Gayton McKenzie hoping for a post
All eyes will be on Ramaphosa on Sunday night when he finally announces his much-anticipated new cabinet at 9pmhas warned President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Africa National Congress that if his party does not get a cabinet post, they will leave the government of national unity .the new cabinet is expected to be a historic moment in South Africa and the most politically diverse since the end of apartheid.
The last time the country had a coalition government was under late president Nelson Mandela in 1994, when he appointed FW de Klerk as a deputy president and 10 ministers from the National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party . While the Democratics Alliance besides the ANC being the biggest party in the GNU and getting at least six cabinet positions, McKenzie is hoping the PA will also get a post, failing which, he threatened the party will leave the GNU.“If they don’t give us a post in cabinet tonight, we’re out. The majority of people, the people that voted for us need to be represented. If you say we are not worthy to be there, with nine seats in Parliament, we can use our nine seats elsewhere.
“We play a long game. I know how this story is going to end, I know politics. Tomorrow politics might change, our nine seats might be two percent now, but that two percent might become important in the future. I personally don’t think he is going to leave us out of the cabinet. But if he does, I will have no bad word for him as the president or the ANC. I joined voluntarily, I will leave voluntarily,” McKenzie said.
After electing Ramaphosa for a second term during the first sitting of Parliament on 15 June, the coalition has been thrashing out his executive.SA’s political monopoly has been broken – Could it help the economy?
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