GNU leaders should heed lessons from 1996, putting national interests first to ensure sustainable political progress.
Roelf Meyer warns the GNU to avoid party politics and prioritise unity, reflecting on the National Party’s exit in 1996.
Experiences are nothing if you don’t learn from them… and a warning about that for the politicians in the government of national unity has come from someone who has walked that road. He regretted the National Party’s decision to leave the GNU in 1996, during the Nelson Mandela presidency.
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