Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie had demanded the Home Affairs portfolio during the GNU negotiations.
Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie says his party would leave the Government of National Unity if they do not get a Cabinet position.Speaking ahead of Ramaphosa’s highly-anticipated announcement, McKenzie said he doesn’t believe Ramaphosa would not give the party a position, however, if he does not, then they would leave the GNU.
As a result, the new national executive will constitute the seventh democratic administration as a Government of National Unity comprising a diversity of political parties “I can’t let the people that voted for us to be humiliated. If they don’t give us a post in cabinet tonight we’re out of the GNU. The majority of the people that voted for us need to be represented.
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