Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his second opening of parliament address as president of South Africa – the first as leader of a minority party in government.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be delivering his second opening of parliament address on Thursday at 19h00.
This will be Ramaphosa’s second such address, having been elected as president in 2019, but his first coming from a non-majority party.Ramaphosa was elected to office through the newly-formed Government of National Unity which comprises the ANC, the DA, the IFP and a host of smaller parties. In post-election talks, the ANC opted to invite all parties to form a GNU, to which only two parties initially heeded the call: the DA and IFP. The parties signed an agreement that wouldThe GNU has since grown in number, with major parties scoring representation across government, including ministerial roles for the larger parties.
This strengthens the GNU’s supermajority, where a two-thirds majority is needed to make sweeping changes, like changing the country’s Constitution.Analysts have pointed out that the GNU holds parties with disparate views and ideologies, many of which are unlikely to find middle or common ground.
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