DA Has Got to Keep an Eye on ANC

There are many—including their own supporters—who would have wondered what the DA was thinking in the grandstanding ultimatum given to President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday, that he should sack those ministers accused of wrongdoing.

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When party leader John Steenhuisen made the threats in the National Assembly, some wondered if the DA had reached the end of its tether at the firing of deputy minister Andrew Whitfield and whether it would pull out of the government of national unity (GNU).

In the end, it was all a damp squib as the only serious action the DA decided to take was to withdraw from the upcoming National Dialogue.