Maimane: BOSA will not join GNU if MK Party or EFF are included

BUILD One South Africa (BOSA) leader Dr Mmusi Maimane says his party has not held formal talks with the ANC on expanding the GNU, and will not join any coalition that includes the MK Party, EFF, or “racist parties.”

- SIMON MAJADIBODU

Maimane made the remarks during a media briefing held in Rosebank, Johannesburg, yesterday.

The briefing was convened in response to rising tensions within the GNU and ongoing fallout from the National Dialogue.

He also outlined BOSA’s political agenda for the fourth quarter of the year.

Maimane criticised the GNU, currently led by the ANC and including the Democratic Alliance (DA), Freedom Front Plus, Inkatha Freedom Party, Patriotic Alliance, GOOD, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, United Democratic Movement, Al Jama-ah, and Rise Mzansi - for failing to deliver on its promises.

“BOSA wishes to address the Government of National Unity itself. The GNU has been in office for 14 months. What South Africans have seen and experienced is endless infighting at the expense of progress,” Maimane said.