SA needs unity - so compromise

One of the better things to have happened in South African politics was the advent of the government of national unity (GNU)... and those who argue with that should look at the progress being made in formerly moribund and inefficient departments run now by someone other than a deployed ANC cadre.

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If that sounds a bit like a plug for the DA, then it is. While party leader John Steenhuisen has been singularly unspectacular in his role as agriculture minister, his colleagues Siviwe Gwarube, Dean Macpherson and Leon Schreiber have made a visible impact on their portfolios of basic education, public works and home affairs respectively. Even the DA's enemies have had to grudgingly admit that reality.