GNU ‘PROGRESS’ IS WISHFUL THINKING

THE so-called Government of National Unity retreat at the weekend has offered South Africans a glimpse into how out of touch our leaders are with not only the situation on the ground, but with issues confronting them as well.

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To come out of that meeting presenting a united front as they attempted to do in their statement is a misrepresentation that should not go unchallenged. In fact, to claim that the GNU is more united than ever borders on undermining South Africans' intelligence.

Just a week ago, the ANC and DA were at loggerheads over the latter's latest attempts to scrap the B-BBEE policy and replace it with its Economic Inclusion for All Bill. Claiming unity in words but not in action masks the deep ideological divisions that have come to categorise the coalition government.