WATCH: DA to get six ministerial positions and four deputies in new GNU

Two words, an argument about what “sufficient consensus” on government decisions and policies entailed and a spelling error almost derailed the GNUis expected to get six ministerial positions and four deputies in the government of national unity including the coveted position of leader of government business.Watch Fikile Mbalula speaking about South Africa not being a failed democracy

“For example, since the IFP got the premiership of KwaZulu-Natal, it will also get three MEC positions. The ANC got the position of Speaker; it will also get three MEC positions as the third-largest party in that province.” The paper also reported that two words, an argument about what “sufficient consensus” on government decisions and policies entailed and a spelling error almost derailed the GNI at the eleventh hour, after two weeks of intensive negotiations.

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