GNU negotiations
The unseemly spat between the ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), John Steenhuisen, comes as no surprise.
In part, this has to do with the fact that they represent different agendas that respond to opposing interests. The DA, once dubbed “a party of white bosses and black stooges” is seen as fundamentally opposed to the aspirations of the majority who remain landless in the country of their forebears.
For the DA, a GNU made up of black parties would be anathema. In its arrogance, the DA has described such a possibility as a doomsday
