For more on the Umkhonto Wesizwe party's urgent application at the Constitutional Court we bring in Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution's Lawson Naidoo via teams.

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uMkhonto weSizwe Party is trying to block the National Assembly's first sitting.

The Party has filed an application to that effect at the Constitutional Court.

South Africa's newly elected National Assembly is due to convene on Friday for the swearing-in of lawmakers, and elect its speaker, deputy speaker as well as the country's President.

For more details and other related stories, we welcome in studio our SABC News Reporter, Canny Maphanga.

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GOOD party leader Patricia De Lille, has confirmed that she received an invite from the ANC's Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula to partake in the government of national unity negotiations.

She says she would like to get more clarity on the GNU to determine if the party will become a member.

Earlier we spoke to her for her take on GNU and parliament.

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