{"id":968009,"date":"2024-06-12T06:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968009"},"modified":"2024-06-12T06:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:46:50","slug":"kathrada-foundation-calls-for-people-centred-gnu-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/kathrada-foundation-calls-for-people-centred-gnu-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathrada Foundation calls for people-centred GNU government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation<\/a> has called on political parties to place the interests of South Africans before their own.<\/p>\n

This is as the National Assembly prepares to hold its sitting on Friday where a new President and Speaker will be elected.<\/p>\n

The Foundation\u2019s communications manager, Zusipe Batyi says discussions around the formation of a new government must be people-centred.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople\u2019s interests must always be supreme,\u201d adding it will augur well for political party leaders to obtain the counsel of previous leaders who participated in pre-democracy negotiations to obtain wisdom on how to proceed going forward.<\/p>\n

The African National Congress, meanwhile, says it will seek to include a group of opposition parties in government after the party lost its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid following the May 29 elections.<\/p>\n

However, some political analysts say hard work is needed for the proposed government of national unity to work.<\/p>\n

GNU | \u2018Negotiations now share some similarities with GNU talks of 1994\u2019: Asanda Ngoasheng<\/h4>\n