{"id":968094,"date":"2024-06-14T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968094"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:20:47","slug":"anc-da-reach-deal-to-form-government-of-national-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-da-reach-deal-to-form-government-of-national-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC-DA reach deal to form Government of National Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After days of speculation, <em>SABC News<\/em> has reliably learnt that the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have finally reached a deal to form a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/anc-nec-meeting-decides-on-government-of-national-unity\/?hilite=Government+National+Unity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Government of National Unity<\/a> (GNU) together with the Patriotic Alliance (PA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).<\/p>\n<p>This comes days after parties failed to reach an agreement on who to work with in the ANC\u2019s proposed GNU after the May polls failed to produce an outright winner.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, IFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa said the party will commit to forming a GNU at national level, with the ANC and DA.<\/p>\n<p>Hlabisa said the party took the decision to be part of the GNU for the sake of South Africa and the country\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">VIDEO: IFP agrees to be part of GNU:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifA8QT6Jg-I?si=51SOyoq9opYpRdDs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute After days of speculation, SABC News has reliably learnt that the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have finally reached a deal to form a Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the Patriotic Alliance (PA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). This comes days after parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,321,310,440,556,410,222],"class_list":["post-968094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-ifp","tag-inkatha-freedom-party","tag-pa","tag-patriotic-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}