{"id":968226,"date":"2024-06-28T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968226"},"modified":"2024-06-28T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:11:14","slug":"deadlock-in-gnu-talks-between-anc-da-not-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/deadlock-in-gnu-talks-between-anc-da-not-surprising\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deadlock in GNU talks between ANC-DA not surprising\u2019"},"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>The Executive Director of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Neeshan Balton, says the current deadlock in government of national unity (GNU) negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa lashed out at DA leader John Steenhuisen in a letter sent earlier this week, saying that he believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/ramaphosa-accuses-the-da-of-shifting-goalposts-in-gnu-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the party has jeopardised the GNU.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This comes after the DA\u2019s letter listing its demands for joining the GNU was leaked.<\/p>\n<p>Balton says, \u201cI think it was expected that this was not going to be plain sailing. Posturing around coalitions, posturing around the number of seats should have been an expected part of this process. \u00a0I am hopeful that the intended common ground that the GNU had been premised on in the statement of intent will get people back to sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>PODCAST | Interview with the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation\u2019s Neeshan Balton on SAfm\u2019s First Take programme:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"Four foundations call for a national dialogue to unite the country\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/four-foundations-call-for-a-national-dialogue-to-u\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Executive Director of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Neeshan Balton, says the current deadlock in government of national unity (GNU) negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) is not surprising. President Cyril Ramaphosa lashed out at DA leader John Steenhuisen in a letter sent earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":968227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,2057,246,234,339,321,310,376,2010],"class_list":["post-968226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-ahmed-kathrada-foundation","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-john-steenhuisen","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968226","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}