{"id":968230,"date":"2024-06-28T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968230"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:54:15","slug":"ramaphosa-and-steenhuisen-to-meet-today-over-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ramaphosa-and-steenhuisen-to-meet-today-over-gnu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa and Steenhuisen to meet today over GNU"},"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>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet DA leader John Steenhuisen this afternoon. The two party leaders will try to find common ground regarding the constitution of the Government of National Unity.<\/p>\n<p>The parties were this week engaged in<a href=\"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/news\/ramaphosa-accuses-the-da-of-shifting-goalposts-in-gnu-negotiations-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a bitter battle of words and exchanging letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In their last correspondence, the President indicated that he wanted to complete the negotiations and announce his executive this week.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon\u2019s meeting is expected to be the make-or-break moment of whether the DA becomes part of the GNU.<\/p>\n<p>The DA has been unhappy with the ANC\u2019s offer of six ministries, which now appear to exclude the Department of Trade and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>But, this deadlock could present an opportunity for the ANC to negotiate with other parties.<\/p>\n<p>The second-largest party had sought to prevent what it termed a \u2018doomsday coalition.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When Steenhuisen meets the President later this afternoon, he will be mindful of this threat to the DA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | Political analyst Sanusha Naidu discusses the GNU talks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOW9tmt07dY?si=pTZTwlfoPqZcLEpK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet DA leader John Steenhuisen this afternoon. The two party leaders will try to find common ground regarding the constitution of the Government of National Unity. The parties were this week engaged in a bitter battle of words and exchanging letters. In their last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":968231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[246,234,310,376,2010],"class_list":["post-968230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc","tag-da","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\/968230","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}