{"id":968240,"date":"2024-06-28T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968240"},"modified":"2024-06-28T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:21:39","slug":"mbalula-confident-gnu-talks-will-conclude-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mbalula-confident-gnu-talks-will-conclude-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbalula confident GNU talks will conclude soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says an end is in sight in discussions between political parties over cabinet positions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/954248-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government of National Unity<\/a> (GNU).<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula made the comments on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good morning South Africa almost done with GNU discussions,In the best interest of all south africans . It will be done as promised.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula (@MbalulaFikile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MbalulaFikile\/status\/1806592811027837068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, some residents in Mahikeng, North West say they have lost hope in the GNU.<\/p>\n<p>Ontireste Maloka a local resident says the ANC has already failed since they have formed an alliance with the DA.<\/p>\n<p>He says the policies of the DA and that of the ANC do not correlate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the looks of things the GNU is becoming a failure, it\u2019s gonna become a failure same as the CODESA. What we are noticing is that the government has already failed us and the coalition with the parties such as the DA , which is already saying that it wants to cast the bursaries such as the NSFAS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already struggling with it because of the external stakeholders. It\u2019s going to become a failure because we don\u2019t believe in the GNU government, we not believe in the coalition of the IFP and the DA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The video below is reporting more on the story<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJ7NdUrgwfw?si=2MrhkASQ8RjEgyLH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says an end is in sight in discussions between political parties over cabinet positions in the Government of National Unity (GNU). Mbalula made the comments on X. Good morning South Africa almost done with GNU discussions,In the best interest of all south africans . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[246,1041,3138,234,321,440],"class_list":["post-968240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc","tag-anc-secretary-general-fikile-mbalula","tag-codesa","tag-da","tag-gnu","tag-ifp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968240","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=968240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}