{"id":968250,"date":"2024-06-29T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968250"},"modified":"2024-06-29T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:16:16","slug":"anc-da-government-of-national-unity-deal-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-da-government-of-national-unity-deal-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC, DA Government of National Unity deal imminent"},"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><em>SABC News<\/em> understands that a deal could be imminent between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) on the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa met with DA leader John Steenhuisen yesterday, to iron out some of the outstanding issues relating to the constitution of the executive.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders have reliably told <em>SABC News<\/em> that a deal could be reached by the end of the weekend.\u00a0This after the President stressed the urgency of constituting his executive in a letter penned to the DA.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other parties in the GNU have raised concerns over the delay and called for a speedy resolution to the impasse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDA not holding ANC hostage\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ANC Chief Whip in Parliament, Mdumiseni Ntuli, has said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/the-da-is-not-holding-the-party-hostage-says-ntuli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DA is not holding the party hostage<\/a> with its demands over the GNU.<\/p>\n<p>Ntuli says the demands from the DA are not preventing the process from being finalised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | More details in the interview with Ntuli:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gi3D9U6LLOw?si=dveQmDWtFinxecHY\" 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 SABC News understands that a deal could be imminent between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) on the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU). President Cyril Ramaphosa met with DA leader John Steenhuisen yesterday, to iron out some of the outstanding issues relating to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":968251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,321,310,376,2010],"class_list":["post-968250","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-john-steenhuisen","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968250","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=968250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}