{"id":968314,"date":"2024-07-03T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968314"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:41:12","slug":"da-anc-stalemate-in-gauteng-will-negatively-impact-services-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-anc-stalemate-in-gauteng-will-negatively-impact-services-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018DA-ANC stalemate in Gauteng will negatively impact services\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>Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga says the stalemate in negotiations between his party and the African National Congress (ANC) on forming a Government of Provincial Unity will have a negative impact on service delivery in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The two parties are still at loggerheads and have not reached an agreement over the composition of the executive council.<\/p>\n<p>The DA says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/anc-to-give-update-on-gauteng-negotiations-on-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ANC insists on giving it three Cabinet seats in the Gauteng government<\/a>, while keeping the remaining seven seats, which include the Premier.<\/p>\n<p>It says this is in violation of the proportionality clause.<\/p>\n<p>Msimanga has expressed concerns over the delays in forming a provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that this is stalling decision-making and getting on with the program of government. You would know there\u2019s issues of safety and security in Gauteng, issues of infrastructure that is collapsing, issues of schools, issues with our hospitals, with our clinics and we are very much concerned about those things. And if there\u2019s no political leadership to steer the program of government it does affect the ability of government to deliver services\u00a0 to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>PODCAST | Interview with DA Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga on SAfm\u2019s First Take programme:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"Negotiations between DA &amp; ANC stall in Gauteng\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/negotiations-between-da-anc-stall-in-gauteng\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga says the stalemate in negotiations between his party and the African National Congress (ANC) on forming a Government of Provincial Unity will have a negative impact on service delivery in the province. The two parties are still at loggerheads and have not reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":968315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[234,339,500],"class_list":["post-968314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-solly-msimanga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968314","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}