Tension is rising in South Africa concerning the government of national unity. On the first anniversary of this unprecedented ...

Political analyst Sakhele Ndlovu warns that President Cyril Ramaphosa's potential dismissal of the Democratic Alliance from ...

South Africa's two biggest political parties are in an unhappy marriage, but neither side wants to file divorce papers as it ...

A Government of National Unity (GNU) is a platform that accommodates all parties that have an appetite to participate in governance. Because this arrangement allows for parties with diametrically ...

Backing out of the coalition Government of National Unity was never an option, the Democratic Alliance says, but the party’s ...

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says South Africa’s future is at stake following the dismissal of Andrew ...

This tension is evident in South Africa’s government of national unity (GNU), where the Democratic Alliance (DA) has assumed a contentious and often contradictory role.

The DA will oppose the budget votes of ‘corruption accused ANC ministers’ – including Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane and Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane.

At the time I saw the Government of National Unity (GNU) as an attempt to address a fairly tumultuous moment in South African politics, with the ANC losing its majority in Parliament and cobbling ...