By Neil de Beer
As a true patriot and a person who prides myself as having Struggle credentials, it must be said that after such an election as we experienced in 2024, we demanded more.
The revelation, after not a single party received the majority and clearly a vote, rather of no confidence, than the opposite, it was clear that political games were going to be the order of the day. Even prior to the aftermath, also being integrally part of the MPC (multi-party charter) leadership, one could not help but feel that deals were being made, even prior to election results being posted.
The outcome of the election suddenly spurred the idea of a government of national unity, but to me it was clear; this table was already set, prepared and invites were mailed, long before the event just my gut feeling. As soon as the parties and in specific the following two the ANC and DA as main characters, announced that formal talks were taking place, it was very obvious that smoke that was highlighted, indeed proved there was a fire all along.
Coming from quite a harsh and hard fought campaign strategy all around, the thought was in my mind, how would they get along and set aside the words on their posters, but at the same time agree on a myriad of policy differences. Those in specific, would be the BELA Bill, NHI, Russia vs Ukraine and land expropriation without compensation, to mention a few. Finally we were presented the new GNU, not without a few surprises, and it was clear to me that there was a very difficult sell and media message that had to crafted, by all sides.
