The ANC has dismissed DA federal council chair Helen Zille's comments on the government of national unity as an irritation that must be ignored.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula was reacting to the senior DA leader's comments that the new government set-up was actually a coalition between her party and the ANC, and not a GNU.
Mbalula on Thursday said if the ANC were to allow distractions aimed at derailing the party from Zille and her ilk, the party would cease to exist.
Stop being irritated by Zille every time she says she wants to see the ANC dead. It wouldn't have stopped even if there was no GNU, the DA and others are not going to stop.
The DA, like others who want to see the ANC gone, say they eat the elephant piece by piece, but the elephant is still standing and the ANC will go down if it entertains the irritation and doesn't do what is right, he said.
