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South African president says national dialogue will continue without coalition partner
SOUTH AFRICA, JUL 4 – South Africa’s national dialogue aims to address poverty, unemployment, and governance despite the Democratic Alliance’s withdrawal, which President Ramaphosa called hypocritical and counterproductive.
- On 4 July, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that the ongoing national dialogue will proceed despite the Democratic Alliance, his coalition partner, withdrawing from the process.
- The dialogue followed tensions after Ramaphosa removed DA deputy minister Andrew Whitfield last week, prompting the DA to withdraw and accuse the ANC of abusing power.
- Ramaphosa criticised the DA's withdrawal as hypocrisy and regretted it would deprive their supporters of shaping the country's future, while DA leader John Steenhuisen called the dialogue an ANC closed-shop strategy.
- Former president Thabo Mbeki, attending a dialogue event hosted by North-West University on 5 July, dismissed the DA's claims and described their actions as misguided and disrespectful.
- Despite the DA's absence, Ramaphosa affirmed the dialogue aims to address governance and economic challenges, and will proceed successfully with broad participation.
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South African president says national dialogue will continue without coalition partner
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday that a national dialogue aimed at uniting the country after last year's election would continue without his party's main coalition partner.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa said the national dialogue will continue without the input of the Democratic Alliance (DA). He was speaking at a joint media briefing with the President of Austria, Alexander van der Bellen, on Friday, 4 July. Ramaphosa described the DA’s decision to withdraw from the national dialogue as “hypocrisy”. He said it demonstrated a lack of principle. He said South Africans had called for a national conversation about the sta…
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