Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso - Political Reporter | POLITICS | 15 JUNE 2024
VICTORY is sang as Cyril Ramaphosa won last night's parliamentary elections in the 7th Seating of the Parliament. Ramaphosa won the race at 283 against EFF's CIC Julius Malema who had 44 votes. This gave the honourable house quite a happy stir as votes flooded in favour of Ramaphosa, a leader that other parties deem and see fit to continue to lead the country and take it to greater heights.
Though unimpressed Malema, has shared with the parliament that he does not recognise the Government of National Unity that is the coalition between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC). Malema says, this is ultimate betrayal and not a coalition. He further continued to utter that he sees this coalition as a marriage between the DA and ANC, where the ANC is the bride and the DA the groom. Meaning the DA is the one that is in power not the ANC. He made it clear in his remarks that he is not happy with the betrayal of the ANC by choosing to marry into power with a party of White Monopoly Capitalists. However he did promise that the EFF will no longer be chased out in parliamentary seatings by bouncers/parliament security anymore and that the EFF will be obedient members of the parliament from now on, though he does not promise that he won't object to what he does not see as fair and just to the constitution of the republic and its people. He then congratulated Ramaphosa and descended the podium.
This has sparked quite a large stir on social platforms, especially on the part of the DA and ANC coalition agreement. People are not impressed with the ANC by choosing to join forces with a party that is led by a white people as they say. However DA leader John Steenhuisen seems to be excited to join forces with the President Elect and this is proven by the nomination that the party made to President Ramaphosa before the elections started. Even after the elections, Steenhuisen expressed words of joy and excitement over the winning of Ramaphosa. He further stated that he looks forward to a great working relationship with the President and the ANC in betterment of the lives of South Africans and the country itself.
We fold our arms and sit back for a little while to see what is to come of the new coalition government between two parties who citizens of the Republic deem oil and water.
AS WE AWAIT!!