DA should leave the GNU

As much as one resents having to acknowledge it, the dilemma the DA faces concerning its further participation in the GNU is that President Ramaphosa appears to hold the key cards.

On the grounds of ‘insubordination’ because the DA refuses to participate in the farce called the National Dialogue, and given his baseless dismissal of DA Minister Chris Whitfield, nothing is stopping Ramaphosa from dismissing the remaining DA ministers.

The only benefit of remaining in the GNU is that at least the portfolios run by DA ministers are being well served, but beyond that, the GNU is the ANC’s vehicle. As Neil De Beer says, the GNU is the ‘Doomsday’ of which the DA warned – except, I would add, it is travelling in the slow lane.

Perhaps what is needed is what America experienced under four years of the Biden regime. Americans had to experience the globalist, wokeism, borderless excesses of the Democrats to wake up and appreciate what Trump stands for.  By the DA leaving the GNU to the ANC and its soul mates in the EFF and MKP to attempt to fast track the demolition of South Africa, perhaps then enough South Africans will rally in a type of ‘Arab Spring’ and oust the communist cabal and their looters from office.

As CS Lewis counselled, ‘sometimes God allows us to experience the low points of life to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.’

DR Duncan Du Bois

Durban