EFF statement on Helen Zille’s confirmation that there is no Government of National Unity but a DA/ANC alliance
1 August 2024
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is exonerated in our original characterisation of the so-called Government of National Unity (GNU) as a grand coalition between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC). In a public engagement she held with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Helen Zille confirmed three very important aspects about the so-called GNU.
Firstly, the real negotiations of the so-called GNU took place between the DA and Cyril Ramaphosa and not the fake National Executive Committee Team led by Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula. Zille's exact words are, "So from the beginning, Cyril Ramaphosa came up with this notion of a government of national unity, which he thought would be a better way of selling the concept of coalition to his own party."
Secondly, she stated that the agreement is a coalition agreement between the DA and ANC, and not the GNU that is presented in public. Zille's exact words are, "Now this, of course, is not a government of national unity, because a government of national unity brings all parties together, which would have had to include the EFF and the MK party, which it did not. But it still gave the president the fig leaf he needed to bring in all sorts of smaller parties to say, 'I'm not in a coalition with the DA.' Now the truth is that we are actually in a coalition because a coalition means that if a party withdraws from the coalition, the government falls. Now, none of the other parties, none of the other blind parties in the coalition."
Thirdly, the EFF has also been correct in asserting that the coalition of the DA and ANC was engineered by the white capitalist establishment through the manipulation of our currency because in the same talk Helen Zille said, "One of the strongest things that we had in the negotiation, the strongest lever the DA had, by far, was the value of the RAND. Every time things were going well, the RAND went up, up, up, up, up. Every time things went badly, the RAND plummeted. The bond market was exactly the same."