Now that it is clear that no political party running for election in the 2024 national general poll scored an outright majority to form government on its own, it remains to be seen how coalitions will form and whether the ANC will opt to go to bed with the “enemy” or stick with the devil it knows.
Currently talk town is that ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has allegedly entered into a secret deal to run an under carpet alliance with the DA to shut out the MKP and the EFF from government.
This could not be surprising given that the EFF has been a thorn to Ramaphosa in parliament for the past five years, heckling his state of the nation address refusing him to speak in parliament until he addressed claims on the Phala Phala saga.
The EFF has also slammed Ramaphosa for his privatisation schemes and chastised him over load shedding among others.
The MKP on the other hand, led by former President Jacob Zuma, has made it clear that no coalition talks with the ANC will take place while Ramaphosa is still in charge.
The party has apparently tabled that both Ramaphosa and ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula be fired before any negotiations can begin.
With this scenario the ANC, which is holding it’s National Executive Committee meeting to assess it’s performance and decide on way forward over the weekend, is faced with a tough decision of either recalling Ramaphosa and Mbalula to pave the way for an alliance with either or both the EFF and MKP to form government or alternatively stick to it’s guns and retain the two while relying on its unspoken deal with the DA to run government.
This deal is apparently kept secret due to concerns of the negative mpact it could have in eroding the base support of both the DA and ANC.
News of the allegedly pre-concluded “marriage of convenience” between the two come just days before their scheduled meeting on Sunday to discuss possible coalitions .
