WATCH | Zille has succeeded in dividing black majority – Shivambu

Shivambu

Cape Town — Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy leader Floyd Shivambu has expressed concern that Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance (DA) has the ability to divide black political parties.

Shivambu was speaking at the memorial service of slain EFF member, Moshe Mphalele.

He claimed that the establishment of the Government of National Unity (GNU) was the DA’s initiative, aimed at preventing any coalition between the African National Congress (ANC), EFF, and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.

Shivambu said that Zille had succeeded in her mission as none of the parties were involved in any sort of coalition with each other.

Shivambu said black people should be concerned that Zille has the power to divide them as progressive forces and political movements.

“A person says that ‘I’m going to divide in order to rule them, I am not going to allow any agreement between the ANC, MK, EFF,’ because that will be what she calls doomsday. She sets an agenda of dividing the black majority, and then succeeds in doing so…

“We should think and discuss perpetually ourselves that why is it so easy to divide black people. Why is it so easy to sow divisions amongst ourselves as black political parties?,” said Shivambu.

Shivambu also reflected on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s GNU executives and said it could not be compared to the same GNU established by the late former president, Nelson Mandela.
He said Mandela’s GNU was a result of an interim constitution, which included all parties represented in the executive and would receive at least 20 seats, and it also averted any calamity as there was a new shift in how the government would be run.
“That GNU was a GNU because it was meant to manage a major shift from an apartheid colonial system of whites-only who were running the government.
Shivambu echoed Zille’s recent words that the make-up of the current GNU was a coalition between the ANC and the DA. 
“Now the truth is that we (DA and ANC) are actually in a coalition because a coalition means that if a party withdraws from the coalition that the party falls,” Zille said.

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