President Cyril Ramaphosa says African National Congress party will form a unity government, bringing in all major parties to solve a political deadlock in Africa's most industrialised country before a June 16 deadline.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says Africa n National Congress party will form a unity government, bringing in all major parties to solve a political deadlock in Africa 's most industrialised country before a June 16 deadline.Ramaphosa acknowledges after ten hours of intense talks with his party's senior members at a Johannesburg conference centre, the governing party now needs partners to form a government.
"The purpose of the government of national unity must be, first and foremost, to tackle the pressing issues that South Africans want to be addressed," Ramaphosa said after a marathon ANC meeting on Thursday. In last week's general election, the ANC won just over 40 percent of the vote and 158 seats in South Africa's National Assembly, falling short of an outright majority for the first time.
There had been speculation the party might seek to form a minority government or a coalition with one or two major parties, but in the end Ramaphosa invited all his rivals to talks.
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