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FILE this under: “No way! That will never happen!” But it has: Smuts Ngonyama, once the spokesman of President Thabo Mbeki was speaking on behalf of the DA and Cope when the two parties issued yet another joint statement.
The subject matter was Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Medium Term Expenditure Framework which is to be issued tommorrow.
Said the two parties: “We stand at a crossroads where elements within the ruling party alliance, with a clear populist agenda, are increasingly micro-managing the government. If this trend continues to prevail, the potential impact of changes to the macro-economic policy will be a blow to consistency and will send the wrong signals to participants in the economy.”
So, how close are the two parties becomming and is there the prospect of a new political party emerging ahead of the next elections.
Well, Cope’s Smuts Ngonyama said Gordhan must state “which side he is going to take.” Looks to me like the DA and Cope are taking the same side for now.

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ngonyamhya

October 26, 2009 at 5:01 pm

why is he named after an apartheid general after all

 

Larry Goodfella

October 26, 2009 at 8:07 pm

To make idiots sit up and thunk a think, duh.

 

Sue Kruger

October 26, 2009 at 11:23 pm

It would be great if the DA and Cope marry into one party as then we will have one truly multi racial and democratic party worth voting for. A party for ALL South Africans. Who knows, if SA heals and fixes its self, I might consider coming home. It has a long way to go though.

 

DDarko

October 27, 2009 at 5:39 am

we as a people united in the face of a common enemy to remove apartheid. we must unite once more to remove the tyrants we have created.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

Jon

October 27, 2009 at 6:04 am

Makes more sense than to adopt a dumb doctrinaire stance of “the DA says this and so therefore I have to say the exact opposite”. That sort of stupidity means the DA controls the entire agenda. All Cope can then do is to oppose the DA point of view, whatever that might be. How disempowering! Ngonyama’s approach of opposing when necessary and aligning when necessary is pragmatic and sensible.

 

Judge Motata

October 27, 2009 at 8:19 am

COPE IS A POLITICAL PROSTITUTE AND POLYGAMIST, THEY DIVORCED THE ANC, MARRY NEW VISION PARTY, ENGAGED WITH THE DA AND IN SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH ID AND UDM.

 

Larry Goodfella

October 27, 2009 at 12:33 pm

ZUMA HAS NO PROBLEM WITH POLYGAMY, SO WHY SHOULD YOU, you dumb eggplant.

What was it that Albert Einstein said:
“Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity, and I am not so sure about the former.”

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