According to state , the ANC, which lost its legislative majority in an election held in May, decided to form a government of national unity with the Patriotic Alliance, the DA, and the Inkatha Freedom Party.
With only 40% of the vote, the ANC forced Nelson Mandela’s legacy liberation movement to negotiate, for the first time in thirty years, a power-sharing arrangement with opposition parties.
Leading DA negotiator Helen Zille announced a deal for a unity government with the ANC on Friday.
Cyril Ramaphosa, 71, was on Friday scheduled to be voted to a second five-year term as the president of Africa’s biggest industrialized economy, following his leadership of negotiations about forming an alliance with opposition parties.
In order to maintain the ANC’s three-decade hold on the presidency, the ANC needed MPs from parties that it had previously considered its principal political rivals after losing support in the most recent election.Since Mandela’s election in 1994, the ANC has ruled South Africa; nonetheless, this accord ushers in a new era in the country’s political history.
