'We don't hate the ANC, we hate what their leaders have done to SA' - ActionSA's Beaumont

CAPE TOWN - ActionSA says it believes a minority government can emerge from next week’s elections, if coalitions can be stabilised. 

National chairperson, Michael Beaumont, is, however, unequivocal his party will never go into partnership with the African National Congress (ANC). 

Speaking at the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday, Beaumont said it was "folly" to believe that a small party could effect meaningful change in coalition with the ANC.

Despite the acrimonious divorce of ActionSA leader, Herman Mashaba, and its Eastern Cape chairperson, Athol Trollip, from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2019, Beaumont believes they can still make a success of the Multi-Party Charter. 

But he's adamant ActionSA won't waiver in its allegiance if the quest to topple the ANC, fails. 

"We don't hate the ANC, we hate what their leaders have done to South Africa and we hold the view to say, that you can't fix South Africa in partnership with those who've broken South Africa." 

Beaumont has hit out at opposition parties that would consider helping the ANC to stay in power. 

"Think of a Cabinet meeting fighting corruption and you look around the room and all of the corruption-accused people are in that Cabinet." 

Beaumont said that South Africans needed to develop a different mindset about coalition politics, from preferring a stable government over an effective one.