SANCO warns ANC against partnering with DA

JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) warned the African National Congress (ANC) against partnering with the Democratic Alliance (DA) as political parties scramble to finalise a power-sharing deal.

The ANC lost its majority in the 29 May polls and has since proposed a government of national unity (GNU) to spearhead the seventh administration.

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So far, the DA and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) have supported the calls, while the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party have distanced themselves from the GNU in its current form.

Speaking at the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)’s policy conference in Boksburg on Wednesday, SANCO’s second deputy president, Chris Malematja, told delegates that it rejected a deal with the DA on a matter of principle.

"Today we are forced to go to the negotiating table with the sons and daughters of the architects of apartheid, the former enemy of the national democratic revolution."