Despite party differences, GNU should strive to improve South Africans' lives - political analysts

JOHANNESBURG - Some political analysts say the Government of National Unity (GNU) should strive to improve the lives of South Africans, despite the involved parties not seeing eye to eye on several key issues.

Sunday marks 100 days since the formation of the GNU – which resulted from the poor showing of the African National Congress (ANC) at the 29 May national and provincial elections.

Political analyst Sanusha Naidu said the unity government should avoid being sidetracked from achieving its key commitments.

 "The question here would be, what’s the next step? When is the next cabinet lekgotla? What’s the next kind of benchmark for the GNU going forward? Is it aligning with the National Development Plan? And so we’ve got to see what these benchmarks are and what are the short, medium and long-term goals and what are the objectives and outcomes that are being achieved."

Another political commentator, Professor Kedibone Phago echoed these sentiments.

"So we need to see a focus on issues of youth unemployment that has actually become a crisis. We need to see interventions on NSFAS or student funding issues."

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