Politicians must stop bickering and start tackling SA’s many serious challenges

Neither the ANC nor the DA won an outright majority in the recent election, so both parties must come together and make common cause in the national interest

30 June 2024 - 00:00 By Sunday Times Editoral

A bruising election campaign — in which the country’s two biggest parties freely traded insults, casting aspersions on each other’s credentials and supposed hidden agendas — was never going to be the best preparation for talks to establish what is in effect a grand coalition between the ANC and the DA...

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