The African National Congress (ANC) has rejected the call made on Tuesday by the Democratic Alliance (DA) for Parliament to be dissolved and new elections held, as well as the call made by the Independent Democrats (ID) for the government to resign and be replaced.
A statement issued on Wednesday from Luthuli House in Johannesburg — the party headquarters — said: ”We believe that such calls have no merit and smack of rank opportunism. The motions moved by the two parties in the National Assembly border on political bankruptcy.”
People need solutions that would alleviate these challenges, not political grandstanding, said the statement, which, unusually, came from the party apparatus instead of the Parliamentary caucus.
”By making these unfortunate calls, the DA and ID have further demonstrated their lack of interest in the consolidation of the gains South Africa has made in the past 14 years,” it said.
The statement continued that the ANC has full confidence in its policies and their potential to help deliver the better life for all that has been promised to the people of this country.
It did, however, acknowledge that a lot still needs to be done to ensure that all South Africans live under decent, humane conditions.
But it concluded: ”For this objective to be realised, the nation needs to pull together in search of lasting solutions.” — I-Net Bridge