Focusing on our topic this morning, it's very important to look at this and Flumento Club as a political analyst and joins us on the last on the line Soum Club, we look Tremelo. We are looking at the fallout from Whitfield's dismissal. We've seen last week where all of us are South Africans, appealing for the best was the best interest of South Africans, So that's what we're appealing to, the inviting itself. Who stands to lose the most out of this love triangle?
Good morning, Good morning, and thanks for having me this morning. Well, if you can currently look at this coalition sit up, I'd say it's obvious the ANC is a leading figure in that it's the largest party within the GNU. So I think that between the ANC and the GA, the
GA obviously has a lot more to lose out. I mean, we saw the fact the fact that they still are reluctant to talk of the GNU every time they can, always threatening but not ultimately walking out, shows that they're the ones that have more to lose, because a party that was actually not Belgium scared of losing out in anything, would have walked out of the Junior a long time ago, considering the amount of times that they've always given an
automatum and always threatened to walk out. If you will recall last year during the passing of the Faila Act, they still gaze these thereat exhibited that these days that they they did not like they did now even if the Exppropriation Act. They always come out as if they are going to do something that is that is unexpected, meaning that they were going to do something that is going to like rattle the entire coalition, but they end
up not doing anything. Even with the budget vote for instance, the DA always threatens to do something, but they never do it. So I would say that their bark is worse than their bite if we've been honest about this, because they've been doing automations and also they're not talking. But they've always been taken to walk out to the g and you think that instability, but they don't really live up to such to those expectations or to those promises, which shows a party that is in government and does
much want to leave. I think now they've actually helped into the gravy train and have seen what it's lack in government. Therefore vera that ting to walk out.
So we're going to miss that objective view we want from in opposition party because this is not about the DA or A and CE. Fundamentally, from a principal perspective, we're looking for people to hold each other accountable, systems and processes, where and checks and balances. That's the ideal situation. But what we're caught up in, as you're mentioning now, is a corruption of what those fundamentals are. What does
the ideal opposition party look like. There's been some good work being done by the DA, as mentioned, and we've read articles and that's what we want for South Africa. What does the ideal opposition party look like? And let's talk about those members of success that the DA has been able to spark.
Look, I think one thing that you need to get clear that the DA at this point in times no opposition party. I think that they're just conflicted between being a party in government and being an opposition because the stands of the position that they always want to take with as far as the AGENC is concerned, is acting
like a watchdog to the agency. Because if you can look at the same multi party coalition, you'll find that they're the ones that always have a problem, not even Freedom Front Pluss actually always is opposing the what the ANC does and all of that. Well, a couple of times we have things for them Front Class trying to work. They tail when it comes to the person of the Badges as well as some past legislations that are passed
like the Better Act as well as Expefication Act. But the DA and the A that are the ones that seem to be have to be more problematic than the other political parties, like I said, and I think the stems from the fact that this multi party coalition and is made up of organizations that have totally different world views, that are totally different ideological backgrounds. So I think in such cases we didn't begin to see those fragmentations that
are consecuting this G and you. But then in as far as the TEA is concerned, like I mentioned, I think they are conflicted as to whether or not they should be in opposition party or a party in government, because when you're in government, you cannot want to act as an opposition. Yes, behind close doors, you are obliged to actually hold those that you are in power with accountable.
You are applies to have these debates, but they should not now transcend to the public eye where we not begin to see these fragmentations because it gives us as citizens and impression that you guys are not united firstly, and that there's no direction in this coalition partnership, because the coalition is about being in a partnership and actually being in agreement with whatever it is that we are
that is on the table. Yes, sometimes may disagree, but within a partnership, you cannot publicly disagree with the people that you are in power with. So that's what we've been seeing with the A ANDC in the DA in particular.
But like I said, I think the DA is just conflicted between being an opposition party or being a party in government, which is something that I think is a bit i'd say for a term dangerous in a way, because if you're in government, like I said, you ought to agree with those that you are in partnership with,
particularly in a coalition. So THEDA is really conflicted and so far as at this point in time, because they really just want to act like a watch watchdog to the A and C instead of working together with them.
What does that look like? Because there's one aspect I think watch dog and checks and balances are important. Let's take a step back here. What impression does it give politically and is there a viable I hear you talk about opposition parties and government in power. How do we find a balance then as to be represented as South Africans, that's what you're looking for. We want public officials who are going to do a good job with integrity in
the right parameters. But what does it look like because surely there is disagreement, there should be a way to handle it, and we want a viable opposition party.
Well, like I mentioned that the parties that are currently in the g and you now are very different in so far as the ideological orientation is concerned, meaning that there ought to be inevitable that there won't be any disagreements. But in so far as the coalition is concerned, they need to be issues of common interest that you agree on that you will be able to actually try that you'll be able to actually drow up in the Chaine
and drive those issues together. But with the current coalitionship that because Africa at national level we don't see that. And I actually alluded to this platform sometimes last week where I mentioned the fact that the statement of intent which was const which was drafted last year in the of the in the week of the agency, in the work of the g and you've been constituted, is not something that is very so such.
A quick one as a parting sort in thirty seconds from what I'm hearing from you, are you saying that the GNU is it viable? Is it a viable proposition, then that can work?
So that's not what I'm saying. I was just saying that currently there's no framework that is that is very concrete in so far as ensuring that there'sn't a chain that that can actually assist because in a coalition, like I mentioned, they need to be issues of common interest that you agree on, like they need to be a framework of certain objectives that you all agree on. And thinks that you're you need.
Those common objectives to work together. Thank you so much to political analyst talking about the fallout from Whitfield's dismissal, and that's Andrew Whitfield and being dismissal of andreid Field by President Romain Passa, which is ignited a fierce backlash from the Democratic Alliance