Nasiphi Moya was elected as the new mayor of Tshwane. Picture: Oupa Mopkoena /Independent Newspapers
United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader and Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minister Bantu Holomisa said that differences in the Government of National Unity (GNU) are inevitable.
Holomisa was reacting after the ActionSA’s Nasiphi Moya was elected as the new mayor of Tshwane - a decision that has created tension between the ANC and the DA after the ANC supported the removal of Cilliers Brink as mayor.
Moya will be leading a multiparty coalition government that will include the African National Congress, Economic Freedom Fighters and other smaller parties.
Brink, after Moya’s election said the ANC has chosen to govern the capital city of the country in coalition with the EFF and other parties opposed to the GNU.
“This signifies a reunion between the ANC and its former radical economic transformation faction, and bodes ill for the financial rescue mission underway in the City of Tshwane.
“To cover what is essentially a Doomsday Pact , the ANC and their chaotic Gauteng factions have installed a proxy mayor from a small party,” Brink said.
He said the ‘proxy mayor model allows the ANC and the EFF to battle for resources while blaming their poor performance on a hapless third party’.
“ActionSA’s Mayor Nasiphi Moya will be in office, but she will not be in power. Her strings will be pulled by the ANC’s Gauteng factions and the EFF.”
Holomisa on Wednesday said differences are to be expected in the GNU.
He said policy differences between parties were not too serious, describing it as all politics and that vigorous engagement was expected.
The Mercury