President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his confidence in the resilience of the Government of National Unity (GNU).

He was speaking during his conversation with several journalists and editors at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on a wide range of issues.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube’s non-attendance at the signing of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill necessitated a question on whether the GNU is stable and if it will see its full term. 

The President said although disagreements in the GNU of ten parties are expected, the pact has brought confidence to South Africans.

He said a move away from the GNU will be too ghastly to imagine.

“I would like to say that the GNU is durable and those who may well want to pronounce that we could leave if this does not work is wishful thinking. So in a way, it’s like the people of South Africa have determined and forced us to work together.

So any participants in the GNU that would say we are leaving they are actually leaving the people of South Africa, they are going into the wilderness because a departure from the GNU is really going into the desert now; that is why I said any alternative is just too ghastly to contemplate.” By Ntebo Mokobo, SABC