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How to make the best of a shotgun marriage

The GNU is a bit like a movie about the adventures of a couple forced to remain together against their will — can the ANC and DA create a happy ending?

The ANC and the DA are in a bind: each desperately needs the other, yet they are more often than not at daggers drawn in the newly forged government of national unity (GNU). 

President Cyril Ramaphosa, at a media briefing on Friday, repeated many times that the alternative to the GNU was “too ghastly to contemplate”. ..

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