ActionSA calls GNU an 'Instagram government'
The party’s leaders have given a critical assessment of the African National Congress-led GNU over the last three months.
Action SA Michael Beaumont at the IEC ROC in Midrand. Picture: Karabo Tebele/702
CAPE TOWN - ActionSA said that the Government of National Unity (GNU) is a jet-setting "Instagram government” that has relied on Public Relations over the last 100 days.
The party’s leaders have given a critical assessment of the African National Congress (ANC)-led GNU over the last three months.
Briefing the media in Parliament on Monday, ActionSA also gave an account of its own performance as an opposition party with six Members of Parliament (MPs).
ActionSA Chairperson, Michael Beaumont also announced a delivery tracker website to monitor the GNU.
“What we are growing increasingly concerned about which has led us to the point where we believe a tracker government performance is necessary because it looks like we have an Instagram government that has emerged in South Africa. A government that tends to make announcements in tweets more than does in terms of policy and legislative reforms in a real way.”
Beaumont gave the GNU an “e” rating on its scorecard and questioned why its July policy lekgotla had produced nothing in 100 days.
“I think the biggest concern that we are seeing right now is the silence around the July policy lekgotla. We were told that this grand coalition was going to a lekgotla in July to announce policy reforms and ever since then it’s been radio silence,” said Beaumont.
Parliamentary caucus leader Athol Trollip said ActionSA committed to South Africans that the party would occupy the “opposition void” left by the Democratic Alliance and would hold its position as the “rational centre”.