Cracks appear in South Africa's coalition as the Democratic Alliance takes the ANC to court
CRACKS have appeared in South Africa’s new coalition government as the Democratic Alliance (DA) took the African National Congress (ANC) to court on Thursday over a pre-election speech in May given by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The court papers were submitted to the Electoral Court by the DA in May before it entered into a coalition with the ANC, but it decided to still go ahead with the case.
The DA asked the court to deduct 1 per cent of the vote received by the ANC in the May 29 national election and fine Ramaphosa, the ANC leader, the equivalent of £8,500 and his party £4,220, over what it argues was a presidential address that was used for election campaigning and amounted to an abuse of office.
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