How can South Africa form a unity government from wildly different visions?
ANC'S President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives ahead of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting looking at options to form a new South African government, its Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said in Boksburg, in the East of Johannesburg, South Africa, June 6, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS
It has until parliament's first sitting on Friday to do so, and with several options on how to structure it. President Cyril Ramaphosa last week said his party would prefer a government of national unity involving a large number of parties - rather than a formal coalition with one or two.
Yet in the two weeks since the poll, far from seeking common ground, parties have hardened positions and exchanged insults.
