TimesLIVE understands that Steenhuisen is under pressure from party members about his comments to the paper. Asked on Wednesday by the broadcast presenter Siviwe Gwarube, also an MP, if the DA would ever go into a coalition with the ANC, Steenhuisen said: “No, not in the current form of the ANC.” He denied ever saying the party would enter into a coalition with the ANC “as it stands today”. “I was asked whether we would work with them and I said, 'yes, we would work with them'. “But working doesn't necessarily mean a coalition,” he said. Listen to a clip of the interview below: