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Seven parties, including the DA, ActionSA, IFP and the Freedom Front Plus, have signed a pre-elections agreement to work together should the ANC fail to reach a 50+1 majority at the general polls next year.
The president's address comes as the country descends into an ever-increasing snowball of crises - including corruption, rampant load shedding, a deepening economic crisis, and numerous social ills - on the cusp of the 2024 general elections.
Political Futures Consultancy director and political analyst Daniel Silke told The Citizen on Thursday that it seemed like “there was an effort to discredit the commission” as it slowly approaches its end in June. “As we move closer to the end of the commission and the real possibility of some of the bigger names facing legal consequences… you have seen a pushback from Zuma for example. “It would seem as though as there is an effort to discredit the Zondo commission as it also moves to uncover some of the issues relating to the bigger names. It was always about the bigger names…....