South Africa: Knife-edge GNU talks — Alan Winde on how Floyd Shivambu ‘saved SA’

Alan Winde, one of the Democratic Alliance (DA) negotiators for the Government of National Unity (GNU), has repeated DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille’s claim that EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu “saved South Africa” when he called for a caucus break during the first sitting of the new National Assembly, which allowed the DA and the African National Congress (ANC) to sign a coalition agreement.

Winde, who in June was sworn in as Western Cape premier for a second term,…