{"id":10214,"date":"2026-07-02T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10214"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:15:25","slug":"geordin-hill-lewis-vows-to-enforce-consultation-in-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10214","title":{"rendered":"Geordin Hill-Lewis vows to enforce consultation in coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>The leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa\u2019s second-largest political party, will enforce broader consultation in the nation\u2019s ruling coalition as he reiterated his commitment to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The DA joined the so-called government of national unity two years ago, after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in 2024 elections for the first time since the end of apartheid. The two parties have clashed over tax, land and education policies, with the DA accusing the ANC of failing to consult it on major government decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DA will not remain silent when the ANC refuses to consult,\u201d Geordin Hill-Lewis in his first major address to party members since becoming elected leader in April.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The speech came a day after he stamped his authority on the party with a reshuffle of DA members in President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s cabinet. The moves included demoting his predecessor, John Steenhuisen, from the executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to join the government of national unity was the correct one,\u201d Hill-Lewis said. \u201cThe alternative was to allow destructive populists into power. We could not, and let me be clear, will never allow that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Geordin #HillLewis #vows #enforce #consultation #coalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa\u2019s second-largest political party, will enforce broader consultation in the nation\u2019s ruling coalition as he reiterated his commitment to the alliance. The DA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12073,12072,12071,12069,12070,2299],"class_list":["post-10214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-coalition","tag-consultation","tag-enforce","tag-geordin","tag-hilllewis","tag-vows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}