13 February 2008
The African National Congress rejects calls by both the Democratic Alliance and Independent Democrats for Parliament to be dissolved and for the resignation of the entire executive respectively.
We believe that such calls have no merit and smack of rank opportunism. The motions moved by the two parties in the National Assembly border on political bankruptcy.
They have demonstrated to the nation that they have run out of ideas. Point-scoring gimmicks are not going to help us solve the challenges we currently face as a country.
What people need are solutions that would alleviate these challenges, not political grandstanding.
By making these unfortunate calls, the DA and ID have further demonstrated their lack of interest in the consolidation of the gains South Africa has made in the past 14 years.
The ANC has full confidence in its policies and their potential to help us deliver the better life for all that we have promised to the people of this country.
South Africans have on numerous occasions reaffirmed the relevance of our policies in dealing with the challenges they face.
We continue to pledge our solidarity towards the people of South Africa in resolving the challenges of the day.
The ANC fully acknowledges that a lot still needs to be done to ensure that all South Africans live under decent, humane conditions.
For this objective to be realised, the nation needs to pull together in search of lasting solutions.
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