THE FUSE

It was a weird week in the life of the Government of National Unity (GNU). There was Ashor Sarupen, the deputy minister of finance, leading a DA delegation to the Western Cape High Court to challenge his own government’s Expropriation Act. He was there as the chairperson of the DA’s Federal Council but the irony could not be lost. Even more ironic was that the first respondent in the case was his DA colleague Dean Macpherson, the public works minister whose department is supposed to implement the law.