{"id":863194,"date":"2025-07-17T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/discussion-dismissal-sparks-unity-government-rift\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:13:06","slug":"discussion-dismissal-sparks-unity-government-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/discussion-dismissal-sparks-unity-government-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion | Dismissal sparks unity government rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>CAPE TOWN &#8211; <\/span>Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says South Africa\u2019s future is at stake following the dismissal of Andrew Whitfield as Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>READ | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/da-moves-oust-morero-jhb-mayor\"><span><strong>DA moves to oust Morero as JHB mayor<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa removed Whitfield from his position without providing any formal explanation a decision the DA has condemned as unjust and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield, a DA Member of Parliament, was serving in the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the matter, Whitfield said he was not given a formal reason for his removal. He had asked the President for permission following a previous incident but received no response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologised to the President, but I never received a response. I\u2019ve made a lot of effort over the past four months since that incident\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the removal, Whitfield emphasised his ongoing commitment to public service and said he will seek ways to maintain key working relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will remain committed to playing \u00a0serve in \u00a0roles. I will find ways to maintain relationships and South Africa is moving to coalition future \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Minenhle.Thusi<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/discussion-dismissal-sparks-unity-government-rift\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says South Africa\u2019s future is at stake following the dismissal of Andrew Whitfield as Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition. READ | DA moves to oust Morero as JHB mayor President Cyril Ramaphosa removed Whitfield from his position without providing any formal explanation a decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25655,119242],"tags":[110000,5778],"class_list":{"0":"post-863194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discussion","8":"category-dismissal","9":"tag-discussion","10":"tag-dismissal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}