EFF leader Julius Malema has warned that his party will disrupt President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address, if the leader does not appear before Parliament for a question and answer session, the City Press reported on Sunday. Malema sent a two-page letter to Parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete requesting[…]
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday listed energy, land, local governance and combating corruption as top priorities for the year ahead as he vowed to take the ruling party back to basics at its 103rd anniversary celebrations in Cape Town. Addressing some 40,000 African National Congress supporters in the Cape Town[…]
Political parties who break away from the ANC never last because “the ancestors have turned their backs on them”, President Jacob Zuma said in Cape Town on Thursday. Zuma was speaking at a mini rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town to celebrate the ANC’s 103rd birthday. Speaking in isiXhosa, he gave[…]
The ANC must reclaim the Western Cape, President Jacob Zuma told residents of Nyanga in Cape Town on Tuesday. “We must take back this province,” Zuma told commuters at the Nyanga Junction train station. Zuma went on a walkabout in Nyanga and Philippi on Tuesday to promote the African National[…]
President Jacob Zuma began a door-to-door campaign in Philippi, Cape Town, on Tuesday, as part of the ANC’s 103rd anniversary celebrations. Philippi residents started singing old struggle songs as Zuma emerged from his vehicle and walked over to a group of pensioners waiting in line to meet him. Hilda Sekeleni[…]
The union representing 11 public works department employees facing a disciplinary hearing over the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead says the group will not plead guilty, The Sunday Independent reported. “Our members are determined to let the internal disciplinary hearings go ahead. They do not fear anything at[…]
Improvements to water and energy infrastructure must continue in the new year, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. “[In 2014], we celebrated the milestone of 11 million connections to electricity since 1994,” he said in his new year’s statement. “This successful programme has brought into sharp focus the need to[…]
The presidency on Tuesday called an opinion piece by columnist Max du Preez about President Jacob Zuma racist and mind-boggling. “The piece smacks of prejudice and racism given the manner in which Mr du Preez describes the president,” the presidency said in a statement. “The presidency is alarmed by the[…]
More than 6000 children and youth attended President Jacob Zuma’s RDP education trust party in KwaNxamalala, Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal, the presidency said on Monday. This was Zuma’s 13th year hosting the annual Christmas party. “Every year, we look forward to this day when we do something for the many orphans[…]
A senior public works department employee has become the first official involved in the upgrades of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead to take the fall for the R246 million project, City Press reported on Sunday. Itumeleng Molosi, 58, director of projects, pleaded guilty to irregularly appointing contractors and flouting procurement[…]
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