As few as 31 or as many as 40 “rebel” African National Congress MPs may have voted for the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma during Tuesday’s secret ballot in Parliament, depending on a range of possible scenarios that could have played out during the vote. News24 has[…]
President Jacob Zuma has survived a motion of no confidence in his presidency, held via secret ballot in Parliament. Following a two-hour debate and lengthy voting process, 198 MPs voted against the Democratic Alliance’s bid to remove Zuma, while 177 voted for. About 30 ANC MPs voted for Zuma to[…]
ANC MP Makhosi Khoza warned that party members who vote against President Jacob Zuma today faced severe consequences – but says it will be worth it. In a statement issued yesterday morning, and before National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete announced her decision in favour of a secret ballot, Khoza said:[…]
By Imraan Buccus Julius Malema is a real political chameleon. There are times when he has skirted perilously close to outright fascism and times when he has sounded like a liberal Constitutionalist. Like any opportunist he says different things at different times. But at heart he is an authoritarian populist[…]
One useless computer‚ no internet‚ no accounts‚ a broken photocopier and hardly any members. That’s the dismal state of the ANC’s critical Dullah Omar region‚ which is tasked with leading the campaign against the DA’s growing stranglehold on power in the Western Cape. The revelations are made in a report[…]
The ANC’s call for increased financial support for political parties in Parliament has received support from a wide range of organisations that emphasised strict regulation to promote transparency and accountability. The majority of the 17 submissions received by Parliament’s ad hoc committee on political party funding have called for a[…]
Cape Town is bracing itself for a mass march to Parliament on Monday, organised by a wide spectrum of civil society and faith based organisations under the banner of the #UniteBehind coalition. The demonstration comes before the crucial vote of no-confidence in President Zuma is due to be held in[…]
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan says he was surprised by the scale of state capture revealed through the #GuptaLeaks, saying South Africa could have doubled social grants with the suggested R100bn stolen. Gordhan and his former deputy Mcebisi Jonas were speaking at a panel discussion at a Daily Maverick media[…]
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan says he was surprised by the scale of state capture revealed through the #GuptaLeaks, saying South Africa could have doubled social grants with the suggested R100bn stolen. Gordhan and his former deputy Mcebisi Jonas were speaking at a panel discussion at a Daily Maverick media[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape has lost its Constitutional Court bid to challenge the City of Cape Town’s change of its logo. The Constitutional Court dismissed the application with costs. In 2014, the ANC in the Democratic Alliance (DA)-led City of Cape Town approached the courts[…]
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