The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday said it would reject a renewed bid by the African National Congress (ANC) to get Parliament to approve the appointment of ruling party MP Cecil Burgess as inspector-general of intelligence. The National Assembly is to vote on a report from Parliament’s joint standing committee[…]
Former ANC chief whip Stone Sizani is in trouble with the ruling party after making a sudden tumble where he claimed the ANC caucus under his leadership always wanted President Zuma to repay a portion of money spend on Nkandla. On Friday ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Sizani was[…]
The ANC parliamentary caucus always wanted President Jacob Zuma to #paybackthemoney, its outgoing chief whip Stone Sizani told the Mail & Guardian in an interview published on Friday. “We have been consistent on our position that President Zuma needed to pay a portion of the Nkandla money in line with[…]
ANC chief whip Stone Sizani has resigned from Parliament with immediate effect, the party said on Wednesday. An ANC MP, who spoke off the record, said Sizani was heading to Germany, where he would be deployed as an ambassador. Sizani would be temporarily replaced by deputy chief whip Doris Dlakude,[…]
South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, on Tuesday comfortably defeated a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma brought by the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). Following a fiery debate in the National Assembly in which most opposition parties called for Zuma’s head, 225 MPs voted against[…]
The ANC in the Western Cape told disgruntled members to stay off Facebook in the aftermath of a fallout over its troubled leadership. “Desist!” said acting chairperson in the province, Khaya Magaxa, after Marius Fransman took to Facebook to complain about the way he was being treated while a sexual[…]
The government has put the brakes on retirement tax reforms for two years, but Cosatu is going ahead with mass action because it fears the ANC made the concession only as an election ploy. Cosatu was unhappy with the reforms taking away workers’ right to choose whether to withdraw their[…]
The debate on President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address ended on low note on Wednesday night after MPs engaged in name-calling and opposition parties angrily accused presiding officers of bias towards the ANC. With words like “rubbish”, “bulls**t”, “political dwarfs”, and “se voet” being bandied around, the presiding[…]
All eyes and ears will be on President Jacob Zuma who is set to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) later on Thursday. Most political pundits believe this will be Zuma’s toughest SONA yet, amid increased political pressure to step down as president following a number of bad[…]
The Western Cape ANC plans to march through Cape Town to celebrate the 26th anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, ahead of the State of the Nation address on Thursday. However, the City of Cape Town’s Priya Reddy said the party had not been given permission to[…]
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