President Jacob Zuma has spent the past six years flipping the finger to the Constitution, Parliament and the people of South Africa, DA MP David Maynier told MPs on Tuesday. Speaking during a joint-sitting debate on the state-of-the-nation address, he said Zuma had shattered the vision set out 21 years[…]
Members of Parliament should set aside their differences and focus on issues raised in the state-of-the-nation speech by President Jacob Zuma, the African National Congress said on Tuesday. “We make a special plea to all Members of Parliament across political divide to focus on the real issues raised in the[…]
Despite all the chaos and controversy the erupted in parliament last week, President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) still featured several key announcements, particularly in the areas of energy and land reform. Apart from a substantial windfall for Eskom in order to address the countries ongoing electricity[…]
President Jacob Zuma is a “champion of corruption”, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Friday. Briefing journalists in Cape Town a day after he and his fellow EFF MPs were forcibly evicted from Parliament during Zuma’s state-of-the-nation address, he said more than R60 billion had disappeared in South[…]
South Africa’s energy woes are a “challenge” but not a crisis and government knows how to address it, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. “I think we have a challenge, not a crisis,” Zuma told a breakfast meeting in Cape Town the morning after he announced a R23 billion cash[…]
Parliament descended into chaos on Thursday evening, as determined EFF members went through with threats to question President Jacob Zuma over when he would “pay back the money”, in regards to upgrades at his Nkandla homestead. Amidst the party’s refusal to adhere to calls to leave the National Assembly, security[…]
As the country watched the drama unfolding at the State of the Nation address on Thursday evening, there was very little focus on the president’s actual speech and whether South Africa had shown any positive progress over the past year. Public attention was focused on the EFF, whose members were[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton I stay in the city bowl area near to parliament. For the past 22 years I’ve witnessed the preparations for the State of the Nation address at close quarters. Each February it has always been a much-anticipated ceremony, a ceremony signalling the start of the parliamentary[…]
Government takes the energy situation in the country very seriously, Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown said on Thursday following the state-of-the-nation address. “That is why it has a war room that constitutes any department that affects energy in the country,” she said. “It is the almost most single important issue[…]
An annual event filled with pomp, protocol and a charming ceremonial appeal devolved into chaos on Thursday evening, as members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) were forcibly removed from the National Assembly for disrupting President Jacob Zuma’s 2015 State of the Nation Address. Journalists and broadcasters watched in shock[…]
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