The DA will not take part in a “secret process” to cover up President Jacob Zuma’s financial liability regarding the security upgrades to his private home in Nkandla, the opposition party said on Sunday. “We will not be co-opted, behind closed doors, into agreeing to a sanitised version,” Democratic Alliance[…]
President Jacob Zuma owes South Africans R52.9 million for non-security upgrades at his private Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal, DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said on Friday. “Based on her [Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s] report ‘Secure in Comfort’, the DA has calculated that the president is liable for at least an[…]
Analysts have slated the ‘evasive’ and ‘bullish’ attitude shown by President Jacob Zuma during Wednesday’s parliamentary Q&A session, where the countries ‘Number 1’ faced questions as to the current state of criminal justice institutions, and the ongoing electricity crisis amongst others. In Zuma’s first parliamentary appearance since the controversial 2015[…]
President Jacob Zuma has agreed to an additional, fifth oral question session in the National Assembly this year, his office said on Thursday. The presidency said it had suggested the date of November 3 for the session to Speaker Baleka Mbete’s office. This follows heated demands from the opposition on[…]
President Jacob Zuma frustrated the opposition when he finally returned to the National Assembly on Wednesday to face their questions on the Nkandla saga, flatly denying personal wrongdoing and any obligation to repay state money spent on his home. “Never have I ever thought on the date when I will[…]
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday told MPs he would not pay back any money spent on his Nkandla residence until a “determination” was made on the matter. “Never have I ever thought on the date when I will pay back the money. Firstly, there is no money that I am[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema on Wednesday pleaded in the National Assembly with Speaker Baleka Mbete to agree that a programming committee set a date for the outstanding questions to be answered. “I am pleading with you… please commit that tomorrow’s [Thursday’s] programme [meeting] will come up with a date of[…]
Disclosure of Nkandla security structures, sought by architect Minenhle Makhanya, could put President Jacob Zuma in danger, according to papers before the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday. Such disclosure would reveal “highly sensitive measures which would put the lives of president Zuma and his family in jeopardy”, director general[…]
In a robust debate that largely stayed within parliamentary rules, EFF leader Julius Malema on Tuesday told President Jacob Zuma he would be made to answer on March 11 about misspending on his Nkandla home. Referring to the fracas in which police dragged the Economic Freedom Fighters from Parliament last[…]
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[…]
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