The EFF on Monday filed an application with the Western Cape High Court for an urgent interdict to halt Parliament’s disciplinary charges against 20 of its MPs. “We filed this morning. We are now waiting for a hearing date,” Economic Freedom Fighters spokesman Mbyuseni Ndlozi said. The application was filed[…]
The proposed upgrade to the Parliamentary Precinct at a cost of about R1.4 billion will be opposed by the Democratic Alliance, it said on Sunday. “The national fiscus faces massive pressure and a rising deficit,” DA chief whip John Steenhuisen said in a statement. “We can’t afford to splurge on[…]
Parliament should allow leaders to answer questions without shouting, and insults being hurled, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. “Parliament must do its work and not allow deviant behaviour,” Mantashe told reporters in Johannesburg. “How can they [questions] be answered when we are all singing and shouting? Space[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters were committed to undermining Parliament through chaotic conduct, the ANC said on Wednesday. “The African National Congress once more expresses its concern about the conduct of EFF Members of Parliament in the National Assembly today,” national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said in a statement. “Their refusal to[…]
After an insult-laden debate, opposition leaders walked out of Parliament on Thursday leaving the ANC to easily defeat their vote of no confidence in Speaker Baleka Mbete. Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane, who opened the debate on the motion, led the walkout after ANC chief whip Stone Sizani sought[…]
Lesotho coalition leaders have been given two days to agree on a date to open Parliament by South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, SABC News reported on Wednesday. After meeting with coalition leaders on Tuesday, Zuma told the broadcaster talks went well. He said leaders had reached a point where they[…]
Members of the Iraqi parliament have voted on a new government, a key moment for the country as it tries to mount a counter-offensive against the Islamic State group, according to Iraq stateTV. Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abbadi is trying to cobble together a cabinet, which is scheduled to be approved[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters will go to court to oppose looming suspension from Parliament for disrupting presidential question time last week, party leader Julius Malema said on Thursday. All 25 EFF MPs in the National Assembly were responding to Speaker Baleka Mbete’s letters of warning with help from lawyers and[…]
A claim that the ANC bussed a group to Parliament to assault EFF MPs was “laughable and desperate”, the governing party’s Chief Whip Stone Sizani said on Wednesday. “Such a claim can only be an invention of an overzealous imagination and an uncreative publicity strategy probably aimed at diverting attention[…]
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete is considering the suspension of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs who disrupted questions to President Jacob Zuma last Thursday. “I have to inform the House that the matter is being referred to the Powers and Privileges Committee in terms of rule 194,” Mbete told MPs at[…]
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