President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to recover almost R14 billion that has been stolen from taxpayers through corruption. Delivering his State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday evening, Ramaphosa says government is taking steps to fight corruption and state capture by bolstering the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and[…]
With the State of the Nation Address (SONA 2019) only a week away, Parliament has vowed to have measures in place to ensure that no disruptions are tolerated during the National Assembly (NA) event. NA Speaker, Thandi Modise, led the Presiding Officers at Thursday’s media briefing on the state of Parliament’s readiness[…]
With the new Cabinet Ministers appointed, President Cyril Ramaphosa will now turn his focus to the State of the Nation Address (SONA 2019), where he will outline the vision and plans for the country. Related: SONA 2019 well delivered: Now it’s time for action, Mr. Ramaphosa When is the second SONA 2019[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa received a standing ovation from the ANC as he insisted that he was never a spy and never sold his comrades out. Ramaphosa was responding to claims which Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota made on Wednesday during his speech in the debate on Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation[…]
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has slammed the governing African National Congress (ANC) for what he says was the creating of the conditions for the massive loadshedding that has hit the country. He was speaking in parliament during the debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address (Sona) largely dealt with the issues facing SA, but it promised more than government can deliver. This was the gist of the reaction from opposition parties, who were speaking outside parliament after the address on Thursday night. The speech was also lacking[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver South Africa’s annual State of the Nation address tomorrow night in Cape Town. And Africa Check will fact-check the claims he makes, live. Last year we found Ramaphosa’s claims to be mostly correct (he got two wrong). But what about the promises he[…]
Chaos could erupt again at this year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has warned – and this time it could be centred around recent corruption allegations that emerged at the state capture commission of inquiry. Malema warned President Cyril Ramaphosa to come clean[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to respond to the debate and questions around his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). But before the newly sworn in president responds to questions raised by members of Parliament on Tuesday, he is expected to be out early in the morning in Gugulethu[…]
Parliament on Sunday rejected as “selective analysis, one-sided, and misleading allegations” that the institution spent over R11 million in organising and staging President Jacob Zuma’s state-of-the-nation (Sona) address on February 9. “Premier annual events held in Cape Town like Sona pump millions of rands into the economy of the City[…]
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