A Right2Know member has opened a case of assault after allegedly being slapped and manhandled by members of the police’s VIP protection unit, GroundUp reported. Murray Hunter was placing one of the organisation’s “Stop SABC Censorship” campaign stickers on the bumper of a white, unmarked police car after the State[…]
The City of Cape Town plans to retract its support for the next State of The Nation Address (SONA), calling the use of security “excessive and unnecessary”. This is after parliament doubled the number of road closures for the yearly address on Thursday and 441 SA National Defense Force troops[…]
The deployment of almost 450 soldiers to Parliament ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address on Thursday is a breach of the separation of powers‚ according constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos. He said: “In the wake of the decision of the president to deploy more than[…]
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[…]
Alinah Mabaso is an orphan, living in a rural community in the south of Johannesburg. She is one of millions of ordinary South Africans who listened to President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address. This is her response. Dear South Africa His Excellency, President Jacob Zuma, presented the State[…]
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 High Court on Tuesday dismissed an urgent interim application for an order enforcing uninterrupted audio and a wide-angle shot of the National Assembly chamber during disruptions. Judge Owen Rogers delivered the order within a few minutes, announcing that interim relief against Parliament would not be granted and[…]
Judgment in an urgent interim application to enforce uninterrupted audio and a wide-angle shot of the parliamentary Chamber during disruptions was reserved by the Western Cape High Court on Friday. Judge Elizabeth Baartman, sitting with Judges Nape Dolamo and Owen Rogers, said arguments by media houses, organisations, and Parliament would[…]
The DA on Thursday will challenge legislation allowing for the arrest or removal of people who create a disturbance in the National Assembly. The party approached the Western Cape High Court after the removal of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs from the National Assembly during the state-of-the-nation address on February 12.[…]
Western Cape police could not answer questions about action taken during the state-of-the-nation address as it was a national operation, provincial commissioner Arno Lamoer said in Cape Town on Wednesday. “It is a national event. It is a national operation. There are different role players in that,” Lamoer told chairwoman[…]
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