Charges of public violence against four DA members were withdrawn in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Thursday. “The NPA can confirm that the charges were withdrawn in court today due to insufficient evidence,” spokesman Velekhaya Mgobhozi said. Democratic Alliance MP Marius Redelinghuys, DA[…]
President Jacob Zuma assured editors on Friday that the jamming of cellphone networks in Parliament will not happen again. “Rest assured that will never happen again and we did not know about it and we are condemning it. It was uncalled for,” he said after a meeting with the SA[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters say the party is not rattled by Thursday’s events during President Jacob Zuma’s annual State of the Nation (SONA) address. And while some observers watching the SONA debate session on Tuesday noticed a change in tone and the style of EFF leader Julius Malema when addressing[…]
The signal jamming in the National Assembly ahead of the state-of-the-nation-address was caused by an operational error, the state security department said on Wednesday. “The signal disruption was caused by an operational error by the member on duty,” the department said in statement. “The operator failed to properly terminate the[…]
The DA will bring a court challenge against legislation allowing for the arrest or removal of people who create a disturbance in the National Assembly, it said on Wednesday. The DA filed papers in the Western Cape High Court following last week’s removal of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs from the[…]
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[…]
South Africans have taken to social media to express their confusion over events at SONA 2015, as signals were jammed during what they described as the “most action packed moments within the National Assembly”. The claims of jammed signals in Parliament by media whose broadcasts were interrupted by regular audio[…]
An urgent application to prohibit the use of mobile network blocking devices in Parliament was postponed in the High Court in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon. The postponement follows negotiations between lawyers for Parliament and those for media houses Primedia Broadcasting and Media24. “Regrettably, those negotiations have failed,” Steven Budlender,[…]
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[…]
Two media houses and several organisations will bring an application in the High Court in Cape Town on Tuesday to prevent Parliament from jamming cellphone signals in future. “Primedia Broadcasting, together with Media24, the South African National Editors Forum [Sanef], Right to Know and the Open Democracy Advice Centre, will[…]
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