National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete is inciting violence against the EFF by describing them as thugs and party leader Julius Malema as a cockroach, it said on Sunday. “No amount of conspiracy theories, intimidation, usage of violence or threats of assassination will deter us from holding this corrupt ANC government[…]
As the country watched the drama unfolding at the State of the Nation address on Thursday evening, there was very little focus on the president’s actual speech and whether South Africa had shown any positive progress over the past year. Public attention was focused on the EFF, whose members were[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton I stay in the city bowl area near to parliament. For the past 22 years I’ve witnessed the preparations for the State of the Nation address at close quarters. Each February it has always been a much-anticipated ceremony, a ceremony signalling the start of the parliamentary[…]
The ANC and the EFF turned Parliament into a national embarrassment on Thursday, the DA said. “At a time when South Africa is in crisis, the constitutional role of Parliament has been severely undermined today, and the real issues that matter to South Africans have been forgotten,” DA Parliamentary leader[…]
Government takes the energy situation in the country very seriously, Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown said on Thursday following the state-of-the-nation address. “That is why it has a war room that constitutes any department that affects energy in the country,” she said. “It is the almost most single important issue[…]
Parliament should take stern action against members of the Economic Freedom Fighters who disrupted President Jacob Zuma’s state-of-the-nation address, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Thursday night. “Such behaviour and conduct cannot and must not be tolerated and we urge Parliament to apply the rules and take stern[…]
Amid wide expectations that the red-bereted Economic Freedom Fighters would shake up this year’s State of the Nation address, the annual event got off to a tense start. The day started off with police bolstered in around the city as DA and EFF supporters protested against President Jacob Zuma. Police[…]
An annual event filled with pomp, protocol and a charming ceremonial appeal devolved into chaos on Thursday evening, as members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) were forcibly removed from the National Assembly for disrupting President Jacob Zuma’s 2015 State of the Nation Address. Journalists and broadcasters watched in shock[…]
DA Parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane demanded to know if the police were used to remove EFF MPs from the National Assembly on Thursday. “To remove the members of the EFF… if by police… I request we cannot allow police to enter this chamber,” he said. “We want to be here[…]
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema on Thursday asked Speaker Baleka Mbete to show him which rule prevented him from asking questions during the president’s state of the nation address. “Point us the rule that gives you power to deny us this,” he said. “I’m not working for you, I’m[…]
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