Public healthcare services were better during apartheid than they are now under the ANC government, EFF leader Julius Malema claimed on Monday.
Malema was referring to what he called a “national health crisis”, which, he said, the EFF is planning to expose.
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The controversial media pundit’s trip to South Africa has gone from bad to worse as airport authorities took her passport and briefly prevented her from leaving South Africa after being accused by the country’s authorities of ‘spreading racial hatred’.
The outspoken media pundit, who has had a dramatic week after collapsing in the street and taking ketamine for an agonising shoulder dislocation, revealed she’s been temporarily banned from getting on her flight home but was eventually allowed to go and tweeted that she was “out of South Africa with the evidence”.
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Johannesburg- An “arrogant” Zuma told ANC’s top six during their meeting on Sunday night that the “people still love him”, sources inside the party’s national working committee (NWC) said.
The officials gave the NWC feedback following their two hours of deliberations with Zuma, during which they asked him to resign.
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Ironically, when Jacob Zuma (President of South Africa) became the president of ANC for the first time, this is what he had to say about the removal/recall of Thabo Mbeki.
“I think the correct feeling has been, which I share, you can’t say uhm……..” and he rambles on in his idiotic way.
Very interesting that his now facing a possibility of being recalled himself.
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The European Parliamentary Group ENF has recently acknowledged and debated the failures of Mandela’s “Rainbow Nation”.
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The newly appointed deputy president of the ANC, David Mabuza, has received a protection order against him that prevents him from interfering with Frederick Daniel’s business interests, as well as preventing him from contacting Daniel’s family and employers.
Daniel, a developer and environmental keeper, claims that Mabuza has impaired or prevented his application for permits.
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Witnesses in the tribunal in Pretoria have linked two French presidents with Zuma and Mbeki around the arms scandal.
According to Ajay Sooklal, Jacques Chirac has requested Thabo Mbeki to persuade the National Prosecuting Authority to pay no attention to an investigation into the Thales arms manufacturer.
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The ANC national working committee (NWC) wants the Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete, to postpone Thursday’s state of the nation address (Sona) until President Jacob Zuma is kicked out of office.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa was expected to meet Mbete and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson Thandi Modise on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of postponing Sona until President Zuma leaves office in line with the NWC’s resolution taken during its meeting on Monday night.
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The #ZumaMustGo group has threatend with a national shutdown a day after their march to ANC headcourters Lethuli House on Monday
Durban – The Metro Police are on high alert after a report of a national shutdown on Tuesday in an attempt to force President Jacob Zuma out of office.
The #ZumaMustGo group has threatened a national shutdown a day after their march to ANC headquarters Luthuli House on Monday.
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Julius Malema revealed that the EFF was considering interdicting Zuma from delivering the State of the Nation Address
EFF leader Julius Malema has called on the ANC to leave President Jacob Zuma to the EFF.
“Leave him to us. It looks like this guy has defeated you‚” Malema said following the party’s plenum meeting held over the weekend in Braamfontein‚ Johannesburg.
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Johannesburg. Chaos erupted outside Lethuli House as members of the ANC clashed with BLF members. The BLF members marched to Lethuli house to deliver a memorandum to the ANC top 6, to state that President Zuma must finish his term as the President of South-Africa.
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has told the party’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial congress that it needs to go beyond “taking on the man from Nkandla” and turn itself into a stable government wherever it had taken power because of the easy target President Jacob Zuma had presented.
Maimane told the congress, held in Durban, that while the party had achieved what many would have thought impossible by taking the Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Johannesburg Metros, it had also made serious gains in KwaZulu-Natal in the 2016 local government elections. The DA now had branches all over the province and had increased its number of councillors from 150 councillors to 201, an increase of 11.88% of the vote in 2011 to 17.4% in 2016.
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South African President Jacob Zuma, speaking from the African Union summit in Ethiopia, believes corruption is of ‘exaggerated’ in Africa, and that the cause lies with ‘outside forces’.
According to Zuma, he has never taken a rand that belongs to the South African government to enrich himself as been widely speculated and will never contemplate doing that as it is against his oath of office and allegiance to the nation.
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President Jacob Zuma is adamant he will deliver his State of the Nation address (Sona) on Thursday, despite calls for him to step down.
The Mail & Guardian has reliably learned that Zuma told senior ANC leaders during a meeting at his official residence this week that he would reject any attempts to force him out as the country’s highest office before Sona.
“He [Zuma] has made it clear he would not accept any decision influenced by any ‘counter-revolutionaries’, including opposition parties. He said if it meant he should face impeachment and lose all his presidential benefits, he was prepared for that as a matter of principle,” said an ANC insider close to Zuma.
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The Economic Freedom Fighters’ request for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma has been scheduled for February 22, a day after the budget speech.
Parliament’s presiding officers on Thursday said they had rejected the EFF’s request to hold the motion before next week’s State of the Nation Address (SONA).
This year’s SONA will go ahead as planned next week, irrespective of who is president of the country, they said.
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