The ANC remains divided about its resolution to expropriate land without compensation, despite the historic vote in Parliament this week to start the process to amend the Constitution.
The motion was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters and supported by the ANC, but it included a caveat that expropriation would only take place if food security and economic stability were guaranteed.
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The Nelson Mandela Foundation is launching a campaign to declare any display of the old South African flag as a form of hate speech.
Eye Witness News started an online poll about how many South Africans support this idea.
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The National Assembly has just voted in favour of beginning a process so that the Constitution can be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation.
On Tuesday, 324 of 400 MPs sat in the National Assembly to vote on the motion that was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA), Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), as well as the Freedom Front Plus (FF plus) are planning to Boycott Premier Ace Magashule’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) tomorrow evening.
DA leader, Roy Jankielsohn, said that opposition parties in the Free State will not be supporting any attempts Magashule may have to grandstand in the province, and what will end up being a going-away party at the taxpayer’s expense.
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The ANC has welcome president Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to reshuffle his cabinet. Ramaphosa made the announcement of his new cabinet on Monday evening at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
“As the ANC, we particularly commend the President for having exercised this prerogative in consultation with the National Officials of the ANC and our Alliance Partners. Undoubtedly, this act of giving due regard to the resolutions of the African National Congress, in the exercise of the prerogative bestowed upon the President, lays a strong foundation for greater alignment and cooperation between the ANC and its cadres deployed in government,” said the ANC in the statement.
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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has rejected President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet reshuffle, saying it was a realignment of corrupt and “delinquent” ministers.
In a statement, EFF national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the changes were not in the best interests of South Africans.
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Less than two weeks after he hinted that change was coming, President Cyril Ramaphosa made sweeping changes to his cabinet, including the return of Nhlanhla Nene as the finance minister.
Other major changes to key economic portfolios include the appointment of Pravin Gordhan to the ministry of public enterprises to replace Lynne Brown; the appointment of ANC chairperson,
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Cape Town – On Tuesday, the National Assembly will decide whether to proceed with a process to amend the Constitution to make expropriation of land without compensation possible, as the EFF’s motion in this regard is expected to be debated.
The draft resolution, brought by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, states that “South Africa has a unique history of brutal dispossession of land from black people by the settler colonial white minority” and continues that this has left an “indelible mark on social, political and economic landscape of the country, and has helped create a society based on exploitation of black people and sustenance of white domination”.
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ANC deputy president David Mabuza will be the next deputy president of South Africa once he is sworn in as an MP. In a televised address to the nation on Monday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced major changes to Cabinet, signalling a reversal of some of former president Jacob Zuma’s most controversial Cabinet appointments.
Ramaphosa also announced that Nhlanhla Nene would be appointed as new finance minister, once he had been sworn in as an MP. Zuma fired Nene in December 2015 and replaced him with Van Rooyen,
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One cannot help to wonder whether Ramaphosa, Malema and Mngxitama, in saying that land must be “returned to those it was stolen from”, actually means that it should go back to the Khoisan people?
That, in fact, would mean that everybody in SA, apart from a few Kalahari Bushmen, would be homeless.
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Pandor was Ramaphosa’s top pick to be his Deputy President when he ran for the ANC leadership last year. However, party support never mobilised for her, and the position eventually went to David Mabuza. Now, she has brand new responsibilities ahead of her, as a key member of Ramaphosa’s cabinet.
Mrs Pandor has usually gone about her business quietly, so you’d be forgiven for not knowing much about her. So here are five quick facts that bring you right up to date with the new Minister of Higher Education Minister.
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Though he’s no longer the minister of police, he will always be the Chief Minister of Twitter.
Amid all the build-up to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet reshuffle announcment, Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula already accepted he’d been fired.
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PRETORIA – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to name African National Congress (ANC) deputy president David Mabuza as the country’s deputy in a late night Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, is a “fatal compromise” the Democratic Alliance said.
“Tonight we saw the fatal compromise Cyril Ramaphosa made at Nasrec exposed for all to see, as David Mabuza will be sworn in as the deputy president of South Africa,” DA leader Mmusi Maimane said.
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In 2005, Mabuza was elected as deputy chairperson of the ANC in the province, which culminated in him being elected as chairperson in 2008.
In the run-up to the ANC’s 2007 elective conference, Mabuza played a key role in Jacob Zuma’s rise to presidency. He was part of a group of provincial leaders called the “Premier League” who were staunch supporters of Zuma.
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