The ANC national executive committee (NEC) has reportedly resolved to recall President Jacob Zuma at its meeting in Irene on Monday.
This follows Zuma’s refusal to step down following the NEC’s declining to grant him a three-month “notice period”.
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Parliament – Speaker Baleka Mbete on Monday turned down a request by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to bring forward the debate on their latest motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma as he resists pressure from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to resign.
“The Speaker has responded in the negative,” an opposition source said.
Mbete had scheduled the vote on the motion for the February 22, the day after the government is due to table the national budget for 2018.
But the EFF asked for it to take place earlier after a week of talks between Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to bring the embattled president to resign.
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In a recent video interview by Lauren Southern with a representative of BFLF (Black Fist Land Fist) it is unbelievable that ‘WAR’ is openly discussed as there only option to take over the land. The racist hatred comments spewing from this representative is reprehensible.
The ongoing farm attacks, farm murders, pillage of white property and murders of whites is out of control and clearly the result of this kind of rhetoric.
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The parliament’s Portfolio Committee of Justice and Correctional Services called on the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, to appear before them regarding controversial statements she made in public.
It is also claimed that her office has suppressed or hidden evidence in certain investigations.
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President Jacob Zuma can not hold the ANC and the whole of South Africa hostage, by insisting that his legal costs be paid and that he will be given a possible pardon against prosecution, says Dr. Pieter Groenewald, leader of the FF Plus.
Dr. Groenewald says Cyril Ramaphosa, president of the ANC, is currently losing his coup over the ANC and has missed a golden opportunity when the meeting of the ANC National Executive Committee (NUC) was suspended last Wednesday.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) said it was an insult to South Africans that President Jacob Zuma, according to reports, demanded a host of conditions as part of his removal of president.
The DA’s federal council chairperson James Selfe said on Sunday it was unthinkable and an insult to South Africans should he be granted his wishes after breaking his oath of office and disrespecting the constitution.
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Once upon a time, more than a quarter of a century ago, Port St John was a lovely tourist town on the East Coast of South Africa…a place of breathtaking beauty, scenes of nature to inspire the artist and orderly, maintained lovely buildings speaking of a proud history and a bright future.
And then African democracy arrived….
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Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has been accused of interfering in a mine sale by giving instructions that his preferred BEE partner be chosen over other prospective partners.
Zwane is said to have told a Chinese-led consortium to overlook one of the prospective BEE partners in favour of another. The identity of that partner is not known.
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The State of the Nation address was not the only major event postponed this week. The ANC has also postponed its visit to Nelson Mandela’s Qunu homestead in Eastern Cape to lay wreaths at his grave this weekend.
It was agreed with family at Qunu last month that the laying of wreaths would take place on February 11‚ the day Mandela was released from Robben Island where he served his sentence for terrorism and treason charges.
Instead‚ the ANC’s leadership will be in the Western Cape to commemorate the day.
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Johannesburg: It’s understood that African National Congress (ANC) leader Cyril Ramaphosa and President Jacob Zuma are in the final phase of their negotiations around Zuma’s exit plan
The two leaders are scheduled to meet again this weekend to iron out the details of the plan.
These are said to include discussions around Zuma’s current and future legal fees as well as the security of his family.
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After consumers had boycotted the Spur restaurant group, which resulted in several branches closing their doors after their racist behaviour, the same consumers threatened with two more boycotts.
Readers of the Afrikaans Family Magazine, Huisgenoot, are highly shocked at the magazine’s extremely positive report about the soon to be third child of white and Afrikaner hater Julius Malema . Malema is notorious for singing songs such as “Shoot the Farmer” and the like, and readers believe he deserves no place in an Afrikaans magazine, especially because it is so positively presented.
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On Wednesday morning, Baleka Mbete was asked in an eNCA interview how President Jacob Zuma “seemed” when she broke the news to him that he would not be permitted to address the House.
“He looked like the ordinary Jacob Zuma,” she responded, “always ready to laugh at life.”
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Johannesburg- DA leader Mmusi Maimane is calling on the speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, to rechedule an urgent sitting of Parlement, on Thuesday,to allow MPs to debate and vote om the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma Mbete has scheduled the motion of no confidence in Zuma for 22 February. Maimane..
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Less than two months after taking over the leadership of the ruling party, Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a key test of his authority: President Jacob Zuma just wont go away Zuma initially defied a decision by top leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) that he should quit, but his exit seemed imminent when parliament..
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It now seems a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ President Jacob Zuma will step down. With ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and other members of the top six reportedly frustrated by their efforts to get Msholozi to step down gracefully,these are the options available to them.
Vote of no confidence
Zuma’s enemies have previously sought to topple him with parliamentary votes of no confidence.
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