A parliamentary subcommittee will meet this week to draft procedures to change parts of parliamentary rules to remove a president. The proposal will then be tabled in the parliament for discussion. This follows after the Constitutional Court has given Parliament six months to put in place mechanisms to resign a president. Cyril Ramaphosa seems to..
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Zuma removed as president?
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Ramaphosa: Taking land will turn SA into the Garden of Eden
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South Africa could turn into the ultimate paradise with the implementation of the policy of expropriation of land without compensation, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said in Nongoma, Kwazulu-Natal on Sunday. “In fact, it is possible for us to begin a process of working the land and improving agriculture – making it a very successful factor..
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Will Marxism Destroy Marxist Universities? EFF threatens to bring universities to a complete standstill
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The EFF further threatened universities after their initial call that prospective students should should just show up at their ideal university to register after Jacob Zuma promised free tertiary education. In the EFF’s latest statement, they threaten to bring the institutions to a complete standstill if “walk-in” students are not allowed. According to Peter Keetse..
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Rand is slowly losing steam after realizing there is not much difference between Zuma and Ramaphosa’s policies
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The rand is slowly losing steam after the initial recovery following Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as president of the ANC. All the optimism about a new “president” is slowly decreasing and economists believe that the currency is falling back and aligned with previous dissertations. This comes just after Ramaphosa’s land grab threats to seize land without..
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Total collapse of state-owned enterprises under Minister Brown
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The Democratic Alliance’s Natasha Mazzone has, once again, slammed Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown. Eskom remains in the spotlight. The Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises Natasha Mazzone has become quite a political “big name” over the last few months. Her grilling of Lynne Brown during the Eskom inquiry gathered particular attention. Now,..
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Former acting CEO of Eskom’s back at his desk on Monday after ‘sham hearing’
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Matshela Koko, former acting CEO of Eskom will be back at work on Monday January 8 in the role of head of generation‚ according to Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. The information that Koko had been reinstated was sent in an internal memo from acting CEO Sean Maritz to senior Eskom staff on Tuesday and was..
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UDM wants urgent explanation of free higher education
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The UDM wants President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet to urgently spell out his plan for free higher education to avoid a “commotion” at registration. “One can argue that President Zuma’s announcement of free tertiary education for students who can’t afford it, is a populist Hail Mary pass; but the United Democratic Movement (UDM) believes..
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Mogoeng’s ‘very serious’ attack on majority judgment difficult to comprehend
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When does a court overreach and thus intrude into a domain exclusively reserved for the executive or the legislature? In an unusually harsh minority judgment, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was clear that the majority of the Constitutional Court had done just that in ordering Parliament to introduce a mechanism to deal with the possible impeachment..
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ConCourt: Parliament has failed to hold Zuma to account
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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the National Assembly failed to put in place mechanisms to hold President Zuma accountable. The EFF, Cope and the UDM asked the highest court to compel Parliament to hold the president to account after its Nkandla judgement. Judge Chris Jafta, reading the orders, said the National Assembly failed to..
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The ruling party moves for land, and the Reserve Bank
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The ANC will seek to amend the constitution of the country to allow for expropriation of land without compensation and will also nationalise the South African Reserve Bank, the party announced on Wednesday night. The contentious announcement was made just before the close of its 54th national conference on Wednesday night. The sectoral commission on..
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Zuma: Ramaphosa can not be my co-President
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Even as the high court in Pretoria was delivering a series of nasty blows to President Jacob Zuma in a judgment on Wednesday, his legal team filed an application to appeal his most immediate prior loss: the stripping of his power to appoint the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). On Friday the court..
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South Africa’s race relations laid bare in Steinhoff scandal
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South Africans are fond of debating whether public or private sector failings are the bigger problem. It does not take too long to realise that they are really talking about race. This is evident as the country faces an unusual scandal – one involving a private company called Steinhoff. The multinational furniture company is in..
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ANC’s plan to steal property places South Africa on Zimbabwean road
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The civil rights watchdog AfriForum says that the ANC’s decision to amend South Africa’s Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation boils down to a decision to commit theft and to place the country on the same road of destruction that Zimbabwe followed in its violation of property rights. According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum,..
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