Response written by Mark Philip Malcolm Horn – London Barrister. * No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief.
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A British Legal Expert’s Opinion On Illegal “Expropriation Of Land Without Compensation”
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It has started: First step to land expropriation without compensation
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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 EFF rejects Ramaphosa’s Cabinet reshuffle
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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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Cabinet reshuffle: A new dawn in the economic cluster
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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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New deputy president, finance minister announced in major Cabinet reshuffle
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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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Stolen land returned? Only a few bushmen wouldn’t be homeless
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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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“New deputy president is a fatal compromise”: says DA leader
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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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New Cabinet who is in, who is out?
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JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his new Cabinet at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday night.
Deputy President:
David Mabuza
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Ramaphosa To Earn R700,000.00 Per Year More Than Predecessor Jacob Zuma
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According to the budget tabled by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba in Parliament on Wednesday, Ramaphosa will earn just over R3.6 million this year.
He’s one of South Africa’s richest men, but new President Cyril Ramaphosa will be earning just over R3.6 million this year, according to the budget tabled by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba in Parliament on Wednesday.
His new deputy stands to earn slightly less, at R3.2 million.
President Ramaphosa will earn around R700,000 a year more than his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.
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Nkandla 2.0 – Ramaphosa Is Quietly Building A Sprawling Mansion On His R30 Million Plot In Cape Town
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Nestled under Lion’s Head, the world’s most hiked mountain, President Cyril Ramaphosa is quietly building a massive private home on two plots of prime land that he bought for R30 million in 2010 — even though he now has an official residence in Cape Town.
It is nowhere near the size of former President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, but it has one of the best views in Cape Town: a 180-degree panorama of the Atlantic Ocean, including Robben Island. On a clear day, Ramaphosa may just be able to see the very cell where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 18 years.
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Cyril Ramaphosa – Reshuffle: Whose heads will roll?
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce a Cabinet reshuffle by next Friday amid growing calls to fire ministers implicated in state capture.
The ministers seen as being compromised or underperforming are Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, Water Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, Co-operative Governance Minister Des van Rooyen,
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Malusi Gigaba – Prepare for a tough budget
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has been pressuring the finance ministry to reduce spending and increase revenue, and South Africans should thus prepare for another tough budget, finance minister Malusi Gigaba told the Mail & Guardian.
Amid speculation that Gigaba could be reshuffled out of the paramount ministry by Ramaphosa after his takeover as head of state,
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Only stagnant pools remain after the Zunami
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Former president Jacob Zuma’s rambling monologue on the SABC on Wednesday afternoon wasn’t just an arrogant, delusional act of defiance in the face of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) instruction to step down as head of state.
It was his final act of working outside the structures of the governing party, and of the state, and of using the resources that his deployment to government had enabled him to pursue his own agenda, often to the detriment of both.
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SABC Anchor To Take Break After after mistakenly announcing that new President Cyril Ramaphosa had died
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Popular SABC news anchor Peter Ndoro is taking a break from his slot to rest after mistakenly announcing that new President Cyril Ramaphosa had died.
On Thursday night during his 6 o’clock news bulletin, Ndoro erroneously referred to Ramaphosa while he was reading a story about Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died earlier this week.
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‘Tired’ Dlamini-Zuma Wants Out Of Parliament – Or Is She Jumping Ship?
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Will ANC MP Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma be part of Cyril Ramaphosa’s new administration? Maybe, maybe not.
After losing a bruising battle for the presidency of the ANC in December, the former African Union Commission chairwoman has apparently told Ramaphosa she wants to step down as a National Assembly member.
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