JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says that his department will protect and defend the Afrikaans language in schools.
The MEC was responding to a report that around 119 schools which were either Afrikaans medium or dual-medium have been changed to English.
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JOHANNESBURG – The National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa (Nafupa SA) will be honouring former president Jacob Zuma for his selfless efforts in making South Africa a better country.
The association says that Zuma played a major role economically and socially during his time in office.
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Cyril Ramaphosa was immediately hailed as a breath of fresh air after the decade-long Jacob Zuma debacle. The nation forgot, or ignored, his role in Marikana while his prowess as a businessman was lauded. A sensible, urbane politician who would save the economy.
His recent Cabinet reshuffle, however, reveals much of the same. The executive remains bloated and, with cronies retaining influence, his reputation for clean governance is shaken. The national conversation, however, has swung to expropriation without compensation.
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Cape Town – The national government’s departmental “meltdowns” are having a bad effect on municipal budgets and normal services, mayoral committee member for safety, security and social services JP Smith said in Cape Town on Thursday.
“I must just say, for me, there is a pattern emerging,” he said.
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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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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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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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President Jacob Zuma issued a statement removing Nene from his post in December 2015, but the presidential address did not clearly outline the reasons behind Nene’s dismissal. He replaces Malusi Gigaba, who has moved on to Home Affairs.
Yet here he is, having the last laugh as he and JZ cross paths through the ANC’s revolving doors. We wanted to learn a bit more about him, and see what kind of politician we are getting back in cabinet
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Johannesburg – The African National Congress is expected to try to refocus the party on organisational matters in a two-day National Executive Committee meeting this weekend, amidst heavy speculation over a looming Cabinet reshuffle.
The political party’s previous NEC meetings were mainly focused on the question of former president Jacob Zuma, who was recalled by the party’s highest decision-making body two weeks ago.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa may have reduced foreign affairs to five sentences in his State of the Nation Address (SONA), but make no mistake, that is not an indication of the level of priority he attaches to international relations. It is through South Africa’s foreign relations that he will seek to achieve his domestic priorities.
The SONA was a clear articulation of those priorities – improving economic growth, which has been hovering around 1%, by increasing business confidence, wooing investors and expanding trade, which will translate into job creation and poverty reduction. These objectives cannot be achieved without a robust foreign policy that focuses on economic diplomacy.
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Durban – Political interference in the country’s law enforcement agencies is the greatest counter-argument to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a “new dawn”, the Economic Freedom Fighters said on Friday.
“It is the greatest threat to our democracy at the moment,” party spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told the Moerane Commission sitting in Mayville, Durban.
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Johannesburg – The DA has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to withdraw the “futile appeal, launched by his predecessor, Jacob Zuma” in the appointment of a new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP).
The DA’s federal council chairperson, James Selfe, said he hoped the decision signalled the end of Shaun Abrahams’ tenure as head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
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The Bishops of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa are concerned that citizens are effectively paying for the impact of corruption through a hike in Value-Added Tax (VAT).
The bishops expressed their “deep concern” at the hike by one percentage point to 15% announced in Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s “tough but hopeful” budget speech.
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Increases in fuel and in basic food prices will affect the poor most as a consequence of poor management over the last 9 years, the opposition leader says.
The poor are set to suffer due to the poor management of the country’s fiscus over the past nine years under former president Jacob Zuma, Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has said.
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How did a convict sentenced in 1996 to 10 years for robbery with aggravated circumstances find himself floating around the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung in 2012, flush with a cool R50-million aimed at stoking factional battles in the ANC?
Continuing the tradition at Nasrec in December 2017, pressure was also allegedly placed on the SAPS to launder R45-million to buy votes. Details of this and other horrors of the Shadow State were revealed by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate at a Scopa report-back on Tuesday. The clean-up has begun.
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