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ANC top 6 to meet with Zuma over his snubbing of the State Capture commission
Jacob Zuma defied a ConCourt order to appear before the commission. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the message for his predecessor was very simple: he must...
The league told journalists during a media briefing earlier on Friday that Dlamini took its national executive committee into confidence giving details behind the saga, which it described as cheap politics.
The league held a media briefing following its national executive committee meeting, saying it was visiting former leaders in the former liberation movement.
He said no one was above the law, including former President Jacob Zuma, who has defied a Constitutional Court order by refusing to appear before the Zondo commission.
ANCWL’s president Bathabile Dlamini during its post-national executive committee meeting on Thursday morning hailed the judgment, calling on other courts to follow the footsteps of the western cape high court.
The South African electoral system does not provide a sufficient link between the citizen and the elected representative, writes Judith February.
Cosatu told journalists that its central executive committee felt that the ANC was struggling to function as a unitary organisation, with some leaders even showing disdain for the party’s own rules.
The trade union federation told journalists at a media briefing on Thursday following its three-day meeting that the ongoing public sector wage dispute is a binding contract that cannot simply be wished away.
Mkhize on Thursday afternoon addressed the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) about the vaccine rollout.
This follows the failure by the former director of Swifambo Rail Auswell Mashaba to appear after he was summoned to testify on Wednesday.
The EFF said that in the light of there being no clear indication that the 2021 municipal polls set for November would be postponed, political parties should be allowed to gather and campaign.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)'s Geordin Hill-Lewis said that it was concerning that Mboweni did not mention what would happen to state-owned entities such as South African Airways (SAA).
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has instructed the secretary of the commission to lay a criminal complaint against Auswell Mashaba.
He was speaking at a briefing after delivering his Budget speech on Wednesday afternoon.
It said the current level 3 lockdown restrictions prohibit political parties from engaging in programmes that hold government accountable and doesn’t allow for campaigning to take place ahead of local government elections set for November.
Several small gatherings, in line with COVID-19 regulations, were expected to take place around the country to highlight challenges such as unemployment which now sits at 32.5%.
The court set the 17 May as the date for the commencement of the trial, following input from both the State and the accused.
Opposition parties said that all indications were that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni would slap South Africans with a tax increase.
ANC Northern Cape secretary Deshi Ngxanga said secretary general Ace Magashule’s insistence that guidelines for the implementation of the step aside resolution must first be approved by the party’s branches, was simply wrong