Zulu Royal Family denies deploying amaButho to Nkandla to support Zuma
The Prime Minister to the Zulu nation and monarch Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday said the regiments and their leader Zihogo Nhleko acted in defiance.
The Prime Minister to the Zulu nation and monarch Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday said the regiments and their leader Zihogo Nhleko acted in defiance.
ANC KZN chairperson Sihle Zikalala said they were currently trying to fix differences within key sectors of society as Zuma’s debacle had reignited concerning divisions amid threats of defiance by his supporters.
Jacob Zuma has filed the papers to the apex court on Friday ahead of Sunday’s deadline to hand himself over to a police station in Nkandla or Johannesburg where he has homes.
The clock is ticking for former President Jacob Zuma to hand himself over to the police – with the five day deadline ending on Sunday.
They say there is little room for success given that the Constitutional Court is the country’s final arbiter of the law.
News24 is also states that Zuma is expected to file an urgent application for the recission of the Constitutional Court ruling that he be imprisoned for 15 months for contempt.
Civil society organisations and opposition political parties in the city have a very different understanding of his performance. Nzuza who was paid R3,29 million annually had 10 months left on his five-year contract.
One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane, who was the first person to ask the president about the campaign while still leader of the opposition in Parliament, said there were key lessons to be learned from Thursday’s judgment.
The apex court ruled that there was no evidence to support Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s findings that there was laundering during the CR17 campaign or that President Cyril Ramaphosa and his son personally benefited from the campaign.
The legal battle centres on a half a million-rand donation to Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to become ANC president and the public protectors finding that as President of South Africa, Ramaphosa had misled Parliament about that donation.
Zuma's older brother on Wednesday addressed the media outside the infamous KwaDakudunuse homestead, with the former president's response expected soon to Tuesday's scathing court ruling against him.
Edward Zuma said the Constitutional Court's decision against his father was unjust, and adherence to COVID-19 regulations was not a priority at the moment.
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday sentenced the former president to 15 months in jail after finding him guilty of contempt of court.
During an interview on Radio 702 on Monday, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said unions must stop demanding salary increases for workers so that government can offer relief to businesses hit hard by the lockdown.
On Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced new restrictions that mainly impact businesses in the hospitality, alcohol, and service industries in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration is facing widespread criticism because less than 1% of the population has been fully inoculated against COVID-19.
Retired Judge Dikgang Moseneke has the task of determining whether free and fair elections are possible amid pandemic related lockdowns on a very tight deadline.
According to the Commission for Employment Equity’s latest report, white people constitute 9% of the economically active population (EAP) but occupy 64.7% of top management positions. Indian people make up 2.8% of the EAP but occupy 10.6% of top-level positions.