The budget for Sona, which takes place next week Thursday, has come down drastically over the years and Speaker Thandi Modise said the cost-cutting would continue.
Friday is the deadline for political parties represented in Parliament to submit names to serve on an independent panel to look into the motion to remove Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise said presiding officers and Parliament management had not had discussions about any possible disruptions.
Mkhwebane wants the process looking into her possible removal scrapped, saying it didn’t make provisions for the recusal of conflicted parties.
Political parties are currently putting together a list of names to serve on an independent panel to consider the motion's merits and whether Busisiwe Mkhwebane should be removed after National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise approved a DA motion calling for her removal.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she wanted to resolve the matter amicably and not in court.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said that she had written to Speaker Thandi Modise to reconsider her decision and suspend the process.
Last week, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise approved a motion by the DA asking Parliament to initiate proceedings to remove Mkhwebane.
The fresh calls for Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s removal come after Parliament adopted new rules for the removal of a Public Protector.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants MPs to put on hold their Christmas celebrations and holidays and head back to Parliament to debate and come up with solutions for the load shedding crisis.
Lobby group AfriForum wants her to answer for allegedly neglecting her North West farm in 2014 which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 pigs and other animals.
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise told the National Assembly’s programming committee that a number of parties wrote to her asking for an urgent debate on the matter.
They said that the violence was driven by communities on both sides and the tensions were revealing disturbing trends of lawlessness characterised by assaults against law enforcement officers, retaliatory attacks and looting of shops.
The National Assembly’s rules committee must come up with a specific process for dealing with the removal from office of the Public Protector, Parliament’s justice committee has decided.
The Justice Committee said that the National Assembly Speaker's office had asked it to look into a request in this regard.
The Presidency budget vote will cover the work of Ramaphosa's office as the nerve centre of government, overseeing the programme of action of all national government departments.
DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen wrote to the speaker to initiate the process.
The party has written to new National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise asking her to initiate a parliamentary inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness for office.
