National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise said that no MP was compelled to attend, and that all safety precautions would be in place.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will spell out the government’s plan of action for the year during a joint sitting of both houses on 11 February.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Thandi Modise, granted the African Transformation Movement’s request to postpone the motion of no confidence debate against President Cyril Ramaphosa to February 2021. This comes after the ATM brought an application to the Western Cape High Court to review Modise’s decision to have the vote on the motion by open ballot. ATM insists it should be a secret ballot
The African Transformation Movement (ATM) said that it had gone to court to compel National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise to allow a secret ballot for voting on Thursday’s no-confidence motion in President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The motion was filed by the African Transformation Movement (ATM) earlier this year, before lockdown began.
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise announced late on Wednesday that retired Constitutional Court judge, Justice Bess Nkabinde, will chair the panel, which will include two senior counsel – advocates Dumisa Ntsebeza and Johan de Waal.
The official opposition and National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise on Thursday spelled out their arguments in the Western Cape High Court on why Mkhwebane should face a parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
Advocate Andrew Breitenbach, representing Speaker Thandi Modise, said that being accountable to Parliament was not only limited to reporting to it once a year.
The Western Cape High Court is hearing an urgent application to halt a parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
The search is still underway for three 'fit and proper' South Africans to make up the panel to look into the Democratic Alliance (DA)’s motion calling for the removal of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise and chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) Amos Masondo hailed her contribution to the freedom of the people of this country and said that her inspiring tenacity and strength would forever be etched in their minds.
Speaker Thandi Modise told today’s National Assembly programming committee meeting that she’d received a request for an urgent debate on gender-based violence and it had been agreed that a date for this should be found.
In an unprecedented move, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise was forced to briefly suspend proceedings after the EFF raised multiple points of order, each time the president started to speak.
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.
