Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema clashed head-on with the rules of Parliament when delivering his maiden speech on Wednesday afternoon.
Honourable readers, we all know it is important to know what it is our government has said they’ll do so we can hold them accountable, but good gracious was it long winded and soporific! Anything really get you riled up?
Really, you have to see this cartoon. Why people are getting their knickers so wound up is… well you have a look and see what you think. Is this a well made fake?
Zuma reveals his new cabinet, with a few surprises in tow.
This trend in political thinking is absolutely shocking! Slating criticism as too clever? Come on Jacob….don’t be a child.
OMG the ANC appear to be making a musical! And the lucky target market: The Western Cape. Complete with Kaapse-Liedtjies, a brass band and a little Mandela name dropping. Must see!
Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela has been named by Time Magazine as one of their 100 most influential people in the world. They called her “South Africa’s fearless public advocate.” Go Thuli!
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report has a lot of ANC figures and lawyers coming out of the woodwork in Jacob Zuma’s defence. But she’s not scared. Madonsela thinks that people should stop protecting the president as if he was a “child or a victim.”
Beleaguered president Jacob Zuma has indicated that his R246 million homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal could face listing on the real estate market in the coming months, as the president struggles to raise the millions owed to South African tax payers following the construction of a swimming pool, amphitheatre, and chicken run at his private home.
Jacob Zuma has responded to a damning report into the construction of his R246 million Nkandla homestead by the Public Protector, who found that Zuma had ”benefited unduly” from the construction of non-security features including a swimming pool, amphitheatre, kraal, cattle culvert and chicken run, and that he ought to pay back the money used in their construction.
Zuma and some other high ranking members of the ANC have made a couple of controversial statements over the years. Here are a couple of gems from key figures in the ruling party.
With the report by the Public Protector finally out, let’s take a walk down memory lane and see where R246 million ended up being spent. Nkandla’s humble beginnings to the extravagant compound that it has become, have been documented in a series of photographs.
The “Secure in Comfort” report by the Public Protector is over 400 pages of devastating findings, that will in most likelihood be used as loo paper by the government. The ANC refuses to see it at all. Even if the results end up being benign, as journalist Richard Poplank puts it, Zuma “will be forever remembered as a thief, a fool, and a Zulu man who was incapable of managing the affairs of his kraal.”
The report by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found President Jacob Zuma has misled Parliament when he claimed the Zuma family paid for the costs of buildings in Nkandla.
In an open letter addressed to President Zuma, DA leader Helen Zille has challenged the acting president to a debate. The United States have televised presidential election debates, why shouldn’t we? Calling on Zuma to participate in a debate regarding the country’s economy, Helen Zille’s letter is below in its entirety.
ANC branches in Gauteng have included former president Thabo Mbeki in a list of individuals they would like to see in Parliament.
It’s been nearly 20 years to the day since the ANC released their 1994 national election list. Though some of the members on the list are now deceased, the ones that survive help give us an indication of how Zuma is perceived by the ANC big fish.
On the one hand, this video is absolutely hilarious and should be viewed by every one of us South Africans.
Speaking at the ANC’s 102nd birthday celebrations at KaNyamazane near Nelspruit, Jacob urged the crowed to vote for the ANC, in order to allow the party to change unspecified aspects of the country’s constitution.
This open letter to Jacob Zuma was written by South African academic, Barney Pityana in February of this year. Given Jacob Zuma’s recent dip in public popularity, it’s no surprise that the letter is enjoying a renewed bout of attention. In the letter, Pityana says South Africa is “in shambles, and the quality of life of […]
A nine-meter tall statue of our storied former President was yesterday unveiled at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Less than a week after the death of Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma has signed into law the Protection Of State Information Bill. Zuma would have inked the paper mere metres from the body of late President Nelson Mandela, who lies in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
When the world’s elite gathered inside the FNB stadium on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, South Africans inside the stadium took the opportunity to voice their concerns over Jacob Zuma’s leadership capabilities.
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The memorial service of one of the world’s most-loved politicians will be taking place on Tuesday at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, and scores of politicians from across the planet are expected to arrive in this week in order to pay their respects.
2013 has been the year of online petitions. Whether they have any effect besides voicing the displeasure, is up for debate. Nevertheless, what may well be the last viral South African petition of 2013 is currently in blossom, and it’s calling for Parliament to impeach Jacob Zuma. The petition calls for the impeachment of Zuma […]
This is a truly sad day for us all. Some may have woken to the news of Mandela’s passing, while others may have struggled to sleep after hearing the news last night. Either way, we have all been affected. We are all involved. We all feel this loss.
While the ANC was busy pointing fingers at Thuli Madonsela for leaking the Nkandla report, South Africa slipped to its lowest-ever spot on the global corruption charts.
Public protector, Thuli Madonsela, has come through with the goods yet again. This time, they come in the form of three damning reports that expose gross misconduct, deceit, unlawful acts and outright corruption at the highest level of government.
Thuli Madonsela, you biscuit. The public protector’s provisional Nkandla report has found that our president has “derived substantial personal benefit from works that exceeded security needs,”and must repay the state.