President Jacob Zuma is expected to meet Elsies River residents for a “fight against crime” imbizo on Tuesday. This follows Zuma’s visit to the family of three-year-old Courtney Pieters on May 18. Courtney was last seen playing in the street near her home on May 4. Her body was found in a shallow grave next to abandoned railroad tracks in Epping on May 13. Mortimer Saunders, 40, who apparently rented […]
Not only does the Democratic Alliance want to lay criminal charges against President Jacob Zuma after the weekend's e-mail leaks which shed light on the Guptas' influence on the state, it also wants Parliament to establish an ad hoc committee to deal with state capture. DA leader Mmusi Maimane said Parliament must do its job to hold the executive accountable through the committee, but it cannot stop there. Therefore he […]
The African National Congress is expected to brief the media on Monday on whether President Jacob Zuma survived another round of claims that his son's business partners, the Guptas, are involved in ministerial appointments. The party's National Executive Committee (NEC) met between Friday and Sunday at the St George's Hotel on the outskirts of the capital Pretoria as three separate media exposes made claims against the Treasury, Zuma, and key […]
The Constitutional Court will hear the EFF’s bid to have President Jacob Zuma impeached on September 5. The EFF took Speaker Baleka Mbete to court to force Parliament to discipline President Jacob Zuma for failing to uphold the Constitution. EFF leader Julius Malema said in February they wanted direct access to the Constitutional Court after the court found that Zuma failed to uphold the Constitution when he failed to implement […]
The need for drastic economic reform cannot justify the widespread looting of state coffers, while the current state capture networks active in South Africa pose a dire threat to the country's long-term future. These were some of the sentiments shared by a group of academics gathered at the Wits Business School in Johannesburg on Thursday, where the State Capacity Research Project (SCRP) launched a scathing report on state capture and […]
A group of ANC stalwarts has urged the party's National Executive Committee to consider recalling President Jacob Zuma as head of government. The veterans have written to secretary general Gwede Mantashe. They want the request tabled during the governing party's NEC meeting, which begins today (Friday). It's the first time the group has collectively called for Zuma's removal. The stalwarts also want the party's top brass to remove from government […]
President Jacob Zuma is expected to host an Africa Day Celebration at Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on Thursday. The Presidency said Africa Day was celebrated annually on May 25 to mark the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963 and the African Union (AU) in 2002, as well as to chart the progress made by the continent since 1994. This year’s theme is […]
Fired ministers are now using Parliament as a battleground to fight President Jacob Zuma, political analyst Ralph Mathekga said. On Tuesday former Finance minister Pravin Gordhan led the grilling of his former colleague in cabinet Lynne Brown and the Eskom board for their flip-flopping over the return of Eskom boss Brian Molefe. Gordhan on his debut appearance in the parliamentary committee on public enterprises openly accused Brown and board chairperson […]
The water crisis in the Western Cape will lead to war and deaths unless urgent steps are taken soon, Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) said on Wednesday. "We know that we have asked for you to step down, but whilst you are still president we bring this urgent matter to your attention," the trade union said in a short open letter to President Jacob Zuma. "The rich have […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
