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By: Carien du Plessis, City Press
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Johannesburg – ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said action should have been taken against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MPs when they disrupted Thursday’s parliamentary question session with President Jacob Zuma, City Press reports.
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The ANC Youth League needs R21 million to pay for its upcoming elective conference – and the ANC is set to foot the bill.
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The ANC Youth League needs R21 million to pay for its upcoming elective conference – and the ANC is set to foot the bill.
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Pallo Jordan is considering a lengthy retreat from public life following the furore triggered by the revelation that he possesses neither a doctorate nor a university degree.
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Legal teams representing the Democratic Alliance (DA), President Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have agreed on an arbitrator to review the full set of the so-called spy tapes records, DA leader Helen Zille has said.
“An agreement was reached today to appoint retired Supreme Court of Appeal [SCA] Judge Noel Hurt to act as an arbitrator,” she said yesterday.
“This appointment will now become an order of the SCA at a date to be determined by the court. Once the SCA has finalised this order, all spy tapes records will be released to the arbitrator.”
On August 15, a full bench of the SCA gave Zuma and the DA a chance to resolve their differences with regard to documents in the NPA’s possession involving the tapes.
At the time, the two sides agreed in principle to a third party, a senior legal mind, to be asked to judge what information formed part of the confidential representations of Zuma to the NPA.
The legal counsels had until 4pm yesterday to have an agreement delivered to the SCA.
An SCA court official confirmed yesterday that papers were sent to the court by the deadline.
In April 2009, then acting NPA head Mokotedi Mpshe withdrew fraud and corruption charges against Zuma.
In March last year, the SCA ordered the NPA to lodge a record of the documents on which the NPA based their decision, with the registrar of the high court.
The NPA refused to do so on the basis that it contained confidential representations by Zuma.
The High Court in Pretoria then ordered the NPA to adhere to the original order by the SCA for a reduced record of the documents that the DA was looking for. They included the so-called spy tapes.
Zuma appealed against this decision.
Zille said yesterday that only records determined by the arbitrator to be part of Zuma’s confidential submissions to the NPA, and therefore privileged, would not be released to the DA.
“The decision of the arbitrator will be final and binding on all parties,” she said.
“The DA’s legal team will then study the records on receipt to determine whether a high court review of the NPA’s decision is appropriate.”
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When ANC parliamentarian Johnny de Lange and his National Party counterpart Manie Schoeman famously exchanged blows in Parliament about 15 years ago, the Speaker, Frene Ginwala, was in her office and had delegated the running of the session to another presiding officer.
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A 13 year-old-boy was killed on when a part of a soccer goalpost fell on him at a school in Thabong, in the Free State, paramedics said on Saturday.
ER24’s Russel Meiring said paramedics arrived on scene and found a group of children standing around the lifeless body of the young boy.
“Paramedics assessed the patient but found he had already succumbed to his severe injuries,” Meiring said.
According to Meiring, witnesses later said that the boys had apparently been swinging on the pole (crossbar) when it collapsed and struck the boy on the head.
Authorities were investigating the incident.
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Johannesburg – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has reportedly sent President Jacob Zuma a scathing letter asking why he should not pay back some of the R246m spent on his Nkandla home.
According to the Sunday Times, Madonsela sent the letter to Zuma on Thursday. In it she also accuses him of failing to tell parliament when he plans to pay back the money.
Madonsela also claims that Zuma has not yet responded to her report – this despite the president’s office saying he has.
In her report, Madonsela states that Zuma has to repay the cost of items not related to security. This includes a family visitors’ centre, a swimming pool, a cattle kraal and a chicken run.
Madonsela also lashed out at Zuma, accusing him of being guilty of an attack on the constitution and the rule of law by granting Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko the power to review her report, reports the Sunday Times.
Three investigations
There were however, three different investigations into the upgrades, done by the joint standing committee on intelligence, the public protector and the Special Investigative Unit (SIU).
Public spending on the security upgrades has turned into one of the major controversies of the Zuma presidency, as costs escalated to R246m – especially when it emerged the project included a pool (dubbed a “firepool” by the government), an amphitheatre, a cattle kraal and a chicken run, among others.
In her report earlier this year, Madonsela found that Zuma and his family had unduly benefited from the upgrades and recommended that he repay some of the money.
Zuma declined to respond to Madonsela’s report in full within the required fortnight and said instead he would wait for the SIU’s findings.
The presidency and the African National Congress’s chief whip Stone Sizani disagreed with Madonsela’s statement, saying Zuma had responded.
The National Assembly on Tuesday resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to consider Zuma’s response.
But parliament’s question time was suspended, and then adjourned on Thursday when the Economic Freedom Fighters disrupted parliament.
This came after Zuma flatly refused to answer questions about the upgrades put to him by EFF leader Julius Malema.
News24
Johannesburg – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has reportedly sent President Jacob Zuma a scathing letter asking why he should not pay back some of the R246m spent on his Nkandla home.
According to the Sunday Times, Madonsela sent the letter to Zuma on Thursday. In it she also accuses him of failing to tell parliament when he plans to pay back the money.
Madonsela also claims that Zuma has not yet responded to her report – this despite the president’s office saying he has.
In her report, Madonsela states that Zuma has to repay the cost of items not related to security. This includes a family visitors’ centre, a swimming pool, a cattle kraal and a chicken run.
Madonsela also lashed out at Zuma, accusing him of being guilty of an attack on the constitution and the rule of law by granting Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko the power to review her report, reports the Sunday Times.
Three investigations
There were however, three different investigations into the upgrades, done by the joint standing committee on intelligence, the public protector and the Special Investigative Unit (SIU).
Public spending on the security upgrades has turned into one of the major controversies of the Zuma presidency, as costs escalated to R246m – especially when it emerged the project included a pool (dubbed a “firepool” by the government), an amphitheatre, a cattle kraal and a chicken run, among others.
In her report earlier this year, Madonsela found that Zuma and his family had unduly benefited from the upgrades and recommended that he repay some of the money.
Zuma declined to respond to Madonsela’s report in full within the required fortnight and said instead he would wait for the SIU’s findings.
The presidency and the African National Congress’s chief whip Stone Sizani disagreed with Madonsela’s statement, saying Zuma had responded.
The National Assembly on Tuesday resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to consider Zuma’s response.
But parliament’s question time was suspended, and then adjourned on Thursday when the Economic Freedom Fighters disrupted parliament.
This came after Zuma flatly refused to answer questions about the upgrades put to him by EFF leader Julius Malema.
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Libya has been troubled by political upheaval and has had to pull out of hosting the competition for the second time in three years
Libya have withdrawn from hosting the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017, citing the unstable security situation in the country.
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