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The parliamentary impeachment committee. (Photo: Phando Jikelo/Parliament) The parliamentary impeachment committee will be informed on Thursday about pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent court application to stop the committee’s operations. The impeachment committee, which must decide whether Ramaphosa should be placed in a state of impeachment, will receive an information session from the parliament’s legal services about Ramaphosa’s urgent application. It is expected that a decision will also be made on Friday about who qualifies to serve as members of the committee. The committee had earlier requested a legal opinion to obtain clarity on the inclusion of John Hlophe. Hlophe, a former…
TV personality, Nandipha “Queen Nandi” Mlombi, who has recently been criticized on social media pages for insulting the leadership of this church with horrible insults, has turned her back on the ears of the Weseli brothers. It has been days since Nandi went up and down to the President of the church in Southern Africa, Presiding Bishop Pumla Nzimande.Nandi (36), famous for the shows that were shown on Mzansi Magic The Pastor’s Wives and wood Nandi & The Rev, he is threatening the leadership of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) by saying that he is not going anywhere…
THE ORGANIZERS of the Ugu Jazz Festival, say that everything is ready and they are looking forward to welcoming the different guests who will come to the event.They said this at a press conference on Monday night, in Scottburgh.This event, which will be held from June 25 to 27, will be held at the stadium Ugu Sports & Leisure Centre, ePort Shepstone.Siya Msomi of the Coolsounds Trading company, which is organizing the event, said that she would encourage people to continue buying tickets as they are still available and she does not want to see people regretting it.He said that…
Willie Aucamp. (Photo: Willie Aucamp/Facebook) AgriSA welcomed the proposed appointment of Willie Aucamp as the new Minister of Agriculture. The organization says agriculture remains a strategic sector for South Africa, as it makes an important contribution to food security, job creation, export income, rural development and growth. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with the department and working constructively with Minister Aucamp to deal with the most important challenges and opportunities in the agricultural industry,” says Willem de Chavonnes Vrugt, AgriSA’s president. Also read: Hill-Lewis removes Steenhuisen as Minister of Agriculture Willie Aucamp. (Photo: Willie Aucamp/Facebook) De Chavonnes Vrugt…
FOR MANY people, the name of Mrs. Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi would not easily come to mind until this MK Party Whip was arrested on suspicion of defrauding members of her party working in Parliament in Cape Town this week.Mrs Mokoena-Zondi appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court where she will be charged with defrauding MKP employees of more than R200 000.However, the big question that many people may be wondering is who is this politician who has gotten into such trouble?Seeng Mmabatho Nthabiseng Mokoena-Zondi (46) has become a MKP Member of Parliament, taking over from Mr. Brian Molefe in February this…
John Steenhuisen (Photo: John Steenhuisen/Facebook) The FF Plus believes that John Steenhuisen’s removal as Minister of Agriculture did not come as a surprise. As far as the party is concerned, the situation surrounding foot and mouth has obviously become untenable. “The big question now is to what extent it will improve,” said Dr. Wynand Boshoff, FF Plus MP and the party’s chief spokesperson for agriculture, said on Wednesday about the news that Steenhuisen will be replaced by Willie Aucamp as minister of agriculture. The FF Plus appears to be optimistic about the new appointment. “Aucamp has a stronger background in…
There has been an uproar over the high number of young people who are not ashamed of the Youth Day celebrations in the country yesterday, which were celebrated by different political parties. On this day, which commemorates the event of June 16, 1976, when the youth rose up and fought against the teaching of the Afrikaans language in local schools, the youth were urged not to be complacent but to rise up and vote.At the national celebration held at Nasrec in Johannesburg, the chairman of the South African National Youth Development Agency, Dr. Sunshine Myende, told the president, Cyril Ramaphosa,…
Argieffoto (Foto: South African Tourism / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons) The Ekurhuleni Metro Council inflated its application for power tariffs for 2024/2025 by at least R13 billion by manipulating supporting information used in the application, say a group of industrialists. According to this group, the energy regulator, Nersa, apparently just let it slip through, without checking the figures. Even though this is Ekurhuleni’s third attempt to try to establish a legal rate for a period that has long passed, the application currently submitted to Nersa for a decision is so full of errors that Nersa will have to reject it…
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has been finalised and signed electronically by both sides.He added that the agreement has already gone into effect.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The text of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was finalised with the signatures of the presidents,” Baghaei told the news agency IRNA. “Now it is time to test the implementation of the agreement.”Wednesday’s statement appears to confirm that the US and Iran have agreed to suspend military operations, paving the way for further negotiations.Given that both sides…
LEAVE many people speechless about the incidents of actor Sdumo Mtshali, who is in the news these days for the incidents he did in the new Netflix show called The Polygamistwhere he plays the role of Jonas Gomora.This play, based on Sue Nyathi’s book The Polygamist 2012, made by The Stained Glass Production company, tells the story of a businessman who has a moral problem, who is unfaithful to his wife – he kills her.After watching this show with 22 episodes that came out on June 12, people expressed their different opinions about it, some commented, they commented before they…