WATCH DA Say What Everyone’s Thinking About Zuma’s Pay Raise
By SAPeople Staff Writer 11-03-16 19:25

Parliament – or at least the African National Congress side of the house – on Thursday approved a 4.5 percent raise for President Jacob Zuma. Zuma now earns R2,874,851 a year, which means he gets R7‚876 a day or R239‚568 a month. The Democratic Alliance’s Chief Whip, John Steenhuisen, was visibly angry about Zuma getting a raise after firing finance […]

Democratic Alliance’s Young Turk Someone to Watch VIDEO
By SAPeople Staff Writer 18-02-16 20:22

The SONA2016 debate might be over, and while there were some pretty low points, there were also some highs worth remembering. One of them was the speech of the Democratic Alliance’s Zakhele Mbhele. Only 31 years old, and the shadow minister of police, he talks the talk a lot better than parliamentarians twice his age. And […]

WATCH DA Chief Whip Gets Kicked out of Parliament Over “Rubbish”
By SAPeople Staff Writer 19-02-16 12:33

CAPE TOWN – Parliament descended into minor chaos Wednesday afternoon after the chief whip of the Democratic Alliance John Steenhuisen told the presiding officer that he could not tell COPE leader Mosiuoa Lekota to withdraw the word “faction” when referring to the ANC. Steenhuisen said that by telling the Congress of People’s leader Lekota that labeling […]

DA ‘Teletubby’ Remarks Angers EFF in Parliament
By SAPeople Staff Writer 02-11-15 22:55

CAPE TOWN – Four minutes is probably nothing in parliamentary debates, but last week saw a memorable 240-second interlude during the university fees debate when a member of the Democratic Alliance called a member of the Economic Freedom Front a Teletubby. DA chief whip John Steenhuisen stood up on a point of order just after DA leader […]

President: 2015, Year of the Freedom Charter
By SAPeople Contributor 13-01-15 13:37

President Jacob Zuma says government has and will continue to go back to basics and use the prescripts of the Freedom Charter to improve the lives of all South Africans. Delivering the January 8 statement at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday during the ruling African National Congress’s 103rd anniversary celebrations, the President said to achieve […]

Ginwala helped shape South Africa’s history
By SAPeople Contributor 29-07-14 15:23

Frene Ginwala helped build and grow the African National Congress (ANC) in exile and in the first 10 years of the democratic Parliament, when she was the speaker. The 82-year-old was in exile for 31 years, and returned to South Africa in 1990.   Her crucial role and wise leadership have been well-documented: “Dr Frene […]

Don’t Touch Me On My Studio Visagie vs Malema
By SAPeople 16-04-10 16:56

Julius Malema had another tantrum last week in Limpopo at a youth league conference, hot on the heels of his recent outburst against BBC reporter Jonah Fisher. And the AWB guys haven’t been behaving themselves that well either. So some guys in South Africa have put together a video to show South Africans can and […]

Malema vs BBC Journo and more
By SAPeople 29-08-12 13:37

ANC Youth Leader Julius Malema ‘asks’ a BBC journalist to leave his press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NJ4WOKGMs Below: an interview with Max du Preez about Malema.  The book The World according to Julius Malema was written and compiled by Du Preez and Mandy Rossouw from the Mail & Guardian Below: Debora Patta vs Julius Malema – an […]

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