POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Parties face each other again after Parliamentary scuffles
Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank will brief Parliament’s social development committee on grant payouts, writes Genevieve Quintal
President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address will be debated in Parliament this week, despite the majority of opposition parties having left the chamber before he delivered his speech. Zuma’s address was delayed by more than an hour last week as opposition parties hurled insults at him, calling him "rotten to the core" and a "constitutional delinquent" who had broken his oath of office. Parliamentary members of the EFF were violently removed from the National Assembly by Parliament’s protection services. The DA and members of the Congress of the People walked out. The DA and its leader, Mmusi Maimane, were hit by a barrage of insults from ANC MPs as they left the House. In his speech, Zuma outlined what he called "a new chapter in radical economic transformation", which included a range of policies from land to black economic empowerment and the setting aside of a portion of government procurement for black and small business. Political parties will now have to face one anothe...
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