EFF, DA, UDM don’t want Zuma to deliver the state of the nation address
The EFF and the DA are hoping that President Jacob Zuma does not deliver next week’s state of the nation address (Sona). DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Wednesday that he had written to the Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete requesting that this year’s speech‚ scheduled for Thursday February 8, be postponed until Zuma has been removed from office‚ and for Parliament to have been afforded an opportunity to elect a new President. The EFF has also written to Mbete‚ with the threat to disrupt the speech if it goes ahead‚ according to an overnight report in City Press. The party is quoted as saying: "We write to the Speaker to request that she start processes of rescheduling the Parliament programme if Mr Jacob Zuma is still President. Failure to do so will leave us with no option‚ but to take up the issue during Sona." According to Maimane’s letter to Mbete: "It is no secret that there is a battle within the ANC and the national executive — with each side holding starkly diff...
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