In an unusual move, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi interrupted President Jacob Zuma during his response to the State Of The Nation debate.
Jacob Zuma’s administration has implemented some of the promises he made in last year’s State of the Nation address, but struggled to fulfil others.
Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane says Cabinet has called for the protracted debate on labour broking at Nedlac to be finalised soon.
Great-sounding policies but no implementation and developing of societies most vulnerable.
The state, economists say, can afford to double its debt levels and lift borrowing to about R1-trillion to pay its ambitious infrastructure plans.
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/ 17 February 2012
Trade union Solidarity has hit out at the state in a new report, pleading the case for mine ownership to be left in private hands.
ANC bigwigs, including Gwede Mantashe, almost missed the State of the Nation address after an official disappeared with their access tags.
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/ 17 February 2012
No spin can obscure what we saw of the president’s real intentions for the judiciary in general and the Constitutional Court in particular.
President Jacob Zuma has slammed FF+ leader Pieter Mulder for his controversial views on land reforms, telling him he needed a lesson in history.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says progress is being made in education despite problems in staffing, fees and enrolment.
FF+ leader Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest on land ownership a poke when he said "bantu-speakers" had no historical claim to 40% of the country.
Responding to the State of the Nation, the DA says an inability to reach reconciliation through economic redress is the cause of national discontent.
Analysts say the infrastructure drive unveiled by President Zuma must be combined with other programmes if it is to succeed in growing SA’s economy.
Six immigrants give their views on life in their adopted country.
President Zuma has delivered one of his better State of the Nation speeches since taking office in 2009. Our politics team breaks it down for us.
The DA has detailed 10 broken promises since the President’s State of the Nation speech last year, and thinks this year will be "more of the same".
We talk to editor-in-chief Nic Dawes about what we can expect from Zuma at this year’s State of the Nation address.
South Africa’s rampant unemployment and sluggish economy loom over President Jacob Zuma as he prepares to deliver his State of the Nation address.
MPs will be served their fancy State of the Nation dinner in a parking lot, as the normal venue for the banquet is being used by the Mining Indaba.
The president is likely to focus on the need for South Africa to move decisively on programmes and policies that have served the country well so far.
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/ 3 February 2012
To quote Tony Blair, I have three main priorities — education, education, education …
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/ 3 February 2012
Zuma looking to China for infrastructure development.
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/ 2 February 2012
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I’ve always secretly suspected that Bheki Cele’s motivation for militarising the police was an excuse for him to get another hat.
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/ 23 February 2011
Parliament is a bit like Willem Odendaal’s <i>voorkamer</i> on the day the post is expected to arrive in Derdepoort.
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/ 18 February 2011
With its massive subsidies to industry, customs union pleas of poverty ring false.
The glaring lack of mention of ‘climate’ or ‘change’ in Zuma’s speech has left many in the international community in a state of mild panic.
A little fire and brimstone from the opposition benches, but president’s own MPs had only good things to say about his speech.
In his reply to the debate on the State of the Nation address on Thursday, President Jacob Zuma took pride in the government’s interventions.
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/ 15 February 2011
<b>Chris Roper</b> finds the mocking of Jacob Zuma’s English during his State of the Nation speech classist and rude.
Jobs are clearly Zuma’s priority, and the initiatives announced in the speech aim to address the profound unemployment crisis.
President Jacob Zuma was expected to adopt a characteristically conciliatory approach in his annual State of the Nation address.