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.
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/ 11 February 2011
It seemed pretty clear that jobs would be the principal theme of the State of the Nation Address.
It has been a mixed bag of promises kept and broken since Jacob Zuma’s last State of the Nation address.
President Jacob Zuma was expected to adopt a characteristically conciliatory approach in his annual State of the Nation address.
Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address contains mixed messages, Pieter Mulder said, while Gwede Mantashe was "comfortable" with it.
The local government elections will take place before the end of May, and preparations are well underway, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
Jacob Zuma faced pressure on Thursday to map out concrete steps to fight massive unemployment with nearly one in four people jobless in South Africa.
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/ 10 February 2011
The under-fire National Youth Development Agency claimed on Thursday that it has "created or sustained" over 15 000 jobs in the past year.
President Jacob Zuma considers the State of the Nation address to be one of his "most important" speeches, he said ahead of the opening of Parliament.
As President Jacob Zuma readies for his third State of the Nation address, there is no shortage of advice as to what he should say.
Jacob Zuma will use a major policy speech in his State of the Nation address on Thursday to lay out his plans to create jobs in South Africa.
President Jacob Zuma will on Thursday address SA after asking for input from users of Twitter and Facebook, who said they want jobs and no corruption.
Take decisive action on challenges facing SA — that is the DA’s message to Jacob Zuma ahead of the State of the Nation address later this week.
In a scathing response to government’s new growth path (NGP), Cosatu this week accused Jacob Zuma of sidelining the ANC’s Polokwane resolutions.
Potholes, free education and ANCYL leader Julius Malema should be included in the president’s State of the Nation address, say Twitter users.
For a whole two weeks the African National Congress came face to face with the enemy within — the contradictions within the glorious movement.
The ANC’s enthusiasm for Zuma has dropped to such depths that some are already saying he should go, and go now.
Major opposition parties staged a walkout from Parliament on Tuesday, with accusations of swearing being made by the ANC.
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/ 16 February 2010
President Jacob Zuma repeated firmly on Tuesday that nationalisation is not government policy.
Opposition parties on Monday voiced strong criticism of the ANC and President Jacob Zuma following Zuma’s State of the Nation speech last week.