SONA 2015

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He was the highlight of the evening for me...his outfit and the that half alice band thing...if the IFP continued its hold on KZN and grew it membership, ANC dominance would not look so absolute...but that would have meant old boy would have had to hand over the touch to a new generation...think he is going for the RIP in office award..
 
Awaiting moronic media catch phrases

SignalGate
SonaGate

And 20yrs from now this era would have been known as ZumaGate
 
rakabos3 said:
Awaiting moronic media catch phrases

SignalGate
SonaGate

And 20yrs from now this era would have been known as ZumaGate
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In 20 years I want to see a Carte Blanche special...Mbete somewhere in the rural outback, clay hut...wearing an old Zuma tshirt...complaining how rough life is now for her... lamenting her fall from glory, how wrong she was following the now dead JZ...and how the ANC is only relevant in rural parts of the country.
 
http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/minister-journalists-in-sona-twar-1.1817828#.VN3gpvmUd8E

Johannesburg - A Twitter war broke out on Friday morning between the Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini, Crime Line head Yusuf Abramjee and several editors.

The twar began when Abramjee, who is also head of news and current affairs at Primedia Broadcasting, tweeted a story about the cellphone signal that was blocked during Thursday night’s chaotic State of the Nation Address (SONA) session.

This prevented the media from using social media during the proceedings.

Dlamini, using the Twitter handle @dlaminibatha, hit back and accused him of being the mastermind behind the journalist protest in the press gallery.

This was because the jammed signal rendered them unable to file their stories or use social media.

They chanted “Bring back the signal, bring back the signal,” and waved their cellphones at an electronic black box believed to be jamming the signal.

Dlamini tweeted: “@Abramjee yhooooo I can’t believe what I saw you doing last night (Thursday) I am so disappointed I literally saw you instigating journalists.”

He hit back at Dlamini and tweeted: “@dlaminibatha I make no apology for standing up for what’s right whether you like it or not. We will fight for media freedom!!!”

He then tagged the SA National Editors’ Forum and City Press editor Ferial Haffajee in a tweet that read: “When a cabinet minister defends an onslaught on the media, we are in serious trouble!”

Dlamini’s response was: “@Abramjee @SAEditorsForum @ferialhaffajee you are not in serious trouble you are in what you started.

“@Abramjee you are pushing us too much and you are hardening us day by day, we are at the edge right now, if you want to know us carry on.”
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"If you want to know us"... in other words, we lie in our public face, behind closed doors we are sociopaths
 
“@Abramjee you are pushing us too much and you are hardening us day by day, we are at the edge right now, if you want to know us carry on.”
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Did that ignorant btch really say that. OMFG can we revisit blood river please. Its getting close to that if this goes on
 
DA DEMANDS SPEAKER BE HELD TO ACCOUNT

Security forces had no right to forcibly remove all EFF MPs from Parliament on Thursday night, the DA said, and demanded that Speaker Baleka Mbete be held to account for the incident.

Democratic Alliance chief whip John Steenhuisen made the point at a media briefing on Friday that the majority of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs were not ordered out of the National Assembly by Mbete, yet were "kicked, beaten, pummelled and carted away like cattle".

Referring to Reneilwe Mashabela, he said: "Yesterday [Thursday], one of the ladies from the EFF was kicked against a table in the most brutal manner."

Steenhuisen claimed Mbete had called in armed police who were "trained to deal with thugs", instead of asking parliamentary protection officers to remove the EFF MPs she ordered to leave the Chamber.

He said this violated the constitutional separation of powers, as the police reported to the executive, and that she should be called before Parliament's powers and privileges committee.

"It is a slippery slope away from constitutional democracy."

Three EFF MPs, including party leader Julius Malema, were told to leave the House after they persisted in trying to question Zuma about misspending on his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, during his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday night.

Maimane said the DA was taking legal advice and would seek a court order explicitly barring presiding officers from calling the police into the National Assembly because legislation may not be clear enough in this regard.

He went on to accuse Mbete of being partisan and acting in bad faith.

"In this instance, the Speaker of the National Assembly is a member of the [African National Congress].

"The speaker of the National Assembly acted in the interests of the ANC. She allowed the executive to act in a manner that they sought to find ways to undermine the Constitution.

"She protected President Jacob Zuma."

The DA walked out in protest before Zuma resumed his speech, but Maimane stressed that this was in protest at police being called, and not in support of the EFF's actions.

"I think the actions of the EFF were wrong. If the ruling concludes that your point of order is not appropriate, in my view you should accept that ruling and you need to, if you are asked to leave the Chamber, you need to be able to do that yourself."


Source : Sapa /ef/ks/jk/cls
Date : 13 Feb 2015 13:27
 
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