SONA 2018 has been postponed

cenredash said:
The problem with this is ... why vote for Zuma, no matter the price for someone that is already not in charge of the ANC Presidency or NEC? Have to look beyond April 2019 when there is a new sheriff in town. New sheriff might be just like the old sheriff, but you need to look forward.
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Zuma has allowed his minions to fill up their pockets as far as they like. Banking on CR may be risky. What if he takes a hardline to corruption? You could end up very poor in relative terms. Rather take Zuma's deal, loot all you can carry between now and his last day in office and know you're set.
 
garp said:
Except that according to Mbete, as they were drafting a request to Zuma to postpone it, they somehow realised Zuma also wanted to postpone it, weird:

"Mbete says that as Parliament was preparing to write to President Jacob Zuma to request the postponement of his address, he was already doing the same." (http://ewn.co.za/2018/02/06/mbete-sona-2018-postponed-no-date-set).

So why would Zuma himself want to postpone? To give time for a purge?? /tinfoil hat
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See you posted this already - my bad.
 
Splinter said:
I saw their statement, and they said they had gone to him to ask if it could be postponed, and when they got there he was already writing a letter to parliament asking for SONA to be postponed...yeah right.

Just a face-saving excercise for the bugger. They still afford him too much respect.
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Yeah, its still affording him too much respect.

The fact that they're calling an NEC meeting to discuss is also a problem.

Cyril needs to arrive at the meeting and dictate that Jacob is gone by the end of the meeting or Jacob will see out the rest of his days on Robben Island chipping at stone blocks along with his Gupta cronies.. and become a public show for the rest of us.
 
Just saw Zuma on TV, leaving Tuynhuys. He showed his teeth and waved at the media.
 
Rumour has it that the SONA ceremony will go ahead as planned. There just won't be a speech.

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Or more accurately, the opening of parliament will proceed but without an address from the president.
 
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garp said:
Rumour has it that the SONA ceremony will go ahead as planned. There just won't be a speech.

Edit:
Or more accurately, the opening of parliament will proceed but without an address from the president.
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Makes a lot more sense!

So, we can still watch the pageantry...
 
garp said:
Rumour has it that the SONA ceremony will go ahead as planned. There just won't be a speech.

Edit:
Or more accurately, the opening of parliament will proceed but without an address from the president.
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Link? That doesn't make sense to me.
 
BBC viewpoint: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42963183

South Africa's parliament has taken the extraordinary step of postponing President Jacob Zuma's state of the nation address on Thursday, as pressure grows on him to resign.
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Analysis by Lebo Diseko, BBC News, Johannesburg

It is unprecedented for the state of the nation address to be postponed.

Making the announcement, Ms Mbete cited concerns over disruption. This was in reference to fears of possible disruption by the opposition if Mr Zuma were to give the address. And as the sitting president, he is supposed to.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of almost frenzied speculation about Mr Zuma's future.

And the one thing that has not been cancelled is Wednesday's meeting of the only African National Congress (ANC) body with the power to remove him.

If reports that the ANC is close to removing the president are true, him giving the address would have been even more awkward.

Either way this latest development has done nothing to dampen speculation in South Africa that Mr Zuma's time as president is almost up.
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Sinbad said:
Barry Bateman Retweeted
EWN Reporter
‏Verified account @ewnreporter
3m3 minutes ago

#SONA Speaker Baleka Mbete says it has become clear that it is unlikely that a joint sitting of the two houses would be uneventful if held this Thursday. LD



LOL

"uneventful"
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And I was hoping that they were going to use water cannons on the spectators again. Wanted to take some buckets with me. :cry:
 
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