Government spending on traditional leaders sparks controversy
Controversial R55 million spending: government’s support for traditional leaders sparks public debate and election speculation.
Controversial R55 million spending: government’s support for traditional leaders sparks public debate and election speculation.
South Africa is well and truly a welfare nation in which at least 47% of the population rely on social grants of one kind or another.
Last week US secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned that expropriation without compensation (EWC) would be ‘disastrous’ for South Africa and its people.
Jacob Zuma’s resignation speech was a classic seesaw event, very calculated from his end with no definitive ‘will he, won’t he’ resign until the end.
Most of the land now vested in the Ingonyama Trust could well be identified as ‘redistribution’ land under the Land Bill and targeted for expropriation by the state.
President Zuma was booed on Thursday evening in Pretoria when he was leaving the council chambers where the National House of Traditional Leaders held a debate.
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks looks at the role of traditional leaders in South Africa, whom have constantly pushed back against subjection to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Anthea Jeffrey explains how Zuma is wooing that anachronism of a democracy, traditional leaders, to shore up votes for the political tests that lie ahead.
The controversial Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill was sent back because it did not pass constitutional muster, President Jacob Zuma’s office said on Monday.