Lunchtime news: W.Cape Sopa disrupted
WESTERN Cape Premier Hellen Zille was forced to deliver her State of the Province Address in a press room surrounded by her MECs on Friday.
This follows disruptions by members of the Western Cape Legislature who raised several points of orders.
Speaker Sharna Fernandez suspended proceedings twice before finally adjourning the sitting for the day.
“These proceedings cannot proceed this way and I have to apologise to our guests,” she said.
Zille was requested to then table her speech.
ACADEMIC William Gumede says institutions like Parliament have failed South Africans.
He was speaking in Johannesburg at a press briefing on the state of South Africa.
“Parliament for example is not delivering quality services. We now are faced with a situation where democratic intuitions themselves are unable to deliver.”
THE Hawks have lost a second court case about a second high profile suspension.
The country’s elite crime fighting unit was told in the High Court in Pretoria that the suspension of Gauteng Hawks head, Shadrack Sibiya was unlawful and invalid.
Karabo Ngoepe reports….
SERIAL rapist Simone Sithole has been sentenced to an effective 78 years in prison.
He is convicted on 45 charges, including 21 of rape in Mamelodi and Nellmapius.
Sithole was granted leave to appeal.
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