
Busi Chimombe
Senior Reporter at South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
SABC News Politics Journalist
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2 weeks ago |
sabcnews.com | Busi Chimombe
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) leader Jacob Zuma is scheduled to deliver the Solomon Mahlangu lecture today as the country observes Freedom Day. Zuma is expected to begin the commemoration of the young anti-apartheid activist at the Khosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria where Mahlangu was held. Zuma will also visit the cemetery in Mamelodi where Mahlangu was buried after being hanged in 1979.
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1 month ago |
sabcnews.com | Busi Chimombe
The African National Congress (ANC) has said in a statement that it held a cordial meeting with the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) recently as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen multiparty consensus and deepen democratic accountability in the Government of National Unity (GNU).
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1 month ago |
sabcnews.com | Busi Chimombe
Leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Freedom Front Plus are scheduled to meet today to discuss the budget impasse which is threatening the government of national unity. On Saturday, leaders of the ANC and the Democratic Alliance (DA) met in Sandton, Johannesburg. The bone of contention is the ANC-proposed increase in Value-Added Tax, which is included in the 2025 budget that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered in Parliament last month.
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1 month ago |
sabcnews.com | Busi Chimombe
The EFF is adamant that it will not support the 2025 budget despite meeting with a high-level delegation that ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula led in Sandton, Johannesburg yesterday. In a statement, the EFF says the engagement must not be mistaken for participation in seeking alternatives to the VAT increases. The EFF says the budget in its current form punishes the poor. EFF Statement On Meeting With African National Congress.
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1 month ago |
sabcnews.com | Busi Chimombe
The African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have once again failed to reach an agreement on the budget speech tabled by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. Last night, DA and ANC negotiators met for a final round of negotiations ahead of the parliamentary sitting this week. The DA would accept the VAT increase of 0,5% and in return wanted the NHI, Bela and Expropriation Acts repealed. However, the ANC refused.
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#SABCNews MKP Leader Jacob Zuma has reminded supporters in Mamelodi why the party was formed. This is due to the ANC no longer being the party its was originally and the unfair treatment he received, including a jail term for refusing to appear at the Zondo Commission

#SABCNews MKP Leader President Jacob Zuma gets down in Mamelodi, Pretoria. His Freedom Day program included a visit to the Khosi Mampuru Facility where the late anti-apartheid activist Solomon Mahlangu was held and to the cemetery where he was buried following his being hanged. https://t.co/lxTUEaLGTk

#SABCNews Entertainment for the scores of MKP supporters who have gathered in Mamelodi outside Pretoria for Former President Jacob Zuma’s Solomon Mahlangu Lecture on Freedom Day https://t.co/MD3sy2pJr2