May, 30 2017.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.

Making headlines:
Parliament to hold briefing on SABC inquiry report
Zuma due back in Parliament on Wednesday
And, Nzimande says comrades are threatening them

 

Parliament’s legal services is today expected to brief the media about the recommendations of the ad hoc committee which investigated the SABC board.

In March, Parliament formally adopted the report of the ad hoc committee that looked into the SABC board’s fitness to hold office.

Its recommendations included that Communications Minister Faith Muthambi be referred to Parliament's ethics committee, to investigate her role in amending the SABC board's memorandum of incorporation, as well as in the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng to then-chief operating officer in July 2014.

It recommended to President Jacob Zuma that he consider whether Muthambi should continue leading the department.

 

After facing a call for his removal over the weekend, President Jacob Zuma will no doubt hear about it from the opposition on Wednesday.

Zuma will present the presidency's budget to Parliament at the start of a debate for which approximately six hours have been scheduled.

Speaker Baleka Mbete will today present Parliament's budget to both the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces.

 

The South African Communist Party will not close ranks around partners in the alliance movement when things are going wrong, the party’s general secretary Blade Nzimande said yesterday.

Nzimande was addressing workers at the Congress of South African Trade Unions' central committee meeting in Irene.

He said a “parasitic-patronage faction” was getting active support from the highest echelons of both the ANC and the state.

He defended his party’s criticism of the Gupta family, which had been accused of acting like a parallel state. He said the SACP had spoken out when there were threats to “capture” parts of the movement in the past.

Also making headlines:
Zuma tells land claimants not to take the money
And, Parliament struggles to pay its staff

 

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today