Home Julius Malema. Julius Malema. A brawl broke out in South Africa's parliament on Thursday as guards exchanged punches with opposition lawmakers who shouted down President Jacob Zuma as he tried to deliver his state of the nation address. Radical South African lawmaker Julius Malema delivered a blistering attack on President Jacob Zuma in his maiden address to parliament on Wednesday, accusing him of being "extremely scared of white people".
Tens of thousands of South Africans on Wednesday marked the 75th birthday of President Jacob Zuma with a protest against him, pushing for his resignation because of scandals and his dismissal of a widely respected finance minister. Several thousand people gathered in South Africa's capital on Wednesday to protest against President Jacob Zuma following a much-criticised cabinet reshuffle, days after the opposition called countrywide marches to demand his resignation.
New South African Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba got a sceptical welcome on financial markets on Friday, with fears growing that budget discipline will falter despite a risk that the country's credit rating will be downgraded to "junk" status. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma sacked finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle after days of speculation that has rocked the country's markets and currency, replacing him with home affairs head Malusi Gigaba. The leader of a South African opposition party said he planned to file for disciplinary or impeachment proceedings against President Jacob Zuma in a court application on Thursday.
South Africa's currency and bonds weakened again on Wednesday as expectations rise that President Jacob Zuma will sack finance minister Pravin Gordhan following the funeral of anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada later in the day. A session of South Africa's parliament convened for a keynote address by the president descended into chaos on Thursday as far-left lawmakers brawled with orderlies after interrupting the speech and the main opposition party walked out.
South African opposition lawmakers tried to stop President Jacob Zuma from addressing parliament today, repeatedly interrupting the proceedings to declare that he is unfit for office because of corruption allegations. Breaking News. Home Topics. Julius Malema News. Even posthumously, de Klerk sought to address this criticism in a video message in which he said he was sorry for his role in apartheid. His foundation released the video after announcing his death. And in my heart of hearts, I realised that apartheid was wrong.
I realized that we have arrived at a place which was morally unjustifiable. It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa's parliament on 2 February, , announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years.
The announcement electrified a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid. By then, de Klerk and Mandela had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in for their often-tense cooperation in moving South Africa away from institutionalized racism and toward democracy. Power would shift. A new constitution would be written.
Ways of life would be upended. The toll of the transition was high. As de Klerk said in his Nobel lecture in December , more than 3, died in political violence in South Africa that year alone.
As he reminded his Nobel audience, he and fellow laureate Mandela remained political opponents, with strong disagreements. After Mandela became president, de Klerk served as deputy president until , when his party withdrew from the Cabinet. Botha, had begun by meeting secretly with Mandela shortly before leaving office.
In the late s, as protests inside and outside the country continued, the ruling party had begun making some reforms, getting rid of some apartheid laws.
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