As strain mounts for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step down, leaders of opposition events in Parliament, will probably depart no stone unturned with regards to queries in regards to the Phala Phala farm saga.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sixth ANC National Policy Conference. Photo: Abigail Javier/ Eyewitness News
President Cyril Ramaphosa is predicted to seem earlier than the National Assembly on Tuesday, to answer a sequence of questions from Members of Parliament (MPs). The Phala Phala farm saga is predicted to dominate the Q&A session.
Earlier this month, opposition events held a media briefing the place they known as for Ramaphosa to step down, to make manner for a full investigation into the housebreaking at his Limpopo farm.
Below is the record of questions that can be posed to the President.
Democratic Alliance (DA) chief John Steenhuisen can be focusing his query on gender-based violence in opposition to ladies and youngsters.
With reference to the dedication he made throughout his State of the Nation Address on 10 February 2022, that the Government could be intensifying the combat in opposition to gender-based violence and femicide by way of the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide, and in mild of the truth that the quantity and frequency of gender-based crimes dedicated within the Republic have elevated relatively than decreased since then, what are the related particulars of the steps he’ll take as well as to the implementation of the required plan to make sure that (a) ladies and ladies are shielded from gender-based violence and (b) perpetrators of gender-based crimes are prosecuted swiftly?
John Steenhuisen, Leader – Democratic Alliance
Illegal immigration will even take a centre stage.
West village in Krugersdorp was not too long ago rocked by violence as residents took to the streets in protest in opposition to excessive crime ranges and illegal miners.
Police arrested 80 illegal miners in Krugersdorp, after a bunch of eight ladies, had been gang raped.
In view of the rising problem of illegal migration, which poses an rising safety danger and the proposal to overview the immigration legal guidelines contemplating the African Union Agenda 2063 of socio-economic integration of the continent in bringing about an setting of legality, what are the engagements he has with different leaders on the continent, particularly within the Southern African Development Community area, to handle the challenges of illegal migration?
Mosa Chabane, Member of Parliament – African National Congress
In mild of the rising ranges of social ills and violence, such because the latest tragic dying of 21 youngsters within the Eastern Cape, the eight ladies who had been raped after a media shoot and the gang rape incident in Kagiso, how will the outcomes of the Presidential Social Sector Summit (a) propel efforts to forge a social compact that negate social ills and (b) promote shared values within the household unit and broader society?
Nonkosi Mvana, Member of Parliament – African National Congress
The safety cluster failed to cease the 2021 July unrest that rocked Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal final yr, following the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma. Parties have questions in regards to the matter.
Whether he intends to act on the issues raised in a warning instruction by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) (particulars furnished), warning that the scenario within the Republic of South Africa is step by step deteriorating into unrest due to criminality that’s going down throughout the borders and exacerbated by a perceived lack of motion from the safety forces to fight criminality; if not, why not; if that’s the case, (a) does such an act embrace his authorization of the deployment of the SANDF to help the SA Police Service to comprise additional unrest and (b) what are the additional related particulars?
Kenneth Meshoe, Leader – African Christian Democratic Party
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spokesperson, Sinawo Tambo, and the president of the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Vuyo Zungula, have accused the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) of delaying techniques within the Phala Phala farm housebreaking probe.
Whether, however the continuing investigations by the Hawks and the Acting Public Protector, he has thought of it prudent to take the nation into his confidence on the intense allegations surrounding his Phala Phala farm (particulars furnished), by accounting to the folks of South Africa and talking on the required challenge within the National Assembly, the place the elected representatives of the folks can interact him on the scandal that has divided the nation and brought about immeasurable hurt to the repute of the Republic;
Vuyo Zungula, chief – African Transformation Movement
Whether with the good thing about hindsight, he has discovered that he may have responded otherwise to the intense allegations surrounding him with regard to your complete saga round his Phala Phala farm?
Vuyo Zungula, chief – African Transformation Movement
Other questions to the President can be Eskom associated issues.
Given that the key constraint to scaling up renewables is that the grid will not be reconfigured for renewables and that reliability upkeep requires the switching off of the vegetation for just a few months at a time, how will (a) the doubled Bid Window 6 renewables, provide power to the grid that in its present configuration is designed for Eskom energy vegetation and (b) the reliability upkeep be carried out with out leading to greater levels of load shedding?
Mikateko Mahlaule, Member of Parliament – African National Congress
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