Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Mmusi Maimane tunes Jacob Zuma hard at SONA2015 debate
“Please understand, Honourable President, when I use the term ‘honourable’, I do it out of respect for the traditions and conventions of this august House. But please do not take it literally. For you, Honourable President, are not an honourable man. You are a broken man, presiding over a broken society,” says Maimane.
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Police push DA supporters away from Adderley Street prior to the State of the Nation Address.
Police push DA supporters away from Adderley Street prior to the State of the Nation Address. Photo by Michael Walker
Zuma says he 'did not take a penny' of taxpayers' R250m for Nkandla
Zuma says he 'did not take a penny' of taxpayers' R250m for Nkandla - so where did it all come from president thief?
I Am South African This is what the ANC did when they arrested Marius Redelinghuys, the DA spokesperson. The reason for his arrest enquiring to the SAPS why the DA supporters were being moved. Yup that's it. See what law they cook up for this. Democracy has failed. Thank you DA for standing in front of your people and not behind your security forces like the ANC coward!
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
And we surprised why??
Johannesburg - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi on Sunday defended government's advertising spending after criticism from opposition party the DA.
“The department of communications' in-house media buying team directs strategic government media buying using Telmar Media's suite of world-wide leading media advertising software and services used for reach, frequency and optimisation,” she said in a statement.
“Government uses mass communication to fulfil its mandate to communicate to the largest possible spread of South Africans.”
Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis earlier this week said Muthambi must explain how more than R10 million was spent on advertising in The New Age newspaper in the last financial year.
He questioned how government could spend R10.2m on The New Age with a readership of 153 000, while spending a similiar amount of R10.4m, on the Sowetan which had a much bigger readership of 1.6m.
“A comparison with the biggest newspapers shows just how skewed government adspend is towards the Gupta-owned newspaper, despite its low readership,” Davis said in a statement.
“A comparison with publications of a similar-sized readership to The New Age underscores just how much of an 'outlier' the newspaper is in terms of government spend.”
He referred to The Herald, The Mercury and Pretoria News, which had a similar number of readers to The New Age.
However, Muthambi on Sunday said a national newspaper like The New Age could not be compared to metropolitan newspapers.
“If we followed honourable Davis MP's argument, government would need to advertise in a greater number of metropolitan newspapers, in all provinces to match the footprint of The New Age, at a greater cost than that of advertising in The New Age,” she said.
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