17 Feb 2015
The debate continues tomorrow (Wednesday) at 14:00.
17 Feb 2015
And to much shouting, Didiza adjourns the house.
17 Feb 2015
Patel invited DA MP to visit Western Cape townships which are another country to Camps Bay.
17 Feb 2015
Patel: people of the Western Cape deserve better.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says the bulk of job creation in the Western Cape continue to benefit whites.
17 Feb 2015
Patel speaks of the DA's record in power in the Western Cape. Zille inherited from the ANC govt an unemployment rate in the province of 19.9% and it's now, under the DA, at 24%, he notes.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says Public Enterprises Min Lynne Brown will give more details on easing energy crisis tomorrow.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says he'll happily take a question on Medupi power plant once he's done.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says working with investors, SA creates jobs.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says they create jobs, despite what Maimane says.
17 Feb 2015
Patel mentions South Africans by name who've benefitted from developments such as free wifi on busses.
17 Feb 2015
Patel speaks of electricity connections for the poor.
17 Feb 2015
MP rises on a point of order "pains me to see so many MP's asleep during deliberations", he says.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says Zuma heard in Davos that minerals should be used to build manufacturing base.
17 Feb 2015
Patel: We need to do more on growth and jobs.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says SA remains largest direct investment destination in Africa, according to Ernst and Young.
17 Feb 2015
Patel: Every one billion in IDC investment, attracts two billion in investment form other quarters.
17 Feb 2015
Patel says we have huge challenges, but cause for optimism - SA attracts large investments.
17 Feb 2015
But Steenhuisen threw this one in before he left: The last time the SACP had a real red among them was a Johnnie Walker Red.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen finished. Ebrahim Patel is up. He's the last speaker.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen: You moaned about Khayelitsha, interesting fact, every single ward in Khayelitsha has an ANC councillor.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen has reserved a few choice insults for certain people such as Gordhan, Ebrahim Patel, Magashule.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen says Zuma and Mbete needs a lecture in what democracy is.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen chuckles as he recalls how the ANCYL was driven into liquidation.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen is absolutely ripping into Zuma and his party.
17 Feb 2015
Nkandla is the most important national symbol - of greed, corruption... - Steenhuisen
17 Feb 2015
Steenhusien says Zuma lost the right to complain about parliament when he defied the rules.
17 Feb 2015
Steenhuisen also reminds Zuma and the ANC that it was them who "got rid of Mbeki".
17 Feb 2015
Zuma does not look happy as Steenhuisen asks when he's going to be held accountable.
Thank goodness Premier Magashule only comes once a year... says Steenhuisen.
17 Feb 2015
DA's chief whip John Steenhuisen is next. He says Zuma is number 1... the number one rulebreaker.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule: The ANC has indeed electrified the country.
He also called Zuma visionary.
And his time is up.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says this is why the ANC says "tomorrow will be better than today".
17 Feb 2015
More EFF members are up, says Magashule shouldn't "claim easy victories and tell lies".
17 Feb 2015
Malema says Magashule behaviour is unparlimentary. Accuses chair of shielding him.
17 Feb 2015
EFF MP wants to ask Magashule a question. This EFF MP was former spokesperson to the premier. Magashule says he was fired.
Now they're getting a little raucous.
Thoko Didiza, who is chairing, is trying hard to maintain order.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says Eastern Cape built one new school every week, last year.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says some honourable members are still longing for apartheid, he says it will never happen, SA has changed. Some still wish to be called 'baas' and 'madam', he says.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says Mandela who was icon of the world wasn't wanted by the opposition, same with Mbeki and Zuma.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule told not to say that about MPs, but he says it is true, he can call them by names - more shouts from MPs.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says some opposition MP's killed and maimed our brothers and sisters in exile.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule asked if he'll take a question about "his website" but he skips over this. About R40m was spent on a Wordpress website that should have cost a few hundred rand.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule told to continue - he says there is no need to worry about cadre deployment.Tells of when an ANC-affiliated worker in the Western Cape was fired by the DA when they took over the province.
17 Feb 2015
Malema now saying repeatedly "I've never interacted with the Guptas". Chair desperately trying to maintain order. Not really working.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule: All of them have interacted with the Gupta's including the DA.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says they have all interacted with Guptas, they are business people in SA.
Malema corrects him - I've never interacted with the Guptas. Zuma can confirm that.
17 Feb 2015
Malema laughs as Magashule reminds him of his statement made a few years ago that he [Malema] would kill for Zuma.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule makes a remark about Malema and there's furious shouting from, presumably, an EFF MP.
17 Feb 2015
Magashule says there is No1 in SA, and that is Zuma not Zille.
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