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Letters to the Editor: What is the matter with us? We keep allowing killers to kill. We can of course blame the shooters but in reality it is us too. We condone it.

On Thursday, the National Assembly Programming Committee (NAPC) resolved to reschedule a sitting that will deliberate on the motion of no confidence against the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for March 22 2023.  Inititally scheduled for March 7 2023, the delay has been attributed to the unavailability of the Cape Town City Hall, where the Assembly usually holds its full physical sittings.

Parliament will not oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa’s challenge of the Section 89 panel report that found he may have an impeachment case to answer.

THE Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has assured the La- gos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu; resi- dents of the state and

The Lagos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association will monitor the trial of ASP Drambi Vandi, the policeman that shot and killed Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem in Lagos on Christmas Day.  The association will also press for monetary compensation for the family of the deceased by the relevant government agencies. This was disclosed in a press statement released by a Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN.

She voted with opposition for adoption of panel report that could have led to Ramaphosa impeachment

ANC elective years are, by the governing party’s own admission, disruptive – even outside party ranks. Amid chatter of slates, deals and cash for votes, few in government are prepared to stick out their heads and take firm decisions on South Africa’s governance and political economy.

National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has declined requests to reconsider her decision to not allow a secret ballot to be used as a voting procedure on the section 89 independent panel’s report on Phala Phala.

The ANC Women’s League in the Western Cape handed over a memorandum hours before the parliamentary sitting that is expected to vote on the Section 89 Phala Phala report.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was free from possible removal from office — and boosted en route to his second term as ANC president — on the back of ANC numbers in the House on Tuesday. With 214 votes against, 148 for and two abstentions, any parliamentary Phala Phala farm forex impeachment proceed...