State of nation address faces interdict threat if Zuma does not go
Opposition parties have threatened to interdict the state of the nation address if parliament's presiding officers, Baleka Mbete and Thandi Modise, do not accede to their demand for a postponement by tomorrow.
As ANC officials make a last-ditch attempt today to persuade President Jacob Zuma to leave office, opposition leaders are cranking up the pressure to prevent him from delivering the speech at the opening of parliament on Thursday.
They are demanding that the speech be postponed until parliament can hold impeachment proceedings, or that a new president present the address.
In a letter seen by the Sunday Times, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa called it "objectionable" that Mbete and Modise had decided the address should go ahead as scheduled...
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