{"id":968298,"date":"2024-07-02T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968298"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:31:13","slug":"national-assembly-shelves-motions-for-political-consultations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/national-assembly-shelves-motions-for-political-consultations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly shelves motions for political consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly has shelved various motions that would see members elected to serve in various bodies.<\/p>\n<p>These include motions for members who would serve on the Judicial Service Commission, the SADC Parliamentary Forum and the election of three house chairpersons.<\/p>\n<p>The was the first sitting of the National Assembly since the swearing in of members and the business of the day was the filling of positions in internal and external Parliamentary structures. However, it was not to be, as three motions were shelved for political consultations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for this withdrawal Madam Speaker is to allow for further consultation on the matters that need to be cleared out on the three motions above,\u201d says ANC Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli.<\/p>\n<p>But the MK Party was not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are not given an option to know on what basis are we deferring issues,\u201d says MK Party Chief Whip Sihle Ngubane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the withdrawal in reading the motion, the Chief Whip did indicate the request that he is withdrawing this motion in his name in order to allow for consultations amongst parties,\u201d says National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza.<\/p>\n<p>In internal Parliamentary papers, the proposed names of the three house chairpersons were Cedric Frolick, Supra Mahumapelo and Zandile Majozi.<\/p>\n<p>The names for nominees to the Judicial Service Commission includes mostly new members, except the DA\u2019s Adv Glynnis Breytenbach and the EFF leader Julius Malema. Other notable names include MK Party Parliamentary leader Dr John Hlophe.<\/p>\n<p>The names that have been confirmed by the National Assembly to serve on the Pan-African Parliament include the ANC\u2019s Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli, the EFF\u2019s Vuyani Pambo, the MK\u2019s Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla and the DA\u2019s Mergan Chetty.<\/p>\n<p>Members who will serve on the Magistrates Commission include the ANC\u2019s Faith Muthambi, the DA\u2019s AC Ross, the MK\u2019s Sibonelo Nomvalo and the EFF\u2019s Omphile Maotwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes The National Assembly has shelved various motions that would see members elected to serve in various bodies. These include motions for members who would serve on the Judicial Service Commission, the SADC Parliamentary Forum and the election of three house chairpersons. The was the first sitting of the National Assembly since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2924,617,1256,974,3157],"class_list":["post-968298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-duduzile-zuma-sambudla","tag-eff","tag-julius-malema","tag-mk-party","tag-sihle-ngubane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}