Rural
development, food security a priority
- 3 June
Government is to put in place a comprehensive rural development strategy
linked to land and agragrian reform and food security. This is according
to President Jacob Zuma, who delivered his first State of the Nation
Address in Parliament on Wednesday. "Working together with our
people in the rural areas, we will ensure a comprehensive rural
development strategy linked to land and agragrian reform and food
security, as our third priority," he said. - BuaNews
Online website
Zuma
confirms possible bail-outs for distressed SA firms
- 3 June
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has developed a programme
to fund South African companies in distress as a result of the global
economic crisis, President Jacob Zuma confirmed in his inaugural State
of the Nation address on Wednesday. Speaking during a joint sitting of
South Africa's Cape Town-based Parliament, Zuma indicated that these
potential bail-outs were in line with the framework for South Africa's
response to the international economic crisis, concluded by government,
labour and business in February. - Creamer
Media's Engineering News
website
IDC
will only consider bailing out 'viable' firms in distress
- 3 June
The emphasis given by President Jacob Zuma in his State of the Nation
address to distressed "companies" rather than
"sectors" was an important clarification, IDC chief economist
Lumkile Mondi said on Wednesday. Speaking to Engineering News Online
following Zuma's address to a joint sitting of Parliament in Cape Town,
Mondi stressed that the clarification once again showed that neither the
IDC nor the government had any intention of pursuing "blanket"
support programmes across troubled sectors. - Creamer
Media's Engineering News
website
See
also : New
insight into SA's bail-out model
State
of the Nation Address: SACCI comments - 3 June
Moneyweb website
4
June 2009
FF
Plus: Mulder: State of the Nation response by the leader of the FF Plus
in the National Assembly
4
June 2009
DA:
Smuts: Speech by the DA shadow minister of justice in the National
Assembly
"We
were greatly encouraged by the Hon President's remarks on Wednesday on
the enhancement of judicial independence, even if that independence
was rhetorically presented as part of transformation. The reference to
independence was welcome because it was necessary"
4
June 2009
ID:
De Lille: State of the Nation response by the leader of the ID in the
National Assembly
4
June 2009
IFP:
Buthelezi: State of the Nation response by the leader of the IFP in the
National Assembly
4
June 2009
DA:
Trollip: State of the Nation response by the DA Parliamentary leader in
the National Assembly
4
June 2009
Address by the Minister for Co-operative
Governance and Traditional Affairs, Honourable Sicelo Shiceka, during
the Debate on the State of the Nation Address
4
June 2009
Speech
by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mr G Nkwinti, (MP)
debate on the State of the Nation Address National Assembly, Parliament
5
June 2009
Debate
on the President's State of the Nation Address by Dr Aaron Motsoaledi MP
[Health Department]
5
June 2009
Response
by the Minister in The Presidency responsible for Planning, Trevor
Manuel, on the occasion of the debate on the President's State of the
Nation Address
5
June 2009
Speech
by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on the State of the Nation Address
5
June 2009
An
address by the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angelina Motshekga on
the occasion of responding to the Presidential State of the Nation
Address, National Assembly, Cape Town
9
June 2009
Address
by President Jacob Zuma in response to the Debate on the State of The
Nation Address