{"id":43872,"date":"2026-08-27T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43872"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:10:46","slug":"sa-parliament-rejects-motion-of-no-confidence-against-speaker","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-parliament-rejects-motion-of-no-confidence-against-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"SA parliament rejects motion of no confidence against Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motion of no confidence against South Africa&#8217;s (SA) National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, has been defeated in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motion was brought by the opposition, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) following Didiza&#8217;s decision not to oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s urgent interdict application in the Western Cape High Court, which sought to halt the parliamentary impeachment process against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the parliamentary debate, EFF leader Julius Malema argued that Didiza failed to demonstrate impartiality and prioritised the interests of her party, the African National Congress , over the institutional independence of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the EFF&#8217;s push, the National Assembly voted down the motion, allowing Didiza to retain her position as head of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43873,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43872","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA opposition party's motion to remove Speaker Thoko Didiza fails","published_date":"2026-08-27 09:06:38","news_description":"SA opposition party's motion to remove Speaker Thoko Didiza fails","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43874,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43872\/revisions\/43874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}