Polokwane inmates to watch SONA

EFF’s Floyd Shivambu is wearing his trademark red berets and overalls for President Jacob Zuma's SONA this evening

Hundreds of inmates at the Polokwane correctional facility will watch President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address (SONA) on television.

Polokwane Commissioner, Kenneth Mthombeni says this will allow the inmates to be part of the democratic process that South Africans are experiencing.

He says: “The purpose really is to deepen democracy and make meaning. Through IEC they voted and its only logical that they continue to be part of this process. Our calling, our duty as the department is to rehabilitate them and it is important and imperative that they be part of that process because tomorrow we want them to be good citizens.”  

Meanwhile, the Economic Freedom Fighters are wearing their trademark red berets and overalls for President Jacob Zuma's SONA this evening.    

One of its Member of Parliament, Floyd Shivambu, has brought both of his parents with him to Cape Town to witness the annual opening of Parliament.  

Even Shivambu's mom is wearing red pants. "We said it from the very word go that we will be wearing the overalls in all of the major events in parliament, and that it exactly what we are doing.  We are consistent with what we have said before that in all the major occasions of parliament, we are going to be wearing workers' clothes and we are not going to change.”  

 SABC