Key events on 13 February 2014, the Day of the State of the Nation Address
16.00 to 17.30 – Members of Parliament, including Cabinet Ministers and their guests and guests of Parliament and the Presidency arrive at the Poorthuys entrance to the Old Assembly building.
17.00 to 17.45 - Members of the Judiciary, Provincial Premiers, Speakers of Provincial Legislatures, Members of Executive Committees, the Executive Mayor of Cape Town and heads of mission arrive in Government Avenue in the Company Gardens.
17.30 to 18.00 – Principal dignitaries arrive at the front entrance to the National Assembly building.
18.25 to 18.45 – Processions from the Slave Lodge or the gates of Parliament leave in the following order and proceed up Parliament Street to the National Assembly building:
- Provincial Premiers
- Speakers of Provincial Legislatures
- The Judiciary
- Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy Speaker of Parliament’s National Assembly Ms Nomaindia Mfeketo, Deputy Chairperson of Parliament’s National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Memela
- President Jacob Zuma, accompanied by one of the President’s spouses, Speaker of Parliament’s National Assembly Mr Max Sisulu, Chairperson of Parliament’s National Council of Provinces Mr Mninwa Mahlangu, the Secretary to Parliament
18.55 – The President takes the national salute on a podium outside the National Assembly building. At that time, the military band, the South African Navy Band on this occasion, set up to the right of the National Assembly building, plays the national anthem, there is a 21-gun salute and a salute flight by the South African Air Force.
19.00 - The President begins his State of the Nation Address in the National Assembly Chamber
Broadcast of the Address
On 13 February, the State of the Nation Address will be broadcast live on radio and television and on big screens in various locations in all nine provinces and streamed live on Parliament’s YouTube channel www.YouTube.com/ParliamentofRSA.
Proceedings related to the address will be also broadcast on the Parliament TV
Channel #408 on DSTV from 16h30 on 13 February 2014.
There are two days of debate on the address – on 18 and 19 February – and the President’s reply on 20 February will be streamed live on Parliament’s website, broadcast live on Parliament’s DSTV and YouTube channels.
