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Zandile Mafe appeared in the Cape Town magistrate’s court on Tuesday.Image: Esa Alexander

National Assembly ‘arsonist’ is being framed, says woman who fed him outside parliament

A Mitchells Plain mother who feeds homeless people in Cape Town’s CBD believes the man accused of setting the National Assembly on fire is being framed. Venetia Orgill feeds the destitute on Thursday evenings behind parliament. Orgill…

The Constitutional Court has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa did not mislead parliament in relation to CR17 donations. File photo.Image: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES

Cyril Ramaphosa faces his first motion of no confidence in parliament

The National Assembly will debate a motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa next Thursday. It will be the first time MPs will debate Ramaphosa’s fitness to hold the highest office in the land since his election in February…

Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma wearing a doek. File photo.Image: SIMPHIWE NKWALI

MPs heckle each other over doeks and party regalia in parliament

MPs gathered in the National Assembly on Friday for a hybrid sitting of the women’s parliament for 2020 with gender-based violence and femicide scheduled to take centre stage. But the very serious issue affecting millions of women was…

National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise has given the go-ahead to a parliamentary debate on corruption related to Covid-19 procurement.Image: Anton Scholtz. File photo

Thandi Modise gives go-ahead to DA request for Covid-19 graft debate

National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise has acceded to the DA’s request for an urgent parliamentary debate on corruption related to Covid-19 procurement. But she declined the official opposition’s demand that President Cyril Ramaphosa…

MPs call for oversight of the presidency – to avoid another Nkandla

MPs want the National Assembly to establish a new oversight committee which will hold the presidency to account. There has never been a parliamentary committee to which the presidency accounts for the money allocated to it. Opposition…

Thandi Modise

What you need to know about speaker of parliament Thandi Modise

South Africans shared their opinions following the announcement that Thandi Modise will be the speaker of the National Assembly. Modise‚ who is the current chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP)‚ was nominated by the ANC…