On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, the South African People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins (SAPToA) and the South African Human Rights Commission will make representations on Highly Hazardous Pesticides and other Agrotoxins to Parliament’s Portfolio…
While all eyes were on the Finance Minister’s Budget Speech yesterday, a small handful of Members of Parliament voted “no” to direct elections and greater transparency and accountability in public office. Political Parties banded together…
DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone wants parliament to produce a “clear document” which details the qualification requirements for MPs. Mazzone rose on a point of order during the second leg of the Sona debate on Wednesday in defence of DA…
MPs are so concerned about the declining performance of the Department of Justice that they want the Public Service Commission (PSC) to assist the underperforming department to get its house in order. The portfolio committee on justice…
Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded that the economic reconstruction and recovery plan he presented to parliament last week “may not sound new”, but “political grandstanding” on it was unwarranted. In a spirited defence of his widely criticised…
Parliament has received and is considering “a barrage of objections” related to the process it followed in interviewing and appointing new members of the controversial National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). This is according to…
Demonstrations about gender-based violence and farm murders at parliament in Cape Town on Saturday ended with the arrest of 18 protesters. Witnesses said about 1,000 women gathered in Roeland Street at 11am, shortly after the first…
Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was grilled by MPs on Thursday night regarding the theft of weapons at military bases. Mapisa-Nqakula was asked to brief parliament’s joint standing committee on defence and the theft of military…
Parliament has begun deliberating on a bill sponsored by the EFF, which would see the amendment of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Act in order to allow for the Bank to be nationalised. The EFF, SA’s third biggest party, seeks to…
Minister of justice and correctional services Ronald Lamola has published a draft law regulating legal dagga possession in SA, ahead of its submission to parliament. The Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill comes after a Constitutional…
Prosecutions boss Shamila Batohi says the prosecuting authority wants to use the skills and capacity built up in the Zondo commission as it does not possess such expertise. “The skills are very rare. There’s very few that have these…
The national coronavirus command council (NCCC) has not stripped parliament of its powers to hold ministers managing the Covid-19 crisis accountable. This is according to Deputy President David Mabuza, who on Thursday appeared in…
Activists took to parliament on Wednesday in protest over the death of George Floyd, who died at the hands of Minneapolis police in the US recently. Protesters, organised under the banner of the Black Solidarity Campaign, brandished…
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…
An analysis of 2017-18 financial reports submitted to Parliament by government departments and entities has revealed irregular expenditure of R72.6-billion. Fruitless and wasteful expenditure‚ money that could have been saved if…
