Marianne Merten

Feisty African National Congress MP Barbara Hogan’s frustration over Parliament’s failure to exercise proper oversight burst into the open this week when she slammed its handling of the budget and appealed for urgent reforms.

Faced with accommodating the violently opposed views of the mining industry and the labour movement, Parliament’s minerals and energy committee must pass the controversial Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill within a week.

The South African Union of Journalists (SAUJ) has ordered a forensic investigation into its financial affairs. Amid rumours of money squandering, inadequate accounting in two sets of books and concern about union staff’s salaries and benefits

Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon stepped into the DA’s Western Cape "dirty money" scandal on Thursday in a frantic move to contain the escalating damage to the party’s credibility, after the resignation of the respected Western Cape deputy leader, Hennie Bester.

Parliament’s slackening oversight of the executive is said to be a key reason the well-regarded chairperson of Parliament’s finance committee, Barbara Hogan, has decided to quit. It was just a matter of time before Hogan left Parliament and "moved on to other things".

South Africans hoping for an immigration Bill to ease the recruitment of skilled foreign labour have suffered yet another setback with the passing of a law that parliamentarians themselves say is defective.

In one fell swoop German tax-fraud fugitive Jurgen Harksen implicated Western Cape Democratic Alliance leaders in a web of financial favours, illegal foreign currency contraventions and a high life of whisky, wine and good food.

Phasing in a universal R100 monthly basic income grant is a step in the right direction to ease poverty across South Africa through a comprehensive social security network, says the civil society-based Basic Income Grant (BIG) coalition

Two opportunities a year for politicians to defect to other parties would have a disruptive effect on local government, the South African Local Government Association (Salga)warned Parliament this week

SOUTH African Communist Party national chairperson Charles Nqakula’s appointment as the new Minister of Safety and Security has not gone down well in certain African National Congress circles.

THE newly appointed chairperson of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), New National Party MP Francois Beukman, put on a brave face amid scepticism over his abilities to get the controversy-wracked watchdog over government spending back on track

The only white male interviewed for three vacancies on the Bench this week was asked a single question by the Cape’s most senior black judge.

About 900 winged competitors from around the world will test their mettle in the Cape.

The Cape Law Society applied to the Cape High Court to disbar attorney Hoosain Mohammed for allegedly pocketing millions of rands from the Cape Flats.