While Jacob Zuma has congratulated the DRC for successfully holding its elections, protesters have accused him of overlooking election fraud.
Thuli Madonsela’s office says the protector is looking into the medical parole matter of Clive Derby-Lewis, who killed SACP leader Chris Hani in 1993.
Convicted murderer Clive Derby-Lewis plans to challenge the department of correctional services on its decision not to grant him parole.
Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula visited the alleged torture victim, saying ill treatment of inmates would not be tolerated.
A Cape Flats school provides a haven in a community terrorised by gang warfare.
Sending a 49-member delegation to a United Nations gender summit in New York was a gross misuse of public funds, the DA said on Monday.
Correctional services on Sunday dismissed a report that Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula forced herself on to the guest list of a UN gender summit.
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/ 23 November 2010
The criminal justice system needs to do more to protect women living in abusive conditions, Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 September 2009
The Special Investigating Unit has handed Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula a docket on what may be one of SA’s largest cases of fraud to date.
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/ 25 October 2008
Politicians will have significant say over what
the new super SAPS unit investigates.
As police announced the launch of "specialised units" to combat the deadly xenophobic violence in Gauteng and the National Intelligence Agency confirmed that it was probing the violence, the government on Tuesday stood accused of serious policy failures that "created a tinderbox of unmet expectations which exploded in Alexandra".
Opposition parties on Monday lambasted the government for its handling of xenophobic violence in parts of the country, and even called for the army to be deployed. Mobs roaming through poor townships around Johannesburg have killed and beaten up immigrants over the past week, with Zimbabweans and others reporting purges by armed locals.
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/ 13 November 2007
Members of Parliament heard on Tuesday that the South African Post Office has made 40% more trading profit in the first six months of this financial year than it did last year. Chief financial officer Nick Buick said that the six months’ net profit for this year was R210-million, 20% above last year’s interim result.