President Jacob Zuma has been accused by opposition MPs of "cheapening" the lives of those who died at Marikana by refusing to release the report.
Snarky remarks, shouting matches and not so thinly veiled insults dominated President Jacob Zuma’s question and answer session in Parliament.
It’s disconcerting when our Constitution’s founding mothers misconstrue the rationale behind constitutional guarantees of MPs’ freedom of speech.
Sticking points, such as the decriminalisation of sex between children aged 12 to 16, have seen the amendment Bill go a month over deadline.
The Western Cape High Court has ruled that the Powers and Privileges Act is only applicable to non-members of Parliament.
Opposition MPs have taken the basic education minister to task in Parliament after she praised the state of South Africa’s "well-resourced" schools.
Twenty-one years after the country’s first democratic elections, some praise the strides made by the ANC and others condemn SA’s gross inequality.
The ANC defied any reasoning from Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that her office needed more funding, but the opposition united in her defence.
The portfolio committee on home affairs has asked difficult questions concerning the messy problem of xenophobia.
The NPA and other state institutions are working together to speed up the prosecution of perpetrators who commit xenophobic attacks.
MPs say transfer pricing, though legal, presents challenges when determining if firms have evaded taxation and they want the practice criminalised.
Media houses want the Western Cape High Court to declare it was unlawful to use a signal jamming device during the Sona in February.
The dramatic events in Parliament over the past two days have put Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s position under severe pressure.
Our president doesn’t deserve even an ugly or poorly made statue, but he does deserve to fall, like the statue of Cecil John Rhodes did.
To act radically in the current South African situation requires a daring imagination in relation to manifold areas of hardship.
Baleka Mbete claimed a Concourt ruling didn’t apply to Parliament, after Mmusi Maimane called President Jacob Zuma a thief during a debate.
The DA’s argument to overturn a parliamentary rule allowing Mbete to call police to remove MP’s was "extremist", says senior counsel for Parliament.
Readers speak out on nuclear safety, transformation and a visit to Parliament.
Parliament’s programming committee has demanded that Zuma appears before the House by the end of April instead of the proposed November 3 session.
Our democracy suffers when the speaker of the National Assembly becomes a cheerleader for a particular party or for one particular individual.
The applicants argued that it was the constitutional right of every citizen to have an accurate representation of what occurred in the House.
AfriForum says President Jacob Zuma’s undertaking that the ANC would continue to defend minorities were empty words.
Minister Jeff Radebe says it was disappointing to see MPs disrupt Parliament, showing no regard for those who sacrificed their lives for democracy.
We must see the evidence of how views held by some ANC top brass may have led to the death of people living and working in South Africa.
Parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete has apologised for likening EFF leader Julius Malema to a cockroach at a recent ANC gathering in North West.
With the economy in a precarious state, and the load-shedding crisis adding to the country’s woes, President Jacob Zuma is under pressure.
DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach plans to reintroduce a Constitutional Amendment Bill in Parliament this year to save SA’s "prosecutorial independence".
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The ANC has accused opposition parties of disrupting Parliament with headline-seeking stunts as the EFF heads to the Concourt over its suspended MPs.
Most committees are weak, lack political will, discourage public input and prevent oversight on spending.
The rough and tumble in Parliament recently not only highlights subtle shifts in parliamentary culture, but also cultural differences in society.