Rights campaigners are up in arms over the ANC’s bid to ram the Protection of Information Bill, stripped of hard-won concessions, through Parliament.
IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini took on the might of the Parliament on Wednesday in a bid to change the rules of the National Assembly.
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/ 25 February 2011
The process of establishing an office to assist Parliament’s oversight of the budgeting process and enable it to amend the budget remains in limbo.
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/ 22 February 2011
Inequality across schools is so extreme that legislation should be amended to force the government to set minimum infrastructure standards.
More than 100 high school learners picketed outside Parliament on Thursday last week to draw attention to education crisis in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 3 February 2011
The ANC has staunchly defended itself against reports that its parliamentary caucus will be going soft on ministers in portfolio committee meetings.
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/ 9 December 2010
The DA will push Parliament’s rules committee to introduce measures to make the president and his ministers more accountable to questions from MPs.
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/ 8 November 2010
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance is considering amending the budget to allow for a zero-rating of VAT on books.
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/ 4 November 2010
The Department of Justice has yielded to requests from the mobile operators to extend the Rica deadline to June 30, 2011.
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/ 28 October 2010
The Democratic Alliance has proposed that Parliament debate what exactly constitutes the minimum standards of the right to education.
ArcelorMittal has defended it’s much-criticised BEE deal to Parliament, saying that "controversy is not the same as corruption".
When a new ANC leadership spearheaded by President Jacob Zuma took power, they were quick to denounce the "autocratic" Thabo Mbeki.
Millions of litres of highly acidic mine water is rising up under Johannesburg and could spill out into its streets, Parliament has heard.
A host of legislative amendments proposed by MPs have not seen the light of day in the National Assembly.
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti on Wednesday dismissed suggestions government intends to nationalise land.
The land reform department’s controversial call for land to be declared a national asset must be seen as a "cry for help".
President Jacob Zuma likes his Cape Town offices at Tuinhuys, but not so much that he wants Parliament to stay in the mother city.
Major opposition parties staged a walkout from Parliament on Tuesday, with accusations of swearing being made by the ANC.
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/ 22 October 2009
No decision has been made to move Parliament to Gauteng and the institution remains in Cape Town, spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
Veteran ANC activist and former MP Kader Asmal has accused Parliament of having no interest in his review of Chapter 9 institutions.
There’s no blueprint, but a slow-burn ”organic” realignment of opposition parties, led by the Democratic Alliance, has begun.
The tasks involved in restoring the SABC as a credible public broadcaster are huge and urgently need to be taken up by Parliament.
Gender parity is still low in top government and parliamentary structures, Gender Links said on Monday.
South Africa’s Parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president, celebrating the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherd.
Preparations began before dawn on Monday to welcome members of South Africa’s fourth Parliament for a session likely to be more robust than the last.
Buying up the debtor’s book of one of the travel agencies involved in the Travelgate scandal will save Parliament money, officials said on Friday.
It has been announced that disciplinary proceedings are being instituted against the secretary to Parliament, Zingile Dingani.
Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won a two-week extension on Friday to form a government, an aide said.
South Africa’s ineffective border patrol poses a threat to the country’s security, a report by Parliament’s portfolio committee said on Thursday.
Instead of spouting more platitudes, perhaps Kgalema Motlanthe could spit it straight in his State of the Nation address.
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/ 6 February 2009
There were some interesting hats at Friday’s opening of Parliament, but nothing to scare the pigeons as much as the 21-gun salute did.