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/ 6 February 2009
At the opening of Parliament on Friday, there was a mix of traditional dress, Afro-chic and more conventional designer- and store-bought outfits.
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/ 6 February 2009
A spokesperson said on Friday that the former president had already made other plans by the time the invitation to the opening had arrived.
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/ 30 January 2009
Sanef has welcomed President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision to refer back to Parliament the controversial Films and Publications Amendment Bill.
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/ 29 January 2009
African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema on Thursday declined nomination for a seat in Parliament, the league said.
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/ 29 January 2009
The African National Congress’s national executive committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the party’s list of parliamentary nominations.
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/ 26 January 2009
Bizarrely, ruling party MPs repeatedly suggested that, had Pikoli indulged in a little communist self-criticism, he might have kept his job.
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/ 22 January 2009
ANC member Tony Yengeni cannot serve as an MP due to his fraud conviction and sentence, according to both ANC and parliamentary criteria.
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/ 14 January 2009
Proposals by an independent review panel for reforms to restore the credibility of Parliament don’t go far enough, says panel member John Kane-Berman.
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/ 12 January 2009
Motlanthe’s decision to sack Vusi Pikoli has been referred to Parliament for a final verdict and will be tabled on Monday
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/ 11 December 2008
ANC chief whip Mnyamezeli Booi promised on Thursday that Parliament would be rigorous in its examination of the axing of NPA head Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 25 October 2008
Politicians will have significant say over what
the new super SAPS unit investigates.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe has been pegged back in a week of setbacks, but is preparing to reverse his opponents’ gains in Parliament.
AfriForum on Wednesday welcomed a decision by the National Assembly’s public works committee to withdraw the controversial draft Expropriation Bill.
Sotyu proclaimed that the Scorpions would be dissolved because the ANC had decided to do so, despite public hearings into the issue.
Work has come to a halt on the Expropriation Bill, and although there been no announcement, the hold-up seems to lie with Parliament’s legal advisers.
The liquidator trying to recover money owed by MPs says the Speaker of Parliament is not giving the full story.
Despite assurances that laws abolishing the Scorpions would be passed by Parliament by June, it looks as though the crime-fighting unit is going to have a few more months to live.
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/ 12 February 2008
In the second instalment of his interview with Kgalema Motlanthe, Ebrahim Harvey speaks to the ANC deputy president about healing division in the party, unity among the alliance partners and the Polokwane ‘revolution’.
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