North Korea said on Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month during which Kim Jong-un, is expected to be appointed officially.
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/ 20 February 2012
Committee chairperson clears issue of filling vacancies in the Gender commission.
MPs will be served their fancy State of the Nation dinner in a parking lot, as the normal venue for the banquet is being used by the Mining Indaba.
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/ 2 February 2012
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/ 24 November 2011
Relocating the seat of Parliament to Pretoria would save a fortune on travel and accommodation costs that could be better spent, the ANC says.
Parliament’s ethics committee’s attempt to bring MP Yolanda Botha to book has been derailed by last-minute manoeuvring.
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/ 10 November 2011
The ANC’s chief whip says the Protection of State Information Bill will be debated in the National Assembly next week.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government has no need to change the Constitution to achieve its land reform targets.
Parliament wants to ban a reporter who quoted a "bad apple" official about the government’s controversial secrecy Bill.
The DA’s national spokesperson, Lindiwe Mazibuko, says she will stand against Athol Trollip in seeking the leadership of the party in Parliament.
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/ 23 September 2011
COMMENT: Parliamentary indaba an attempt to usher in a media appeals tribunal through the side door
amaBhungane welcomes withdrawal of controversial law
Yolanda Botha has been given maximum penalty for misleading ethics committee on value of loan.
A war of words erupted between the DA and the government over ministers’ perceived failure to answer parliamentary questions.
Ministers and MPs who "erode the integrity" of Parliament by playing truant will be brought to book, the ANC’s chief whip has vowed.
President Zuma says those who feel the extension of Chief Justice Ngcobo’s term is unconstitutional should have spoken up when the law was drafted.
Parliament is considering the legal merits of a request to give the public access to a hearing into alleged ethics violations by a senior ANC MP.
Cosatu has threatened to challenge the "secrecy" Bill in court if it is passed without changes to ensure transparency and protect whistle-blowers.
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.