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.
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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.