Thursday was the first time acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appeared before the committee, but she did not have many answers for MPs
The minister and his management team appeared before parliament after another scathing auditor general report was tabled
Adding to the municipality’s legal costs is a pending case between it and Eskom. The municipality owes the national power utility more than R7-million and, after agreeing to pay R5-million, failed to honour it.
National treasury and SIU flag gross misconduct in minister’s department with no heads rolling as millions keep disappearing
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Advocate Dali Mpofu asked the high court to set aside parliament’s rules for an impeachment process and send legislators back to the drawing board
The public protector is not challenging her fitness to hold office, but the rule enabling the National Assembly to remove her from office
The constitution delivered in many areas but SA still has a way to go to ensure people’s rights are respected
From harbouring sexual offenders, settling a near R4-million claim, to an investigation into maladministration, fraud and corruption; this is the Dr Beyers Naudé local municipality in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.
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A 827-page register compels members of parliament publicly to declare anything worth more than R500, and it makes for interesting reading
Bongani Bongo, Zandile Gumede and Sindiswa Gomba are also among the parliamentarians affected by the step-aside resolution
The speaker told the Zondo commission she doesn’t know why the legislature woke up to state capture so late, but believes this won’t happen again
Mkhuleko Hlengwa has pointed to people in Eskom or the public enterprises department for making the document public
Salaries account for 65% of the South African Bureau of Standards’ total operating costs
High court dismisses the public protector’s bid to appeal a ruling striking down her findings against Pravin Gordhan on Ivan Pillay’s Sars retirement
A high efficacy rate for a single-dose J&J/Janssen Covid-19 vaccine might help to speed up the much-needed roll-out plan
The deputy president, who also the chairperson of the interministerial committee on Covid-19, was responding to questions in the National Assembly
The deputy president, who also the chairperson of the interministerial committee on Covid-19, was responding to questions in the National Assembly
Neither the minister nor deputy minister stayed for the duration of an urgent committee meeting to discuss funding challenges for university students
MPs express frustration at the shoddy work done by the dysfunctional, broke airline and its rescue practitioners, calling their no-show ‘unacceptable’
A fire at parliament’s old assembly building was put out in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The extent of the damage is yet to be determined
The ANC chairperson has instructed its caucus ahead of the vote to establish a committee to investigate the public protector’s fitness to hold office
Everything you need to know about South Africa’s options for holding municipal polls — and the dangers we face.
The health minister said supply may be constrained but the department was finalising more vaccine deals
The provinces cite limited capacity and funds to implement the regulations
Its court application to force disclosure of donations to Cyril Ramaphosa may mask a bid to portray him as a capitalist puppet
The finance minister has said it’s not an austerity project. But the numbers and economists disagree
The official opposition’s leader John Steenhuisen has called its mission to slash the ANC voter share unrealistic during a parliamentary meeting, as the party deals with financial challenges
and a fresh round of staff retrenchments
The public protector was wrong to think legal review was the remedy for incompetence on her part; it is, in fact, removal, an independent report concludes
Former state security minister walks free after judge finds there is not sufficient evidence of attempted bribery to scupper Eskom probe
At a portfolio committee meeting on Tuesday, developing a sustainable funding model for the SABC was top of the agenda
Peter Mbati’s appointment at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria is under the spotlight
The sole remaining witness flounders on the first day of the higher education portfolio committee investigation into SMU vice-chancellor Professor Peter Mbati