Boikagong Centre in Mahikeng has been closed for almost two years because it did not meet safety requirements. The discarded children say they want a safe place to learn, but instead endure rape and other violence
The high court has said it would be in the public interest given the importance of motions of no confidence in the president, to settle whether MPs can vote in secret
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
The Western Cape high court has found that Speaker Thandi Modise applied her mind when rejecting the ATM’s demand
The National Assembly’s decision will be at once about the future of the public protector and about the street fight for power in the ANC
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The party says ‘toxic atmosphere’ in the ANC will affect MPs votes of no confidence against Ramaphosa
Only 50 people will be present and everyone else will attend online, which is likely to save the state some money
The party wants the court to rule on the secret ballot issue first, with the case set to be heard in early February
Lawyers have told Parliament’s higher education portfolio committee that it can’t examine sexual misconduct allegations against Vice-Chancellor Peter Mbati
Ramaphosa tells Parliament that the military deployment to curb Covid-19 will cost more than R600-million
The legislature will suspend its business indefinitely from Wednesday, after a final sitting to pass two pieces of critical legislation to keep the wheels of government turning
Hundreds of legislators won’t be able to meet in parliamentary chambers after restrictions on gatherings to curb the spread of Covid-19 disease
ANC MPs test the EFF’s disruptive tactics on the leader of the Red Berets in Sona reply
Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot
Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times
Julius Malema’s 44-member caucus stick to their guns: ‘Fire Pravin or else’
The official opposition says the president’s state of the nation speech will not detail anything new or productive. Meanwhile, the EFF is threatening more disruption
The former president’s lawyers say they do not know how where Parliament obtained the information about his attendance
The public protector has labelled her possible impeachment as unconstitutional and unlawful
Much is at stake both for the president and Mkhwebane in the most significant legal and political battle of Ramaphosa’s first year in office
The National assembly speaker’s case over her abandoned farm will be heard at the end of October
Following criticism from cultural groups, a praise singer will be heralding the president’s arrival.But costs will be kept to a minimum
This is not the first attempt by opposition MPs to remove advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane from her post
The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi.
This week: Life in the camps
With a weaker ruling party and more numbers in the more vocal opposition parties, her work will be cut out for her.
Mkhwebane’s initial report made no findings against former Free State Premier and now ANC secretary general Ace Magashule, and Mosebenzi Zwane.
The president says he is still finalising just how his administration will look like
Changes include Thandi Modise for speaker of the National Assembly. North West premier Job Mokgoro also keeps his job
The DA has written a petition to the president asking that he consider remitting the Bill back to Parliament based on procedural irregularities
The bill will enable voters to cast their votes even if their addresses aren’t on the voters’ roll yet
In 2015, a protracted legal action was initiated after it emerged that animals had been starving on the multimillion-rand farm of Modise in 2014.
The EFF leader is set to be inducted into the legislative body of the African Union alongside four other South African MPs