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MPs hear tales of abuse of farm dwellers by farmers, mines

A delegation of parliamentarians heard allegations that some farmers in Mpumalanga banned farm dwellers from keeping livestock, poisoned water and grazing lands, shot people and stole animals belonging to the farm dwellers. There were also of hundreds of families in the province who could be evicted from their land by mining companies and farmers. The delegation, which visited the province at the weekend, wants these allegations of abuse, forced evictions […]

today31 May 2022

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42 unnamed MPs declared their interests late

At least 42 "honourable" members of Parliament have failed to declare their interests by the set deadline and are in breach of members' code of ethics. However, the chairpersons of the Joint Ethics Committee does not want to name them just yet. At a press briefing on Tuesday, chairpersons Amos Masondo and Aumsen Singh announced that all MPs who were legally obliged to disclose their interests for 2017 have done […]

today6 June 2018

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Extra charges on Sassa card users worry MPs

Members of Parliament have raised concerns that social grant beneficiaries who use social security agency Sassa cards will be charged an extra R10 from the beginning of next month. MP’s say most beneficiaries depend on the grants for their livelihood and the extra charges are unacceptable. Sassa’s Diane Dunkerley says the contract with Grindrod bank which currently manages the card payments has expired. She says it will take three months […]

today29 March 2018

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MPs to consider the Political Party Funding Bill

Private donations to political parties will soon be a thing of the past. This comes after Members of Parliament are due to consider the Political Party Funding Bill in the National Assembly on Tuesday. It will result in the identities of party funders becoming public. Donors to political parties in South Africa have for decades donated money without the risk of their names being made public. But that’s about to […]

today27 March 2018

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Opposition MPs bay for absent ministers’ blood

When President Cyril Ramaphosa famously said "send me" in his State of the Nation Address, it apparently did not include sending his Cabinet to Parliament. On Thursday afternoon, not a single member of Cabinet was present in the National Assembly for members' statements, one of the ways in which Parliament exercises oversight over the executive. Furthermore, the only deputy minister (deputies are not members of Cabinet) present was Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, […]

today9 March 2018

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EFF questions IRR report that 60% of its MPs have left Parliament

The Economic Freedom Fighters have questioned a report released by the SA Institute of Race Relations that suggests 60% of the party’s MPs have left Parliament since 2014. In an op-ed in the Daily Maverick‚ EFF MP and deputy secretary general Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi said the author of the IRR report‚ Gareth van Onselen‚ has a sworn dislike for the party and its internal workings. "Any observer looking at a restructuring […]

today20 February 2018

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How to dissolve the National Assembly

The DA on Wednesday announced that it intends to table a motion to dissolve Parliament on Thursday. This will be a first for a democratic South Africa, and if it succeeds, it will necessitate an early national election. The process to dissolve the National Assembly is set out in section 50 of the Constitution, which states that the president must dissolve the National Assembly if the National Assembly has adopted […]

today10 August 2017

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Hunt on for ‘treasonous’ ANC rebel MPs

ANC heavyweights are threatening to hunt those who voted against President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday as the DA pushes for an early election. Meanwhile, The Times's sister publication, the Sowetan, has established that ANC MPs in a critical caucus meeting before Tuesday's no-confidence vote were told that their jobs could be on the line if they voted to support the motion as it could force an early election. Ricardo Mthembu, […]

today10 August 2017

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Zuma vote: How many ANC MPs broke ranks?

As few as 31 or as many as 40 "rebel" African National Congress MPs may have voted for the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma during Tuesday's secret ballot in Parliament, depending on a range of possible scenarios that could have played out during the vote. News24 has factored in several influences on Tuesday's vote to build possible scenarios involving plausible figures for the total number of ANC […]

today9 August 2017

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