Parliament will start paying its white-shirt bouncers a danger allowance. It emerged this week that the so-called bouncers, officially referred to as “chamber support officers” in Parliament’s organogram, would receive R400 a month when Parliament was in session because of the dangers at work. They were hired to remove disruptive MPs. Several parliamentary sources said they believed the amount to be R800 a month, but Parliament officially set the amount […]
Parliament has revealed that it recruited active police officers to become part of its protection services because its existing protection officers did not have the necessary critical skills required to engage with and control unruly MPs. This emerged in court papers, filed this week, in which the House disputes accusations of unfair discrimination against its protection officers after having recruited active cops at higher salaries. Sixty-nine long-standing protection officers took […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
