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Zondo commission – Ramaphosa probed on Parly ANC’s poor stance on capture Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by The ANC in Parliament did not cop out of investigating allegations of state capture by the...

The Academy Awards Live Blog 2021 The Academy Awards Live Blog 2021 By Theo Smith and Katie Evans on Welcome to our live coverage of the 93rd Academy Awards. Join us as we discuss and react to tonight’s ceremony! 23.15 23.29 And that’s all folks! Thanks for sticking with us despite all our technical difficulties! To recap, here are the five big winners: BEST FILM – The Revenant BEST ACTRESS – Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BE...

Amendment to Employment Equity Act will benefit only the politically connected, parliament hears Cosatu welcomes the proposed amendment but the IRR says only the elite will benefit.   Stock photo Image: rawpixel/123rf.com A possible amendment of the Employment Equity Act will benefit only the elite while the majority of black people in SA will continue to suffer, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) told parliament on Tuesday. But union umbrella body Cosatu rejected thi...

MPs to decide Mkhwebanes future By Mayibongwe Maqhina Share Cape Town – The parliamentary process to impeach Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a step closer to starting. This became evident earlier this week when the National Assembly announced the special committee to conduct the inquiry to establish whether the charges were sustainable and to report to the House. Parliament spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said in a statement the 26-member committee was constituted by all 14 political parti...

It’s no secret that corruption is the scourge of South Africa. Millions of misappropriated funds have been swindled from the national piggy bank, straight into the pockets of the dishonourable. As Paul Hoffman notes below, ‘without swift reforms the scourge of corruption is likely to overwhelm SA and derail our constitutional project started with such high hopes and lofty aspirations in 1994′. SA’s economy wasn’t in a prime position, even before the advent of Covid-19. The virus has d...

EFF heads to court over Parliamentary bid to oust Mkhwebane The EFF is unhappy with Parliaments possible inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has said it intends approaching the courts, in a bid to challenge Parliament’s decision to go ahead with the inquiry looking into Public Protector, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office. A total of 275 members of Parliament (MPs) voted in favour of the inquiry o...

ANC caucus agrees to parliamentary inquiry on Busisiwe Mkhwebane Share Cape Town - The ANC caucus in Parliament agreed to support the process to set up an inquiry to deal with the removal of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. On Saturday ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said the caucus discussed the matter at length. The statement from Majodina comes after some ANC members have publicly said they would not support a motion from the official opposition to remove Mkhwebane. She said it was not abo...

How will the ANC handle the public protector’s impeachment? By Opinion Professor Sethulego Matebesi No South African will deny that the most criticised Chapter Nine institution in recent times has been the Office of the Public Protector. Five years ago, the National Assembly endorsed advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s candidacy as the fourth public protector with an overwhelming majority vote in 2016. Since then, a litany of adverse court rulings created a see-saw effect between those who ...

SA: Women’s rights top priority in pandemic Date: March 9, 2021 By Colleen Lowe Morna Johannesburg, 9 March: The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges faced by women worldwide, said ambassadors, other government officials and civil society leaders at the Gender Links Women’s Voice and Leadership Awards ceremony on International Women’s Day yesterday. It is a year since Covid-19 sent nations across the world into various forms of lockdown, with the first anniversary of South Afr...

Now that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has successfully secured a three-month extension of the life of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture he has chaired so patiently and for so long, there is time and space available to complete the arduous work of taking evidence and to prepare the report he has been tasked with completing. Hopefully, there will also be funding. It needs to be borne in mind that the findings of fact of any commission of inquiry of the kind the deputy chief Justi...