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Gallo Images DA MP James Selfe suggested a constituency-based electoral system would improve oversight. OUTA presented how its attempts to aid Parliaments oversight work came to nought. "It is as if there is no oversight in Parliament," Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said on Friday. As chairperson of the commission of inquiry into state capture, Zondo listened to testimony from former and current MPs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday on how Parliament failed to prevent large-scale looting of ...

‘Impunity for those involved in wrongdoing’, Zondo says of Parliament’s oversight failures News24 Wire Zondo heard on how Parliament failed to prevent large-scale looting of the state. “It is as if there is no oversight in Parliament,” Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said on Friday. As chairperson of the commission of inquiry into state capture, Zondo listened to testimony from former and current MPs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday on how Parliament failed to prevent large-scale...

Wednesday 28 December 2016 - 5:39pm JOHANNESBURG, 28 December Officials are not yet certain if Ananias Mathes body will be repatriated to Mozambique. Mathe, one of the countrys most infamous prisoners, died in a Durban hospital after being treated for stomach ailments for several weeks. DURBAN, December 28 (ANA) – The family of Annanias Mathe, the serial rapist and armed robber who made history when he became the only person to escape from Pretoria’s C-Max priso...

Tuesday 2 February 2021 - 11:04am he Commission will continue to hear Parliamentary Oversight related evidence from the Former Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises, Zukiswa Rantho at 09h30 on Tuesday, 02 February 2021. The Commission will also hear evidence from the member of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, James Selfe, and former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament (MP), Dr. Makhosi Khoza. * Edi...

Liza van Deventer, Netwerk24 Former minister of correctional services told a parliamentary committee not to look into Bosasa, DA MP James Selfe told the Zondo commission. Selfe raised the alarm about Bosasa several times, but to no avail. He claimed the government didnt want to investigate it. A former minister of correctional services told the chairperson of a parliamentary committee it would be inappropriate for his committee to discuss the instability at the department brought on by the auto...

Lindile Mbontsi, Gallo Images, Daily Sun Ministers and DGs would attend ANC study groups, the Zondo commission has heard from former ANC MP Zukiswa Rantho. The ANC caucus in  the Fourth Parliament also didnt discuss allegations of corruption and undue influence that were in the public domain. Party leaders sometimes prevented MPs from probing politically sensitive matters. ANC MPs would caucus with ministers and directors-general before meetings in which they were expected to hold them accoun...

James Selfe: I spent years calling for inquiry into Bosasa-govt contracts He’s told the state capture inquiry the African National Congress showed little appetite for investigating the allegations, even after a preliminary special investigating report led to the suspension of an implicated official. FILE: Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament James Selfe. Picture: Christa Eybers/Eyewitness News. 48 days...

The announcement that prisoners would be prioritised for inoculation in Phase 2 of the government’s vaccine rollout plans have been slammed by certain political figures and the public. News24 spoke to two legal experts about the grounds for this decision.


Inmates comprise a vulnerable group in society and they are meant to receive Covid-19 vaccines earlier than the general population. This has sparked debate locally and globally.

Madam mandarin in a free mansion 10 January 2021 - 01:33 By PHILANI NOMBEMBE A senior government official who has lived nearly two years rent-free in a multimillion-rand state mansion on the slopes of Table Mountain has landed in hot water. The department of public works and infrastructure is trying to recover the money. It also wants to haul its regional property management director, Nolizwi Hlengwa, to a disciplinary hearing over her occupation of the five-bedroom Newlands house, part...