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The Speakers’ Forum of South Africa (SFSA), has expressed distress at the disaster caused by floods, which has reportedly claimed over 253 lives in Kwa-Zulu-Natal over the last few days.   The first Speakers’ Forum meeting of 2022 was briefed of the ravaging floods in KwaZulu-Natal, which also resulted in the Speaker of the KZN Legislature being unable to attend the meeting. They expressed collective condolences to families that lost loved ones and wished the injured a speedy re...

The National Assembly wing, which was razed by a fire on 2 January, has been severely damaged but is unlikely to collapse, according to a preliminary structural engineering assessment.



The South African Parliament said its committee on financial management has been updated on an independent assessment to the damage to Parliament buildings due to a massive fire in January.According to the assessment following the fire on ...

The structural engineers appointed to assess the parliamentary precinct revealed that the Hawks completed their investigation of the buildings this week.

It’s been three months since this fire caused severe structural damage to five floors of the National Assembly building, and totally razed the main chamber. 

Today, Friday 1 April 2022, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) updated the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament on the progress with the independent assessment of the Parliament fire damage. Today’s briefing follows a meeting between the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Minister Patricia de Lille earlier this week, where the Minister and DPWI provided an update to the Speaker with regard to the independent...

"Nothing destroys like fire. That beautiful building, it's all gone," said a shocked senior ANC MP on Friday after engineers presented their initial assessment of damage caused by the fire at parliament.

The man accused of setting fire to Parliament Zandile Mafe has made another appearance at the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Friday morning.

A facial comparison report has linked Zandile Christmas Mafe to the CCTV footage recorded at the time of the fire that gutted the National Assembly and parts of the Old Assembly.

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said they were still dependent on the engineers appointed by the public works department to assess the damage.