He’s been asked how government plans to turnaround the parastatals which are billions of rand in debt.

Deputy President David Mabuza was answering questions from Members of Parliament in the National Assembly.

House chair Grace Boroto was presiding over the sitting last year during which EFF members stormed the podium where Gordhan was delivering his department's budget vote.

The red berets are accused of showing contempt for Parliament and for failing to abide by National Assembly rules when they stormed the podium where Gordhan was speaking.

Parliament’s powers and privileges committee has on Wednesday continued hearings into members who disrupted Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2019 budget vote speech.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fight to stop a parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office resumed in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday.

Twenty MPs face sanction after storming the podium in July last year to try to block Gordhan from delivering his budget vote address at a mini-plenary venue.

Twenty MPs face sanction after storming the podium in July last year to try to block Pravin Gordhan from delivering his budget vote address at a mini-plenary venue

“Those are the officials to be held responsible and if they don’t want to give us the names of those officials, the buck stops with the minister. The minister must take the fall, he must resign.”

That is the message from newly elected DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela, who wants the party to win all 30 municipalities in the only DA-run province.

Delegates cast their votes in favour of Madikizela at the party’s provincial congress on Saturday.

DA leader John Steenhuisen said that South Africa was being held back and pulled down by the 'dead weight' of the ANC’s policies.

Self-proclaimed prophet Shepard Bushiri and his wife Mary fled to Malawi last week after they were granted bail of R200,000 each while facing charges of fraud and money laundering.

SABC board chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini has told MPs that the broadcaster was projecting a loss of R1.2 billion.

The minister came under criticism earlier this year when she allowed an ANC delegation to hitch a lift with her on an SANDF jet.

The committee is of the view that the broader investigation by a number of departments will be helpful in clarifying this embarrassment to the cluster and to South Africa as a whole.

The minister on Tuesday appeared before parliament’s home affairs committee to explain the debacle.

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has faced questions from angry MPs about how the Bushiris managed to leave undetected at all points of SA entry.