The Defence minister said the hostage incident was not an embarrassment but rather demonstrated that South Africa is a not security state and ministers trust South African enough to meet with them.

The Right2Know Campaign said government’s “go-slow” on the investigation and criminal prosecutions of those responsible for July unrest paved the way for the ministers’ hostage drama.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi said the IFP infographic with a picture of King Misuzulu kaZwelithini was due to “ignorance” and the “fundamental error was not approved by the party’s leadership.

Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, Defence Minister Thandi Modise and her deputy Thabang Makwetla were involved in a tense hostage situation when a group of military veterans prevented them from leaving after a meeting.

The party said it wants to wrest control of the hotly contested Metro from the DA, which has run the metro through a coalition with smaller parties since 2016.

Officials from the North West municipality told the NCOP earlier this week that the dysfunctional municipality had failed to pay pensions and the medical aid of its employees.

While Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been largely silent on whether the initiative actually works, some experts said that it had been a dismal failure.

The Tswaing municipality is the latest North West to be placed under administration after failing to deliver the most basic of services.

Monday, 11 October, marked the end of Mogoeng Mogoeng’s tenure as the country’s chief justice hanging up his robe after a decade.

The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s mayoral candidate for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Nqaba Bhanga, said that racially polarising election posters would not be put up in his city.

The party will be submitting a review application on an urgent basis to set aside the IEC’s latest decision to exclude its name from a section of the ballot paper reserved for party acronyms.

The SABC said the desired revenue targets were also not met largely due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the company’s finances.

The R40 million border fence, erected as part of the COVID-19 emergency procurement last year, was found to have been irregular and the Department of Public Works and the SIU were trying to recover the millions of rands involved in its construction.

The case brought by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is being heard in the Johannesburg High Court.

The R40 million project was found to have been irregular and the Department of Public Works and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) are trying to recover funds from the contractors.

The health portfolio committee met to receive a briefing from Minister Joe Phaahla about the Special Investigating Unit’s Digital Vibes report.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane made the comments while briefing the media on her investigations into public healthcare facilities in a number of provinces.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and her deputy, Kholeka Gcaleka, on Friday, briefed the media on the outcomes of investigations into the state of public healthcare facilities in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.