Labour and Employment Minister Thulas Nxesi said that the UIF had been able to identify 75 cases of suspicious transactions.

National Treasury said that it could not spend more money as the country faced a debt crisis.

The Bill aims to repeal Section 6 of the Civil Union Act, which allowed for a marriage officer to object to perform a civil union between people of the same sex on the grounds of conscience, religion and belief.

The National Assembly on Tuesday held another debate on gender-based violence following a spate of femicides over the past few weeks.

MPs on Tuesday held another debate of national importance on femicide and the abuse of women.

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Mapisa-Nqakula has appeared before the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to answer oral questions as part of the peace and security cluster.

So prevalent is GBV that the parliamentary debate would not be the first of its kind in the space of a year.

The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Alf Lees said that the business rescue process should ideally have ended in December and the rescue team should have applied to court for liquidation back then.

The UIF said while it had managed to recover most of the money, it was also pursuing criminal cases against certain companies and individuals.

The Constitutional Court gave Parliament exactly two years to fix the anomaly forbidding independent candidates from standing for Parliament.

South Africans might have become accustomed to having an uninterrupted power supply during the COVID-19 lockdown but Deputy President David Mabuza said that the consistent power supply might not last for long after losing four units and two power plants.

Deputy President David Mabuza has appeared before the National Assembly on Thursday to answer oral questions.

The Finance Minister’s budget focused mainly on COVID-19 spending and servicing South Africa’s mounting debt.

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday tabled a supplementary Budget as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille said that her department sometimes used one-star rated accommodation as private quarantine sites, which was rejected by those who were isolated after testing positive for COVID-19.

About 691 employees have not been paid in full since the end of March. Some of them last week demonstrated outside the Department of Public Enterprise’s offices in Pretoria.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to present a budget that builds "national resilience" and is able to weather the economic storm of COVID-19.

South Africa, now on level three, has one of the longest lockdowns in the world and the impact has been devastating with thousands of people losing their jobs as businesses crumble under financial pressure