The Public Protector briefed the media on Wednesday about 14 investigation reports.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane has also revealed other reports in the pipeline include one of maladministration on the irregular appointment of staff in the City of Johannesburg during the time of former Mayor Herman Mashaba.

The next term of Parliament resumes on 6 October and healthy party members with no comorbidities were told to return to Cape Town for the final stretch after working remotely during the lockdown.

The ANC and DA differ on whether Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula broke any law when she allowed a ruling party delegation to hitch a lift with her to Zimbabwe on a defence force aircraft.

The party says without the report, there’s no way to exonerate Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has come under fire for allowing an ANC delegation to hitch a lift on a South African National Defence Force jet to Zimbabwe.

Dlamini-Zuma said the collective sacrifices of all South Africans have enabled the government to move the country to level one to allow for more economic activity including international travel.

Dlamini Zuma, who is the custodian of the state of disaster as Cogta Minister, made the remarks at a media briefing on Friday to give clarity on the level one regulations.

Lobby group AfriForum wants a declaratory order that the adoption of the Constitutional Review Committee’s report on land expropriation without compensation is unlawful and should be set aside.

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MPs will be interviewed to give their version of events when party officials disrupted the State of the Nation Address (Sona) earlier this year.

The party said an inquiry by parliament’s powers and privileges committee was baseless because they broke no rules when they raised points of order objecting to apartheid President FW de Klerk’s presence at the February Sona.

EFF MPs were referred to the committee for disrupting the National Assembly when its members objected to former President FW de Klerk’s presence at SONA earlier this year.

On the Sona disruption, Parliament’s powers and privileges committee decided in March that it needed further legal investigation because it was difficult to determine who was in contempt of Parliament when disrupting Sona and which members are at fault.

Deputy Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Parks Tau said the problems facing municipalities included deepening debt, a lack of revenue collection and the over-use of consultants.

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday dismissed his appeal against a two-year prison sentence for assaulting a fellow council member with a glass jug.

Section 139 of the Constitution permits a provincial executive to intervene in the affairs of a struggling municipality.

The minister raised concerns on Wednesday about the metro, during a discussion on the second day of the National Council of Provinces’ (NCOP) local government week.

One municipality’s Eskom debt makes up just over 30% of its R6 billion budget. Gauteng local government MEC Lebogang Maile said municipalities are working with Eskom to resolve the debt.