Cosatu has welcomed the move by the National Minimum Wage Commission, which has proposed a CPI plus 1% increase.

Trade union federation Cosatu said the state arms manufacturer is in desperate need of a turnaround if its financial issues are to be resolved.

Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo revealed this in a written parliamentary reply.

Denel told Parliament in August that it currently owes employees over R600 million and suppliers R900 million.

The party's shadow minister for the presidency Solly Malatsi said this includes ministers in the economic cluster as well as Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula

Ramaphosa will then engage with affected ministers and decide on their futures where there is poor performance, Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele said.

The long-awaited report is expected to be handed over to President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.

The deputy president was again put on the spot about his personal health and trip to Russia.

Deputy President David Mabuza has again been forced to come to the defence of Eskom's leadership by members of the National Assembly, who questioned the state of the SOE.

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula shielded Deputy President David Mabuza from answering questions about his trip to Russia to receive specialist medical treatment.

Members of the Parliament took NDPP Shamila Batohi to task for the lack of progress in prosecutions since she took over running the NPA. These include apartheid-era atrocities.

Batohi was put on the spot on Wednesday facing members of the Justice Portfolio Committee to discuss progress in prosecutions.

This was after MPs expressed frustration at a lack of progress in prosecutions for corruption as well as apartheid era atrocities.

MPs described the slow pace of arrests and prosecutions as a “shame” calling on the head of the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) to start showing some results.

The ANC on Tuesday failed to garner enough votes to pass the bill, which would have resulted in the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation.

EFF leader Julius Malema said the process was a complete failure and the ANC is controlled by its “white monopoly capital handlers”, while the DA said the amendment will be detrimental for the country.

The ANC required 267 votes for the Bill to amend Section 25 of the Constitution, but only managed 204 votes.

ANC MP Dr Mathole Motshekga said the amendment must happen to eradicate the "original sin" of land dispossession.