The investment conference will take place between 25 and 27 October, and will see over 800 delegates from around the world descend on Johannesburg.

Mystery clouds Khashoggi's disappearance more than two weeks ago.

On Wednesday, the department briefed Scopa on the maintenance of ministerial houses and the department’s prestige portfolio, which includes luxury apartments.

Members of Parliament’s communications committee had to go through a list of 80 applicants for the four board positions.

The reassurance from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries comes a month after Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi also announced that there is no longer listeria in South Africa.

According to reports, Minister Lindiwe Sisulu told a briefing last week that the Saudi government has shown interest in getting a stake in the ailing parastatal.

The PIC, Africa's largest asset manager, has come under intense scrutiny for some of its controversial investments decisions lately.

The Auditor-General has on Friday told Parliament his office is still not utilising the services of the two companies.

Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says the entities they audit are also getting more technologically advanced.

This was revealed by the SABC board which briefed Parliament's Communications Committee on its annual report on Thursday.

The communications portfolio committee is meeting with the boards of the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) and the SABC on their annual reports.

This follows the Constitutional Court's ruling last month to decriminalise the private consumption and cultivation of cannabis.

Fikile Mbalula was axed as police minister earlier this year in March but still received VIP protection for about four months after that.

The portfolio committee on police will this week conduct public hearings at Parliament on the SAPS audit outcomes.

This is according to the latest South African Citizens Survey for the third quarter of 2018.

This follows media reports that Parliament rewarded executive managers in the 2017/18 financial year.

A breakdown of the over 1,000 police dismissals since 2013 shows 78 were for murder, 29 were for rape, 14 were for aiding an escapee.

Parliament was forced to postpone the adoption of changes to competition legislation brought by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel.