Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the eThekwini Municipality was an example of the apartheid spatial planning patterns with the majority living far from work.

The issue was addressed at a briefing on Monday following the party’s first-ever policy conference over the weekend.

They also want Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille to shoulder the blame for giving the directive.

The main resolutions from the conference include the party’s controversial policy on economic justice, which also rejects using race as a proxy to inequality.

Kimi Makwetu on Friday briefed Parliament’s standing committee on the Auditor-General about the management of COVID-19 initiatives.

Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu has already released his findings earlier this week, which showed that dead people, prison inmates, public servants, and children below the legal age to work received COVID-19 benefits.

The Helen Suzman Foundation wants lawmakers to come up with special legislation to govern the state’s fight against the pandemic.

The Gauteng Division of the High Court has on Thursday heard an urgent application seeking an order directing Parliament to pass special legislation for management of COVID-19 in South Africa.

Eskom board chairperson Professor Malegapuru Makgoba and Eskom management briefed parliamentarians on Wednesday. They updated the Standing Committee on Appropriations on several issues related to finances and investigations.

The MPs standing committee on appropriations on Wednesday quizzed Eskom management on how far they were in recovering the R4 billion.

Jan Oberholzer was accused of corruption, dishonesty, conflict of interest, and abuse of power in relation to alleged links to Eskom contractor, Stefanutti Stocks.

Members of Parliament on Tuesday held a debate of national importance on recent farm murders following a request by the Democratic Alliance (DA).

Tuesday’s debate of national importance was sponsored by the Democratic Alliance (DA) focussing on recent farm attacks and the murders of farmers and farm workers.

The deputy president will take oral questions from the NCOP later this week after postponing two previous appearances in the National Assembly due to ill health.

That’s one of the messages from government’s security cluster which has held a gender-based violence virtual dialogue on Monday.

He’s one of several ANC members who have been asked to step aside while they clear their names.

Parliament has heard submissions from academics, people living on farms as well as organisations representing landless communities on the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Amendment Bill.

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has told Parliament that weapons continue to go missing from the defence force, and now she wants answers. She gave an update on the investigation into the theft of 19 rifles at the Lyttleton base in Pretoria.