Edward Kieswetter took over from Tom Moyane in April 2019 and since then he has been trying to restore the organisation's credibility.

The South African Council of Educators said it dealt with complaints of corporal punishment, verbal abuse, sexual misconduct and rape.

Garane killed himself in his office last year over the working conditions in the national legislature.

According to the World Health Organization, every 40 seconds a person commits suicide somewhere in the world.

Oppositions MPs accused them SAHRC of letting black offenders off the hook while vigorously investigating and punishing white people.

MPs from the parties on Tuesday told the commission that it treated complaints against white people more vigorously than it did those against black people.

Deputy Federal chairperson Mike Waters said that Helen Zille should be allowed back into the DA's top structures.

On Friday Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams announced the struggling public broadcaster has been given a R3.2 billion lifeline by the national treasury.

The minister said the SABC met most of the preconditions for a government bailout and would get the first transfer of R2.1 billion on Monday.

A written parliamentary reply by Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu revealed that the state had spent over R60 million on former heads of states since 2016.

Minister Jackson Mthembu's reply showed how former President Kgalema Motlanthe cost the country the most to the tune of R16 million since 2016.

SAA and SA Express are joined by state-owned mining company Alexkor and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, which have also failed to submit their reports.

The spokesperson for the SABC Vuyo Mthembu said the organisation had not paid performance bonuses in the past five years.

The likes of SAA and regional sister airline SA Express will not be able to meet the deadline to table their reports on the last financial year.

The DA said South Africa’s vulnerable rural communities were under siege.

One of the DA’s proposed solutions was the establishment of rural policing sectors or police stations that served a particular rural area.

The Auditor-General on Tuesday listed a number of concerns around the South African Broadcasting Corporations (SABC)’s annual financial statements, from irregular expenditure to poor consequence management and contravention of procurement regulations.

The Office of the Military Ombud is an independent office tasked with the responsibility to ensure that complaints by current and former defence force members are investigated and resolved.