Last month's voter registration weekend was cancelled due to high infection and mortality rates due to COVID-19 and the IEC believes the inability to register could be grounds for elections in October being challenged.
The IEC wants the highest court in the land to grant a postponement of the polls from 27 October to the last Wednesday in February next year.
The government on Tuesday officially proclaimed 27 October as the date for the polls, but this was just to allow for the IEC to approach the Constitutional Court with a legally determined date.
Minister of Cooperative Governance, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the IEC was expected to approach the Constitutional Court this week to urgently ask for the local government elections to be postponed.
Dlamini-Zuma, the minister responsible for proclaiming the date, said in order for the IEC to approach the court for a postponement of the elections, they must have been officially proclaimed.
Economic Freedom Fighter MP Nazier Paulsen is alleged to have threatened to assault three opposition parliamentarians in March.
The committee tasked with the inquiry met on Wednesday to be briefed by parliamentary legal services on the process.
Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi said that 75,000 jobs were on the line in the wake of the deadly carnage in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
The Labour and Employment Minister said government would assist them with the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
The ad hoc committee tasked with the Section 194 Inquiry has been briefed by Parliament’s legal services on its way forward.
Tito Mboweni was billed as due to deliver the keynote address at the virtual gathering, hosted by the little-known Bishopz Foundation. There were about 100 participants.
Correctional Services was already battling with overcrowded jails, staff and budget cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is dealing with a flood of remand detainees who are putting resources under further strain.
Correctional Services said that the attempted mass prison breakout involved nearly 200 remand detainees.
He’s told Parliament’s justice committee that some actions, including the burning of key national installations and the blockading of roads may fall within the parameters of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act of 2004.
Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said that it was estimated that the province’s gross domestic product (GDP) had suffered a R20 billion setback.
Veteran African National Congress (ANC) politician Qubudile Richard Dyantyi wants to hit the ground running with the parliamentary inquiry into the fitness of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office.
The chaotic scenes saw at least 212 fatalities nationwide.
The committee tasked with the inquiry chose seasoned ANC MP Qubudile Richard Dyantyi as its chairperson on Tuesday morning. He was elected unopposed.
