The DA's Yusuf Cassim said that young learners at Lundini Primary School were forced to relieve themselves at a tree where the school governing body chairperson told him they'd recently discovered a black mamba.
The annual event marks the opening of Parliament and is being held at the Cape Town City Hall because a fire damaged the National Assembly chamber last month.
These include bills that further regulate and recognise customary marriages as well as a number of gender-based violence bills aimed at enhancing government's fight against women and child abuse.
Deputy Health Minister Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo was quizzed by members of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on the introduction of a vaccine mandate.
Officials from the North West municipality told the NCOP earlier this week that the dysfunctional municipality had failed to pay pensions and the medical aid of its employees.
The Tswaing municipality is the latest North West to be placed under administration after failing to deliver the most basic of services.
Eskom is currently being unbundled into three separate entities - generation, transmission and distribution - as part of its turnaround.
Deputy Minister in the Presidency responsible for state security, Zizi Kodwa, said that the violence and looting that happened in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal last month was a carefully coordinated attempt to destabilise the country.
National Council of Provinces members are expected to grill the deputy president about the amendment of legislation to increase private electricity generation with the red tape being cut significantly.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africa’s security agencies were monitoring the situation in the neighbouring nation and the possible spilling over of violence into South Africa.
The inter-ministerial task team on the North West led by Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her Justice counterpart, Ronald Lamola, were to give an update on what progress it had made in the province.
Members of Parliament (MPs) reflected on a quarter of a century since the passing of the supreme law, acknowledging those who had created from all parties.
Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo made the comments while delivering the keynote address at the start of a workshop being held by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise appeared before the state capture commission on Monday where she told Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo about the national legislature's failures in holding the executive to account.
The deputy president said they wanted to get to the bottom of all corruption claims at Eskom, but would not focus on race.
The Hawks and Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on Monday briefed the National Council of Province (NCOP)’s ad hoc committee.
While Parliament budgeted R2.2 million for the event, the bill was expected to be minimal because the only significant cost would be the webinar that connects parliamentarians and guests online.
They made the call during a joint meeting of the National Assembly Basic Education portfolio committee and the NCOP select committee on Wednesday night.
