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.
The IEC said that the sizes of legislatures have stagnated over the past 20 years and had not responded to changing population numbers.
Separate sittings of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Wednesday gave the green light.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africans should not be alarmist about lockdown regulations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he had so far received two interim reports from the SIU outlining the progress the unit had made adding that these reports would be made public once all necessary processes were completed and there was no risk of jeopardising ongoing investigations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula made an error in judgement when she allowed the ANC to hitch a lift to Zimbabwe.
