North west protests
ANC: Job Mokgoro remains North West premier
The North West post was the only one outstanding with the ruling party having decided on premiers for the other seven provinces it governs last week.
Job Mokgoro delivered the State of the Province Address in Mahikeng on Friday.
The provincial government says this is part of efforts to galvanise the region, following the recent spate of violent protests.
The DA's Joe McGluwa says the ANC should move its attention from internal politics and rather focus on tackling corruption in the provincial government.
An ad hoc committee of Parliament has on Thursday heard the intervention team is doing well in unearthing irregular contracts and containing irregular expenditure.
Under Supra Mahumapelo’s watch, overall audit outcomes in North West got worse and the urgings of state auditors seem to have been ignored.
The ad hoc committee on North West is briefed by National Treasury, Auditor General and North West provincial government on its fiscal position.
Dondo Mogajane says the government had to intervene in North West because of problems in financial management and supply chain processes.
After he was sworn as premier earlier on Friday, Job Mokgoro said he would work to ensure victory for the ANC at the polls next year.
Months after anti-Supra Mahumapelo protests ravaged the North West province, foreign national business owners who had their shops looted and their lives threatened are left struggling to recover.
Scores of schools were shut after violent protests demanding the resignation of former premier Supra Mahumapelo.
The Financial and Fiscal Commission says the national government is not necessarily better at delivering services than the provincial governments themselves.
Mabuza has promised that remedial action will be taken once the final report of the inter-ministerial task team has been presented to Cabinet.
Supra Mahumapelo resigns as North West premier during a press briefing at Luthuli House and blames so-called counter-revolutionaries for destabilising the province.
Minister Dlamini Zuma says once they are done assessing the situation, intervention teams will be put in place.
Sambatha delivered a message of support to Nehawu at the Montshiwa Stadium.
The union is demanding an end to the outsourcing of services by the provincial government and an investigation into corruption.
The group has hit out at the state of the ANC in NW and the lack of governance that’s led to national government placing the provincial government under administration.
By invoking Section 100 of the Constitution, national government will take charge of the running of all the provincial departments in the North West.