Parliament

MPs slam Social Development’s annual report

Problems include lapsed foster grants, missed targets for elderly, too many roadshows and much more

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Parliament | 7 November 2017

Treasury steps in to break social grants deadlock

SASSA and Post Office fail to reach agreement

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Parliament | 2 November 2017

Western Cape needs half-a-billion rand for water crisis

MP demands to know why National Disaster Management Centre refused requests for help, yet underspent its budget by R300m

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Parliament | 26 October 2017

Money for police forensic services diverted to Home Affairs

Forensic services gets R1.7 billion; VIP protection gets R1.4 billion

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Parliament | 26 October 2017

2,200 police firearms lost in three years

MPs furious at cops for not being able to look after their weapons

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Parliament | 19 October 2017

MPs grill regulator over train safety

But the Railway Safety Regulator’s answers are thin

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Parliament | 19 October 2017

Foster grants – Bathabile Dlamini’s next national embarrassment?

Six years after ruling, huge backlogs persist as December court deadline looms

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Parliament | 12 October 2017

Fears of more school disruptions in Limpopo

Threats of another shutdown in Vuwani as matric exams near

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Parliament | 12 October 2017

Fired parliamentary security boss speaks out

Zelda Holtzman was suspended in 2015 a short while after she raised questions about the misuse of state vehicles

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Parliament | 10 October 2017

Education department’s “accelerated” school infrastructure programme hardly moves

620 schools left without electricity, 270 without water, 256 without sanitation in the financial year the department planned to provide them

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Parliament | 6 October 2017

Only one third of SASSA disputed deductions resolved

MPs grill agency on damning annual report

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Parliament | 6 October 2017

Police watchdog struggles to finalise investigations

IPID is grappling with staff and budget cuts while it has a soaring caseload

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Parliament | 5 October 2017

Under the blanket: questions over SASSA’s social relief programme

Agency spends millions on “promotional” issue of blankets

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Parliament | 3 October 2017

Learners in Limpopo town unable to write exams

Department of Basic Education under fire for shifting blame and not putting in place contingency plans

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Parliament | 15 September 2017

Parliament in court over its high paid bouncers

New elite security team displaces long-serving parliamentary protection officers

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Parliament | 13 September 2017