Palestinian leaders have set September 15-16 as the dates for their first congress in nearly 20 years after president Mahmoud Abbas announced his resignation as head of a top PLO executive body. The meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO congress representing those in occupied Palestinian territory and[…]
Over 150 activists and artists joined together at Parliament in Cape Town to Unite against Corruption, one day after the Nkandla Ad-hoc committee accepted the recommendations of the Nhleko report. The group were calling on all South Africans to mobilise against corruption ahead of the planned Unite against Corruption marches[…]
“It is clear we will never get an answer from the president. Let’s meet in court.” These were the final words EFF leader Julius Malema delivered in the National Assembly on Thursday, clearly dissatisfied with the way in which President Jacob Zuma answered his question on Nkandla. Malema wanted to[…]
Members of Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Nkandla are struggling to agree on which findings to include in their draft report. After two and a half hours of back and forth between ruling party and opposition members on Wednesday afternoon, the committee was not much closer to finding a resolution ahead[…]
Parliament adopted a new rule on Thursday afternoon that will see disruptive MPs physically removed from the house. The decision was supported by all the political parties in the National Assembly with the exception of the Economic Freedom Fighters, whose members of Parliament have disrupted plenary sessions at least four[…]
The Tunisian parliament has adopted a new “anti-terror” law aimed at beefing up authorities’ powers following recent deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Following three days of debate, the law was adopted late on Friday night, with 172 members of parliament voting[…]
The inability of the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) to recover money owed to it by fraudsters is concerning, Parliament’s portfolio committee on social development said on Tuesday. “This is an area that Sassa and the national department need to improve on. It is an intolerable situation that money that[…]
Drastic action needs to be taken against department officials who abuse SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) funds, says Parliament’s social development committee. “This is unacceptable and should be stamped out of our system,” the committee’s chairperson, Zoleka Capa, said. “Social assistance is not for sale to unscrupulous officials of the[…]
The Greek parliament passed sweeping austerity measures demanded by lenders to open talks on a new multibillion-euro bailout package to keep Greece in the euro, but dozens of hardliners in the ruling Syriza party deserted Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The package was approved with 229 votes in the 300-seat chamber.[…]
Government came under withering criticism on Tuesday from most opposition parties for disregarding a court order to keep and arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in South Africa while attending an African Union summit. Beginning the debate in Parliament in Cape Town, Democratic Alliance MP Stevens Mokgalapa said the executive was[…]
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