Mr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi - EFF

Ndlozi

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is the youngest member of the Economic Freedom Fighters and the National Spokesperson for the party. He is also a PhD student in Political Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand.

Political Background: I was born in 1985 and grew up in Everton in the Vaal area of Gauteng. ...

LiveMagSA: The state of municipalities: Going back to basics

By Sheilan Clarke

Gauteng and the Western Cape are the top performing provinces in terms of the number of municipalities getting clean audits, while KwaZulu Natal has significantly improved since last year. This is according to Minister of Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Pravin Gordhan. He was speaking at a ...

Infographic: The Presidential Hotline - How responsive has government been

The Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation briefed their oversight committee on the efficiency of the Presidential Hotline in Parliament last week. The hotline was set up to deal with citizen complaints by the request of President Zuma. In dealing with complaints, the DPME, who oversees the hotline, is tasked ...

The Week Ahead: End of a Raucous and tumultuous year

South Africans will have to find another way to entertain themselves when Parliament ends this week. The legislature has been the source of regular drama, comedy and even bloody action since the start of the fifth Parliament. Citizens have been lapping up all the action with Parliament frequently trending on ...

Infographic: Substance abuse in South Africa

Last week, the Central Drug Authority (CDA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the state of substance abuse in the country. The Committee received information that showed a concerning increasing in the abuse of drugs and alcohol amongst citizens aged between 15 and 64 years. Members of the Committee were concerned ...

The role of civil society in sustaining our constitutional democracy

Speech by Trevor Manuel For the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture 11 November 2014

In the preparations for this evening, I shocked Francis Antonie with the request that we change the topic of the lecture. My basic suggestion – and the one that appears to have caused all manner of reverberations ...

Infographic: The state of legislative openness in South Africa

Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) – 15 to 25 September 2014 – has People's Assembly take a look at what constitutes “parliamentary openness”. GLOW is an initiative of the Legislative Openness Working Group of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) launched in 2011 with South Africa as one of the eight ...

Parliament must serve the masses

By Professor Daniel Plaatjies

At the heart of this political impasse is the nature, form and structure of proportional party representation in Parliament, writes Daniel Plaatjies.

Parliamentary impasse is a consequence of unrepresentative representatives through the proportional representative (PR) system.

The current impasse in Parliament is a residue of the ...

The problem with Parliament

By Trevor Manuel

In the week Parliament fell into a chaos of #paybackthemoney, it’s a good idea to read this former minister’s ideas on how to fix it (note: it’s not about heckling, eviction or chanting)

While we have myriad democratic institutions that all play a role in supporting good ...

Community essential to police work, says Minister

In his Police Budget Vote address in Parliament on Monday, Minister of Police Nkosinathi Nhleko, said that policing cannot exist without community support and participation, and that policing needs to continue to be subjected to public scrutiny to keep them accountable.

“The NDP [National Development Plan] envisions a state with ...