On Tuesday, 28 August 2015, SAPS briefed the Portfolio Committee on Police on the measures implemented to ensure the safety of SAPS members and to address unnatural deaths. Statistics showed that 58 police officers had been killed, on and off duty, since January 1st to 24 August 2015, nationwide. The ...
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VIP is opening up a crowd-sourced challenge to our community to suggest crucial issues, topics or policy ideas that young South Africa would like to present to parliament, dubbed the Parliament Challenge. The VIP team will work in conjunction with political experts, civil society organisations and MPs ...
Police Minister Nhleko and the Police Portfolio Committee are currently overseeing the recommendations of the Marikana Report. We all know if we don't demilitarise our police, it's just a matter of time before we have another massacre.
Minister Nhleko wants to set up an expert panel on police crowd control, ...
By Julian Brown
We do not have a crisis of activism or political commitment in South Africa. Instead, we have a vibrant, challenging, and contentious political sphere defined by grassroots activism.
If we’re to believe recent reports in the Daily Maverick, South Africa’s activists are in trouble: Zwelinzimi Vavi believes ...
On Wednesday 9 September 2015, SAPS briefed the Portfolio Committee on Police on the Rhino Task Team based at the Kruger National Park (KNP) and the subsequent arrests, seizures and convictions. The stats also included numbers on poaching and arrests made outside of KNP. The Minister of Environmental Affairs warned ...
After a low key week, the main chambers have scheduled a broad and busy programme, which includes a motion to impeach the President, oral questions to the Deputy President and Economic Cluster; ministerial and members’ statements, policy discussions and debates, and the processing of assorted bills and statutory instruments.
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There's little action on display in the main chambers and committee corridor this week.
The programme has been curtailed in order to give committees time to finalise critical legislation and other work. In addition, the revised schedule has made provision for committee chairpersons to receive media communications training. This is ...
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015, SAPS briefed the Portfolio Committee on Police on progress made with Operation Fiela to date. The programme has come under fire recently with media saying that Operation Fiela, which is supposed to combat crime, seems to be targeted at foreign nationals. SAPS’ presentation showed that ...
According to the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU), every day in Khayelitsha people are robbed, raped and murdered. Every day women, men, and children are deprived of the most basic rights to life, safety, security, justice and equality.
The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry's report was released on ...
This week marks the mid-way point of the third term and the programme has a familiar pattern: lots of unglamorous legislating, oversight and scrutinising, with some set piece battles in prospect.
Fireworks are expected during the debate on the parliamentary ad hoc committee report on the Nkandla upgrades. MPs visited ...