Just like the rest of the country, Parliament vibrates with concern about the recent spate of xenophopic attacks . As part of countrywide efforts to counter these incidents, the legislature has suspended its plenary sittings for this week to allow MPs to go to their constituencies and mobilise their communities ...
Political background: I am from Driekoppies Malelane district in Mpumalanga. I joined the ANC formally in 1994 whereas; I had been involved since the age of 12 years before then.
I then served in the ANCYL as an additional member in the executive structure of the Malelane branch in the ...
By Ndimphiwe Gilili
Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Pam Tshwete visited six schools in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 January. The visits were part of her constituency work, which is intended to bring parliamentarians closer to communities that they serve. Tshwete, who is responsible for ...
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. ...
By Rofhiwa Maneta
Meet MP Makashule Gana. He’s a young politician with a trademark black beret. At only 31 years of age, he’s currently the Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister for Human Settlements. What does a day in the life of MP Gana look like? What does he see and who ...
Do you know who your MP is? Government representatives have a notorious reputation for either being evasive or only surfacing when they are in the thick of a scandal. It’s no surprise, then, that most people have no idea who their MPs are and how to get hold of them. ...
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 ...
Makashule Gana holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science) from the University of Limpopo and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Wits Business School. He has been a member of the DA since 2002 and has served in several capacities, including that of DA Youth National Leader. Currently, ...
Parliament resumes this week after a two-week constituency period. The third term will run for seven weeks and the programme is packed with activities. Some of the highlights include oversight and legislative work, questions to the Executive, review of the national budget and the National Council of Province’s Oversight Week. ...
With the second term of the Fifth Parliament done and dusted, People’s Assembly takes a look at what happened behind the scenes in the halls of the Legislature. The parliamentary review provides a snapshot of the work done by public representatives in the Fifth Parliament, summarising all the facts you ...