On Thursday evening NGOs Ndifuna Ukuwazi (NU) and Equal Education (EE) hosted an election debate at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha as part of their 20:20 seminar series. Chaired by EE’s Yoliswa Dwane, the panel included ANC/Cosatu’s Tony Ehrenreich, DA’s Masizole Mnqasela, EFF’s Andile Mngxitama and Agang’s Sandile Eland.

The ...

The ANC has two constituency offices in the Khayelitsha area. People’s Assembly decided to pop into the one on the corner of Spine and Ntlazana Road to get an idea of what kinds of services it provides.

Constituency offices were set up to so that people can have direct contact ...

The issue of spaces for engagement between civil society and government is one that continues to be controversial as many debate that these spaces are closing down or being underutilised. This was a matter raised at a debate chaired by Inyathelo which provides support for South African civil society. DA ...

There has been a two-day stand-off with the Speaker and his spokesperson refusing to confirm the establishment of a parliamentary committee to investigate Nkandla. People’s Assembly does not understand this coyness as parliamentary papers announced this committee today as a fait accompli.

The Speaker of Parliament announced the appointment of ...

Since the start of this election year, accusations have been made about important pieces of legislation being pushed or “bulldozed” through Parliament, specifically pointing fingers at the ruling party who has been accused of rushing through bills to garner more support from the public.

Some of the concerns were that ...

Since July 2009, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has reviewed and in some cases, either approved or rejected, interventions in six district municipalities, 30 local municipalities, and six provincial departments (one in the Eastern Cape and five in Limpopo), according to Parliament. Most of the interventions were as ...

Following yesterday’s lively exchange between Freedom Front Plus MP, Pieter Groenewald, and Acting Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform Minister, Lechesa Tsenoli, which saw Groenewald get thrown out of the National Assembly for telling the Minister he was talking “nonsense”, People’s Assembly saw an opportunity to report ...

The People’s Assembly website has been set up to bridge the divide between ordinary citizens and their elected representatives. One of the ways we do this is by providing contact details- this includes parliamentary office numbers, constituency office numbers and personal cell phone numbers- of MPs.

However in this technological ...

There is a new phenomenon among the elderly in South Africa – the use of condoms as a remedy for arthritis.

This unusual cure was revealed to none other than the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, by one of his ANC colleagues during a Health Portfolio Committee meeting ...

Parliament’s Joint Rules Committee (JRC) has finally adopted an attendance policy for its Members. The main objective of the policy is to set minimum standards and create obligations on Members for attendance and participation in parliamentary business. Although the Rules of Parliament will prevail over the attendance policy in a ...