In an unprecedented move, the 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA) was indefinitely postponed. With no word from the ruling party on when the SONA will take place or even who will be at the podium, opposition parties have stated their positions.

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On Thursday, all eyes will be fixated on Parliament for the State of the Nation Address (SONA).

The speech, due to be delivered at 19:00 before a combined gathering of Parliament, Cabinet, the Judiciary and the public, will seek to build on the governing party’s January 8th Statement.

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It’s one of the most important speeches that the President delivers in any year. With a prime time tv audience, it is a tremendous PR opportunity for the President to simultaneously lay out his agenda and reassure doubters - both local and foreign.

There are a few safe bets for ...

2018 will be another busy, intense and unpredictable year in Parliament – everything from a possible impeachment to legislative battles to investigations to big-picture policy debates and government performance. Here are some predictions of the main stories that will dominate the headlines this year. However, there are two qualifications: this ...

It's still early days but the legislature has planned a broad and busy programme after a low key week.

With no sittings scheduled in the main chambers, the Committee corridor will again be the main source of parliamentary action this week.

Oversight visits provide Committees with an opportunity to assess ...

By Pierre de Vos.

Late last year the Constitutional Court ordered the National Assembly (NA) to devise specific rules to deal with the impeachment of a sitting President. One of the tasks faced by the NA is to devise a set of criteria to determine what would constitute a serious ...

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation [IJR], the Dullah Omar Institute [DOI], the Public Service Accountability Monitor [PSAM}, the Parliamentary Monitoring Group [PMG] and a growing number of civil society organisations have noted with serious concern the recent Protest Suicide of Lennox Mzuhleli Garane, Section Manager: Multilateral Relations in International ...

The first term of Parliament (23 January to 29 March 2018) will see the first major event of the year, the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Zuma on 11 February 2018. President Zuma will deliver the speech, who many speculate may be for the final time, ...

This Fifth Parliament continues to break new ground.

2017 was a bumper year of parliamentary business, court battles, internal squabbles, jousting, brinkmanship, attempts to remove the President from office, dissolve Parliament and parliamentary inquiries.

With the year done and dusted, we review some of the legislature’s activities, highlights and controversies ...

The conclusion of the parliamentary calendar year sees the Fifth Parliament shut its doors for 2017 after what has surely been one of the most tumultuous political years. People's Assembly takes a look at what happened behind the scenes in the halls of the Legislature with this snapshot of the ...