As newly elected Members of Parliament will soon find out, the function of an MP is manifold. Duties range from committee service, policy debating, oversight, and even embarking on international study trips.

People's Assembly has sampled the last five calendar years (2009-2013) of Parliament, and brought you a breakdown of ...

Today in Parliament, Committees continued to elect their chairpersons. During the Portfolio Committee on Police’s meeting, the ANC’s Francois Beukman was elected unopposed as Chairperson. Beukman was the executive director of the police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) between 2009 and 2012. Before defecting to the ANC in ...

In Parliament today a number of the National Assembly’s Portfolio Committees (PCs) met to elect their Chairpersons. As one of the few committees to have been clustered in the Fifth Parliament, People’s Assembly went along to the Justice and Correctional Services PC meeting.

Soon after being elected unopposed to the ...

Parliament is back in session and the main source of parliamentary action this week will be the election of chairpersons for National Assembly committees following the publication of committee memberships last Friday. Even though the ANC announced its list of candidates for committee chairpersons a few weeks ago, these appointees ...

While Wednesday’s debate saw opposition leaders Mmusi Maimane and Julius Malema take centre state in the critique of the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Thursday saw the ANC MPs rise to the challenge of defending the President’s speech. Today saw Zuma give a measured response to issues raised ...

President Jacob Zuma delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in the National Assembly on Tuesday evening, 17 June 2014. People’s Assembly has already reported on the main themes of the Presidents speech including commentary from opposition MPs. A lot has been written about Zuma’s comments on the economy ...

Yesterday’s SONA debates certainly saw South Africa’s Fifth Parliament get off to a tempestuous start. So far, a lot has been said about Julius Malema’s maiden speech in Parliament with regards to the EFF leader clashing with NCOP Chair, Thandi Modise.

Modise rebuked Malema when he spoke about Minister of ...

People’s Assembly has created two word clouds, one for the 2009-2013 State of the Nation Addresses (SONAs) and another for the most recent SONA, which focused on priorities for President Jacob Zuma’s second term. Word clouds are images that consist of words, in which the size of each word denotes ...

People’s Assembly has created two word clouds, one for the 2009-2013 State of the Nation Addresses (SONAs) and another for the most recent SONA, which focused on priorities for President Jacob Zuma’s second term. Word clouds are images that consist of words, in which the size of each word denotes ...

Free and fair elections; we shout it and demand it, but in the end, what does it really mean? People’s Assembly attended a round table hosted by The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office and the Hans Seidel Foundation, where representatives of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) ...