Author: Ansha Krishnan
“Ubuntu is the essence of being a person, of being human and when we praise somebody, the highest form of praise is saying, ‘Ubuntu’. This person in a sense has got humanness. We are often devastated by the amount of evil that there is in the world ...
On Wednesday, the Portfolio Committee on Social Development received a briefing by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) on a few alarming statistics regarding violence against children. Violence against children covers child murders/homicides, sexual exploitation and trafficking, harmful traditional and cultural practices, child labour and bullying.
SAMRC told the ...
Parliament’s National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will host the Provincial Week in all nine provinces from 8 to12 September 2014. The Provincial Week theme is: ‘Together making service delivery work for our people’. The permanent delegates to the NCOP will use this opportunity to:
The provision of water to poor communities is one of government’s key basic service delivery requirements. Currently, there are still communities without this basic need. According to both the Department of Water and Sanitation and the Department of Water Affairs, the number of communities without access to water is projected ...
On Tuesday in Parliament, the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Portfolio Committee on local government audit outcomes for the 2012/13 financial year.
The audit results left Members feeling dissatisfied – while Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal performed well, the rest of the municipalities ...
Minister for Sport and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula, briefed Parliament today on his department’s efforts in resolving the controversial match-fixing scandal involving SAFA officials. The scandal, which involved five friendly games before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, is under investigation by soccer’s world governing body, FIFA, after it came ...
The Portfolio Committee on Police recently heard a presentation by the Central Firearms Registry (CFR), where they briefed the department on measures taken to curb gun-homicides and gun-violence in general. The CFR is a subsidiary body of the South African Police Service (SAPS) who are tasked with regulating the country’s ...
With the sharp rise in the number of rhinos being poached and killed in the past few years, South Africans will be pleased that Parliament is doing its part to address the situation. The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs has organised public hearings in three provinces (the KZN hearings were ...
Access to electricity is a basic need that cannot be unmet by service delivery inefficiencies. Fortunately, as the Department of Energy (DoE) states, 82% of households are connected to the energy grid, which is largely powered by Eskom. Despite the load-shedding problems associated with the giant electricity provider, government has ...
On Tuesday, opposition party Members of the Communications Portfolio Committee expressed frustration with Communications Minister, Faith Muthambi, who was responding on behalf of the Department of Communications to the Public Protector’s report on the South African Broadcasting Corporation. DA and EFF Members accused the Minister of using the sub judice ...
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