EMPOWER EACH OTHER TO ENSURE PUBLIC FUNDS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR, MR FROLICK URGES SADCOPAC MEMBERS (2nd October 2023)

The House Chairperson of Committee at the National Assembly, Mr Cedric Frolick, addressed the Southern African Development Community Organisation of Public Accounts Committees (SADCOPAC) on behalf of the Speaker, who couldn’t make it due to a prior commit Read more

SPEAKER WELCOMES CUBAN DELEGATION TO PARLIAMENT (5th June 2023)

In welcoming the Cuban First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Gerardo Penalver Portal and his delegation to Parliament recently, the Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said Parliament was honoured to receive them. Read more

SPEAKER TELLS LEARNERS THEIR RIGHTS ARE RECOGNISED (13th April 2022)

The Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, told learners they are fortunate to live in a constitutional dispensation that protects their rights, unlike before, when Black people had no constitutional rights. Read more

SPEAKER MAPISA-NQAKULA INVITES MAKHANDA LEARNERS TO PARTICIPATE IN LAW MAKING (12th April 2022)

The Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has urged Makana Local Municipality learners to participate in law making, as the laws passed in Parliament derive their legitimacy from meaningful public participation. “We seek to de Read more

SPEAKER LAUNCHES MAKHANDA PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY OFFICE (12th April 2022)

The Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has urged her Parliamentary Constituency Office (PCO) staff, especially field workers, to raise the office’s level of interaction with the people it serves. In these interactions, the Read more

BACK-TO-SCHOOL PROGRAMME KICKS OFF IN MAKHANDA (12th April 2022)

During the opening ceremony of the Back-to-School programme in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape, the mayor of Makana Local Municipality, Ms Yandiswa Vara, and the Speaker of Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Ms Nomhle Gaga, welcomed Read more

PARLIAMENT’S CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED FOLLOWING FIRE INCIDENT (14th January 2022)

The Presiding Officers of Parliament are certain that the national legislature will continue carrying out its constitutional mandate despite the devastating fire that caused extensive damage to parts of the parliamentary precincts earlier this month. Read more

COOPERATION AT CENTRE OF NEW SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENTARY INSTITUTE (9th December 2021)

Since South Africa’s democracy began, Parliament and the nine provincial legislatures have operated as discrete entities, brought into close proximity by the broad brush strokes of the legislative prescripts flowing from our Constitution. Read more

MINISTERS IN ECONOMIC GOVERNMENT CLUSTER ANSWER QUESTIONS IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (22nd November 2021)

The Ministers of the government departments that fall within the economic cluster appeared before the National Assembly (NA) last week to reply to questions concerning the performance of their respective portfolios. Read more

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER HOLDS REGULAR EXCHANGE MECHANISM MEETING WITH CHINA (22nd October 2021)

The National Assembly and the People’s Republic of China’s National People’s Congress held the fifth Regular Exchange Mechanism (REM) meeting today to assess progress with the bilateral cooperation and solutions to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pan Read more