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Mapisa-Nqakula lists “a big scarf” and a miniature building among gifts...

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Included among the 14 items listed by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in the latest register of MPs interests are...

ISS: Military policing of Parliament: what does SA law say?

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Shortly before his annual State of the Nation address earlier this month, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma announced that he had authorised...

Mapisa-Nqakula has ordered an investigation into military deployment at SONA

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Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, this week told Parliament she has ordered an investigation into the deployment of soldiers before,...

Court order sought to bar military from SA parliament

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South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance said it was seeking a court ruling on the deployment of armed soldiers in parliament saying the...

Parliament defends SANDF deployment for SONA

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No South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers will be deployed within the Parliamentary precinct during President Jacob Zuma's State of the...

SONA preparations on track

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Secretary to Parliament Gengezi Mgidlana says Parliament is ready to host this year's State of the Nation Address (SONA). Mgidlana said this when...

Hawks looking for a helicopter

Specialist crime fighting unit the Hawks has asked Parliament for an extra R100 million to buy a helicopter. The request, made late last...

Speaker of Liberian parliament steps down after indictment

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Liberia's parliament speaker said on Thursday he is stepping down to face bribery charges in a case involving London AIM-listed Sable Mining's...

Ghana parliament speaker bars opposition bid to probe gift to president

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Ghana's parliament speaker on Thursday dismissed an opposition motion for an inquiry into the alleged gift of a luxury car to President...

Egyptian parliament’s human rights chief resigns

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A prominent Egyptian lawmaker has resigned as head of parliament's human rights committee, accusing government and the legislature of failing to address...

Libya unity government still seeking eastern parliament approval

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Libya's UN-backed government said on Wednesday it would continue seeking approval from the parliament based in the east of the country, despite...

Libyan eastern parliament votes against UN-backed Tripoli government

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Opponents of Libya's UN-backed unity government dealt the beleaguered body a blow on Monday by voting to reject it in a rare...

Parliament defence committee meeting canned at the last moment

A meeting of Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) set for today (Friday) where important reports were due to be tabled...

Border Management Authority Bill tabled at portfolio committee

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This week will see Parliament's Home Affairs Portfolio Committee start work on processing the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill. The Authority was until...

New investment law to improve business climate passed in Algeria

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Algeria's parliament on Sunday approved a new investment law the government hopes will improve the business climate outside the oil sector after...

Burundi regional parliament member shot dead

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A Burundian member of the East African Legislative Assembly was shot dead on Wednesday in what Rwanda's foreign minister called an assassination...

Border Management Bill on hold until September

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While Parliament has risen ahead of the August local elections all indications are South Africa will have a new, over-arching authority handling...

Defence Minister looking outside National Treasury to fund the SANDF

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South Africa's shrinking defence budget looks set to shrink even further in the coming few years and this has necessitated Minister Nosiviwe...

Denel sets out priorities to Parliament’s Public Enterprises committee

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The need to export its products to remain profitable has been cited by State-owned defence industry conglomerate Denel in a presentation this...

Police fire stun grenades at striking South African parliament staff

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Anti-riot police fired stun grenades to disperse scores of striking parliamentary workers demanding higher pay outside South Africa's assembly building on Wednesday. Officers...

Parliament Police Committee wants answers on student protest

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The recent student protest outside Parliament will not go away with the Portfolio Committee on Police asking senior police management for a...

Libya’s elected parliament extends mandate, complicating peace talks

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Libya's elected parliament voted on Monday to extend its mandate, due to expire on Oct. 20, in a move likely to complicate...

SANDF only ceremonial during State of the Nation address

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SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Commander-in-chief, President Jacob Zuma, has assured the country its military was part of this year's State of...

State Security Minister on economic and social security

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State Security Minister David Mahlobo said his department will focus on tackling rapidly growing non-traditional security threats to ensure the country's economic...

MPs face daily fingerprinting in Parliament

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As from today "a more efficient mechanism to record attendance" becomes operational in the National Assembly. "The biometric member identification system which uses...

Tunisia’s first parliament after revolution opens session

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Tunisia's first full elected parliament held its opening session on Tuesday with a challenge to implement the democracy its people sought when...

Libya’s elected parliament aims to move to Benghazi, restart U.N. dialogue

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Libya's elected parliament, marooned in a remote eastern town since an armed faction's seizure of the capital Tripoli, aims to relocate to...

Defence Amendment Bill rejected by Parliament

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The rejection of a Private Members Bill by the Portfolio Committee on Defence was this week, inevitably, followed by Parliamentary rejection and...

Libya’s parliament allies with renegade general, struggling to assert authority

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Libya's beleaguered elected parliament has declared a formal alliance with a renegade former general, as it struggles to assert some authority in...

Police mysteriously go missing (on paper)

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In a bizarre reply to a DA parliamentary question the new Minister of Police, Nathi Nhleko, claims there are only 115...

Libya’s new parliament opens, militia factions battle on

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Libya's newly elected parliament held its first formal session on Monday as rival armed factions continued to battle for dominance of a...

New Libyan parliament meets far from city battlegrounds

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Libya's newly elected House of Representatives held its first session on Saturday, holed up in a heavily guarded provincial hotel as armed...

Libya to move new parliament to Benghazi despite collapse of security

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Libya's new parliament will hold sessions in the eastern port city of Benghazi from Aug. 1 onwards to help implant state institutions...

Libyans vote for new parliament in test for transition

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Libyans started voting for a new parliament on Wednesday, in an election that officials hope will ease the turmoil that has gripped...

Al Shabaab attacks Somali parliament, at least 10 dead

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Al Shabaab militants stormed Somalia's parliament on Saturday, killing at least 10 security officers in a bomb and gun assault that the...

Libya parliament moves to luxury hotel after militia attack

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Libya's parliament moved to a luxury hotel on Tuesday until a powerful militia from the western city of Misrata can take up...

Gunmen storm Libyan parliament, raid offices of lawmakers

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Gunmen stormed the Libyan parliament on Sunday and raided lawmakers' offices, a deputy said. Lawmaker Omar Bushah told Reuters gunmen had entered the...

ISS survey: MPs too absent, too often

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As the general elections approach, it is worth noting what, in fact, the people of South Africa will be voting for. Strictly...

Defence Review to Parliament before the end of July?

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Further progress and hopeful approval of the Defence Review depends on the Presidential diary coinciding with that of his Minister of Defence...

Defence Review still awaits Parliamentary airing

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The hard work and onerous hours put in by Roelf Meyer's Defence Review Committee in meeting the tight deadline set by previous...

State Security avoids discussion on amendments to secrecy Bill: DA

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The opposition Democratic Alliance party says the Department of State Security is still dodging debate on the controversial Protection of State Information...

Hawks Bill passed

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The passing of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Amendment Bill will represent a step forward in the fight against organised crime...

Speech: Police: DA: Dianne Kohler Barnard

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DA rejects Hawks Bill: Tinkering will not live up to golden standard set by Scorpions Note to editors: The following is an...

Speech: Police: Minister Nathi Mthethwa

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SPEECH BY THE MINISTER OF POLICE, E.N. MTHETHWA, MP ON THE OCCASION OF DEBATE ON THE SAPS AMENDMENT BILL (DPCI), NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,...

ANC relents on key parts of disputed ‘secrecy bill’

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The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday bowed to pressure on the Protection of State Information Bill, proposing changes in response to criticism...

SAA needs extra R6 billion from state as costs bite

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South African Airways (SAA) warned yesterday it would post a loss this financial year and said it was in talks with the...

Cape public skeptical of “secrecy Bill”

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The Protection of State Information Bill has the potential to create an "oppressive" apartheid-era style censorship, MPs heard in Cape Town on...

DA lists Bills it will oppose, support in 2012

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DA Parliamentary Leader Lindiwe Mazibuko MP has, as part of her party's 2012 Parliamentary agenda listed what draft legislation it will support...

Egyptians head to polls again in parliament vote

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Party agents flooded the streets with banners and verses from the Koran as the third phase of Egypt's parliamentary election began, with...

Egypt liberal calls for shift in tactics

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Egyptian liberals trailing Islamists in a parliamentary election must close ranks and tone down their anti-Islamist fears if they are to succeed,...