No guard for the guardians in SA’s seventh parliament
Critical committees to deal with ethics, intelligence, defence and financial management of the legislature yet to be constituted, allegedly due to ANC-DA bickering
29 September 2024 - 00:00
Some 100 days after it was constituted, South Africa’s seventh democratic parliament has no structures in place to oversee the conduct of spooks and wayward MPs, including scrutiny on how the legislature spends its R4.4bn budget...
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