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Members of the South African National Defence Force on patrol in the Johannesburg. (Chanté Schatz, News24) Parliament wants to know why the Department of Defence is not implementing the recommendations of the Defence Force Service Commission.Recommendations are piling up and no action has been taken.Budget cuts are being blamed for most of the SANDF's challenges.Parliament's…

Chiefs do a U-turn on land"The failure of the trust to account for the R22 million allocated to it by the department is noted and therefore the committee supports the suspension of its funds until a review is done," said committee chairperson Zwelivelile Mandela.Vacancies When the trust tabled its strategic and annual performance plans, no budget…

News24 reported the police had contravened legislation by its failure to appoint a head for the police watchdog.The term of the previous executive director of the IPID, Robert McBride, ended on 28 February 2019.This after Cele was adamant he should not be reappointed, and the ANC contingent on the previous Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police…

National Assembly Programming Committee's virtual meeting interrupted by pornMazzone said she wrote to National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise in this regard. The ANC, however, disagreed. "I do differ from you," house chairperson Cedric Frolick responded. He said the meetings have "certainly not been shambolic" and "most are progressing well", although he conceded that there were some…

Mmusi Maimane: We must invoke real oversight over the laws governing this lockdownANC MP and parliamentary counsellor to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Gerhard Koornhof, said: "We must send the message out to the public: Parliament is open, we are functioning."UDM MP Nqabayomzi Kwankwa said the move to physical sittings of Parliament must be gradual."We can't afford…