128 Former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has disputed an allegation that she purchased a bearskin in Russia, telling the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that she did not bring such an…
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‘Not legally constituted’: NAC board silenced in Parliament after legal bombshell
112 Parliament has refused to let the National Arts Council (NAC) council answer questions. This after the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture’s (DSAC) own legal head admitted that the council is…
Motshekga and acting DG dodge Parliament as veterans await answers
100 Opposition MPs refused to accept apologies from Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga and the Department of Military Veterans’ (DMV) acting director-general, Nontobeko Mafu. This after they skipped a parliamentary…
‘I don’t need to be lectured’: MPs clash over DMV meeting
105 A parliamentary meeting on military veterans’ court-ordered benefits stalled in a bitter row on Wednesday. EFF MP Carl Niehaus told colleagues he did not “need to be lectured” as ANC MPs…
NAC’s brutal treatment of workers laid bare as salaries get deducted
93 National Arts Council (NAC) workers who went on strike had their whole April salaries taken back without consultation, Nehawu has told Parliament. Some were left owing up to R10,000 at the…
Scores of schools yet to complete BELA admission and language policy reviews
120 Scores of schools have yet to complete reviews of their admission and language policies in line with the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act, prompting Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education…
NAC crippled, DSAC spent a month doing nothing
151 The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) knew on 15 October that the National Arts Council (NAC) council had collapsed below the legal minimum. It is only placing the advert…
NAC board members turned on each other, McKenzie tells Parliament
181 Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has told Parliament that the National Arts Council (NAC) council was so divided that some of its own members asked him to disband it….
Mapisa-Nqakula back in court for R4.5m corruption case
122 Former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is expected back in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday November 11 where she will continue to fight 13 criminal charges relating to allegations that…
McKenzie shocked as NAC CFO fails to explain R40,000 double payment
152 EFF MP Eugene Mthethwa has told National Arts Council (NAC) chief financial officer Reshma Bhoola that she does not deserve her job, after she could not explain a R40,000 double payment…