ARTICLE: IS SASSA EATING THE POOR?
On 23 November 2016, Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in the National Assembly called the Minister of Social Development, the Auditor-General and members of the Hawks, together with the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), to a hearing on the weighty matter of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
A close reading of the minutes of the Committee attest to an Agency befuddled and fiddling while millions of South Africans are drawn deeper into poverty. The patience of the Portfolio Committee was severely tested by playing sleuth in the absence of comprehensive responses and the total absence of institutional accountability, this despite the Committee having provided SASSA with a list of key questions prior to the hearing.
The previous Public Protector’s report on state capture has been released and the political impact of the report and its findings have already been felt, and will be for some time. What happens after the Commission of Inquiry (the Commission) publishes its report, findings and recommendations? What influence will these have on the Zuma presidency and his successors?
The FW de Klerk Foundation unreservedly condemns the assault on Mr Victor Rethabile Mlotshwa on a farm near Komati Power Station in Middleburg, Mpumalanga.
On 16 November each year, since 1995, members of the UN pause (or not) to reflect on the meanings of tolerance and its destructive converse, intolerance.
On behalf of the FW de Klerk Foundation, we salute a brave warrior of freedom and democracy, George Bizos, on his 88th birthday. 
According to media reports and transcripts Julius Malema told his supporters outside the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court yesterday that: