Jan Gerber

The gap between policies, plans and bureaucracy on the one hand and lived experiences on the other was the central theme of the budget vote debate of the Department of Human Settlements on Wednesday.

The South African Police Service shouldn’t be Hollywood, said BOSA leader Mmusi Maimane as he reflected on the number of “actors” among the police’s top brass, including the acting national commissioner and her acting deputies.

The evidence leaders of the ad hoc committee on the underworld’s infiltration of the criminal justice system found a “serious and multilayered institutional crisis” in which “systemic gaps in executive oversight” on the part of President Cyril Ramaphosa played a part.

On the eve of the first-ever meeting of an impeachment committee in South Africa, it has emerged that President Cyril Ramaphosa will not seek to interdict the committee commencing with its work, as long as the impeachment inquiry does not start.