Taxpayers could fork out around R8 million for this year’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) proceedings. This year’s Sona will, like in 2022, be hosted at the Cape Town City Ha… Read More

The South African National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete today has a busy programme as part of leading the country’s participation in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 139th… Read More

Baleka Mbete was born on 24 September, 1949. She is a South African politician who is Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa since 21 May 2014. Previously she was Speaker of t… Read More

Parliaments of the world must help break the back of exclusion and under-representation of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields and related professions. This… Read More

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has requested an urgent meeting with Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete to press her on making a decision on a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.Th… Read More

After facing enormous task in steering the State of the Nation Address last week, National Assembly Spoke person Baleka Mbete stated concern over the country’s current political condi… Read More

The Presiding Officers of Parliament, Ms Baleka Mbete and Ms Thandi Modise, will brief members of the media about Parliament’s preparations and state of readiness to host the 2019 Stat… Read More

Speakers of BRICS Parliaments, have given a preliminary nod to a proposal of the South Africa to formally establish a BRICS Parliamentary Forum by March 2019 in South Africa. Speaker of the… Read More

South Africa’s top court will rule on Friday on a bid to compel the country’s parliament to launch impeachment proceedings against President Jacob Zuma over a scandal related to… Read More