The DA and the ANC’s fight over the blue party’s demand to see the governing party's cadre deployment records has reached its final hurdle, with the Constitutional Court now the ultimate arbiter in the protracted battle.
The government spent almost R400,000 on pest control at one minister's house in just three months, as part of a R93m splurge - paid by taxpayers - on sprucing up cabinet members' official residences between 2019 and 2022.
Almost a year after her deployment to a parliamentary committee that oversees the country's spies, the DA’s Natsha Mazzonne has been unable to attend a single meeting of the committee.
As South Africans suffer under load-shedding, ministers and their deputies have been shielded from blackouts by the government spending more than R7m to buy generators and inverters for them at their official homes.