ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile has conceded generous donors are shunning the party since the enactment of the Political Party Funding Act

At the heart of the issue is Mkhwanazi’s availability to appear before the parliamentary ad hoc committee, while at the same time he is due to appear before the judicial commission of inquiry led by Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, between September 17 and September 22.

Public works minister Dean Macpherson says his department is this year extending the conduct of lifestyle audits on “400 high-risk officials” after completing those on 48 senior managers in the 2022/23 financial year.

DA leader and agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has strongly rebuked President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of “double standards” for axing deputy minister Andrew Whitfield, while ANC ministers “lying to parliament” and “accused of state capture" remained untouchable

Deputy president Paul Mashatile has invoked the sub judice rule to deflect parliamentary questions on the police's controversial acquittal of his bodyguards at a disciplinary hearing in April.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has agreed to establish a committee between the Presidency and the National Treasury to identify wasteful, inefficient, and underperforming spending programmes.

The government has set aside more than R20bn to save thousands of jobs in the public health sector, including hiring 800 doctors.

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has allocated an additional R4bn to Sars to help it strengthen its capacity to collect more tax revenue.

Government is conducting security assessments at aerodromes and private airstrips as some of them are suspected of being used for illicit activities such as arms, drugs and human trafficking.

The government has started urgent discussions with various local and global funding organisations in a bid to raise money to address a budget shortfall in its anti-HIV treatment programme