September 17, 2020
…..article dated 25 August 2020…… DPE presents bleak picture…. As part of a portfolio committee meeting covering the status of the seven SOEs under the umbrella of the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), new director general, Khathatso Tlhakudi, provided a sombre picture of the current financial malaise within the SA public sector. However. he ended […]
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September 17, 2020
……article dated 3 September 2020…… New DG explains ‘step in’ powers….. Khathatso Tlhakudi, appointed recently by Pravin Gordhan as the new Director General, Public Enterprises, recently had the unenviable task of taking on angry MPs to explain the current state of South Africa’s disastrous public utility scenario. It was his parliamentary initiation as the head […]
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September 16, 2020
………article dated 2 September 2020….. Start made on returned legislation…… Trade and Industry minister, Ebrahim Patel, has made it clear to Parliament that in his view the Copyright Bill, which was returned unsigned to Parliament by President Ramaphosa, can be re-written in such a way that all six requirements set by the presidency on the […]
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September 16, 2020
…..article dated 2 September 2020….. CEF to restructure both PetroSA and NECSA….. In what appears to be the first serious attempt to organise and restructure the struggling state entity Central Energy Fund (CEF) and rescue what will now be branded as South Africa’s ‘national petroleum company’ in the form of PetroSA, Minister of Energy, Gwede […]
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September 16, 2020
……article dated 2 September….. Parliament withdraws Bill making settlement changes… The idea that MPs might be able to revitalize the Road Accident Fund (RAF) by changing the method of claims payments under a new Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill has been dropped by the Parliamentary Committee on Transport. The method envisaged, it has been […]
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September 16, 2020
…..article dated 7 September….. Some provinces see Bill as invasive…. The contentious National Gambling Amendment Bill took a nosedive in the Trade and Economic Select Committee of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) following the outcome of mandates received from the nine provinces. When read out they showed that only three supported the Bill, with […]
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September 16, 2020
……article 20 June 2020……. The road to Africa: six new border facilities…. Department of Home Affairs has briefed Parliament on the final plan for the construction of six new modern facilities at South Africa’s border posts, part of a major continental plan to improve cross border trade in the SADC region. The focus at present […]
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September 15, 2020
….article July 20….. Parliament slaps Treasury on PPE procurement…… Last week a corruption weary public learnt that Parliament’s Finance Standing Committee were as outraged as them on the subject of state PPE purchasing arrangements. The complaints started as case after case of cronyism was aired by the media picked up when the additional Supplementary Budget […]
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