June 20, 2020
Covid relief & BEE don’t mix, say MPs When the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) were presenting their 2020/21 performance plan to Parliament and after stating that all Covid19 distress funding would be allocated using B-BBEE guidelines, DTIC’s director general, Lionel October, found himself in a spot during questions. He was asked directly […]
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June 17, 2020
….editorial, 30 May 2020 Regulations mania hits South Africa ….. Winston Churchill, perhaps the greatest political and parliamentary figure of the last century, said that if you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Take a look at South Africa where far too many conflicting and nonsensical regulations are espoused on a […]
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June 17, 2019
White Paper re-focuses on immigration, security… Report issued to clients April end 2019….. Gathering a head of steam and running into trouble both at home and abroad, is (former) Minister Siyabonga Cwele’s Draft White Paper on Home Affairs, something that President Ramaphosa clearly attempted to avoid any discussion on before elections. One senses that the […]
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June 17, 2019
Treasury, FIC, Hawks, NPA give Parly update… report to clients end of April … It now seems inevitable that the Minister of Finance will be tabling a General Anti Tax-avoidance (GATA) Bill by July 2019 as part of National Treasury’s plan to protect the tax base primarily aimed, as one MP put it, at “knocking […]
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June 16, 2019
Changing the guard… Plenty of note for business has happened legislatively during the parliamentary recess but perhaps none so important as the re-structuring of Cabinet. As a result there will be a change in the appropriate portfolio committees to reflect any changes and a consequent shift in portfolio responsibility for various Bills held over […]
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June 14, 2019
….PetroSA, CEF and SFF mess gets worse… Article circulated 5 May 2019….. Despite the claim by new acting Group CEO, Sakhiwo Makhanya, that the Central Energy Fund (CEF) annual accounts for 2017/8 have “provided sufficient headroom for growth due to cost containment”, the CEF executive team was unable to convince the parliamentary energy committee chair, […]
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June 13, 2019
Living wills to be recognised by National Health Act A private member’s Bill has finally been tabled in Parliament amending the National Health Act which, if passed, will bring about more certainty on the legal status of living wills. It will provide health professionals, when presented with a living will representing the wishes of a […]
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May 6, 2019
SA’s big black hole in its fiscal galaxy….. It looks like the governing party knows even more about the daylight robbery going on in certain provincial and local government structures than was originally disclosed. A big hole in local givernment spending is still swallowing up millions in taxpayer revenue. Not good news when […]
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