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Equity Bill bulldozed through committee
....article dated 4 July 2021....... Minister intent on setting BEE targets... The unusually large number of...
Minister holds ground on Employment Equity Bill
....article dated 4 June 2021..... Minister to fix black empowerment targets Minister Thulas Nxesi, in...
Equity Bill bulldozed through committee
....article dated 4 July 2021....... Minister intent on setting BEE targets... The unusually large number of objections from business to the “cavalier approach" by Minister Thulas Nxesi on the fixing of BEE targets for various sectors in terms of...
Minister holds ground on Employment Equity Bill
....article dated 4 June 2021..... Minister to fix black empowerment targets Minister Thulas Nxesi, in leading the presentation of Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) responses to submissions on the proposed Employment Equity (EE)...
Dept. of Communications not performing, say MPs
....article dated 1 May 2021.... New DG promises catch up... During a recent stormy parliamentary oversight meeting it emerged that Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) had met only 50% of its targets for the year 2020/21...
New Transport Bill gives state too much power
Regulator’s powers excessive, say business sectors The Economic Regulation of Transport Bill is now before Parliament for debate, four meetings of the Portfolio Committee on Transport having taken place on this legislation which will establish a...
Minister to set Employment Equity targets
........article dated 15 November 2020..... Parliament briefed on Employment Equity Bill The Minister of Employment and Labour,Thulas Nxesi, has now addressed the Employment and Labour Committee on the Employment Equity Amendment Bill. The...
Parliament goes virtual for lockdown
....20 May 2020... SA first with virtual e-debate ....At the same time as the venerable British Parliament was tackling what seemed to them a totally invasive idea of a virtual e-Parliament, South Africa was simultaneously tackling the same subject...
Latest Cybercrime Bill free of state apparatchik
New Cybercrime Bill ......Every business must have a battle plan In the light of the fact that the Cybercrimes Bill, now passed by Parliament, places obligations on financial institutions and service providers to report incidents to SAPS, it...
Fresh Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill tackles Internet fraud
... Revised Bill criminalises cybercrimes ... posted 5 Aug... A new Bill designed to give powers to the State Security, Defence, Police and Telecommunications Ministers to intervene in many aspects of South Africa’s key economic, financial and...
Barnes prepares SAPO for SASSA
Modernising SAPO a culture change ..... sent to clients 27 February.... Stage by stage, Mark Barnes, Group Chief Executive Officer of South African Post Office (SAPO), appears to be reforming cultures and cleaning out “ten years of decay”, as he...
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Bill invokes suspicion
Cybercrime Bill stated as invasive ...sent to clients 28 Jan... A new law to assist in enforcing South Africa’s fight against cybercrime, hacking and unlawful interception of data is about to be tabled in Parliament. As expected, the proposals...
