.........article dated 2 September 2020..... Start made on returned legislation...... Trade and Industry minister,...
Justice, constitutional Articles
Road Accident Fund stays as it was
......article dated 2 September..... Parliament withdraws Bill making settlement changes... The idea that MPs might be...
Little support halts National Gambling Bill
.....article dated 7 September..... Some provinces see Bill as invasive.... The contentious National Gambling...
Copyright Bill goes back to Parliament
....posted on July 13 2020.... Hung by its own petard: Copyright Bill Threatened not so much by the US administration, as Cabinet advisers would like us to believe, but more probably actioned more as per the presidency statement because of...
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...
Bill to end living will ambiguity
.....article June 15 2019... Living Will to be listed in Health Act.... A private member’s Bill has finally been tabled in Parliament to amend the National Health Act which, if passed, will bring about more certainty on the legal status of living...
Home Affairs white paper appears govt meddling
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,...
Tax Avoidance Bill: NPA and Hawks on illicit flows
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...
Parliamentary Overview 12 June 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...
Official recognition to come for living wills
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...
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...
