With theft and vandalism, PRASA still not on track .....article dated 10 October 2021..... Despite some good...
Security,police,defence Articles
Call for parliamentary disaster management oversight……
parties to debate disaster management oversight proposals .......article dated 5 August 2021...... A Disaster...
Cadre deployment takes toll at PRASA
...article dated 28 February 2021.... CEO says sorting out the mess... In a meeting of the Transport Portfolio...
Call for parliamentary disaster management oversight……
parties to debate disaster management oversight proposals .......article dated 5 August 2021...... A Disaster Management Amendment Bill, originally published for comment in October 2020, has now finally made it to Parliament and sits for process...
Cadre deployment takes toll at PRASA
...article dated 28 February 2021.... CEO says sorting out the mess... In a meeting of the Transport Portfolio Committee, Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, addressed MPs together with senior members of PRASA's new management team and told them...
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...
New Audit Profession Bill tightens oversight
...... article dated 30 September 2020..... Powers of search and seizure proposed.... In a recent joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Finance Select Committee, both National Treasury and the Independent Regulatory Board for...
Parliament approves new Border Management Authority
......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...
Funny business at the National State Lottery
.........article 25 July 2020........ NLC Commission finally to be investigated... For both the years 2018/9 and 2019/2020, Parliament has been unable to obtain from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) any official list of beneficiaries and any...
Treasury details illicit cash flows
....Finance Standing Committee gets update ...May 2020....In a recent meeting of the Finance Standing Committee, the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Illicit Financial Flows told MPs and chair Joe Maswanganyi that from 2108 until the present...
By-passing Parliament at one’s peril
....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. ...
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...
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,...
