Regulator’s powers excessive, say business sectors The Economic Regulation of Transport Bill is now before Parliament...
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New Audit Profession Bill tightens oversight
...... article dated 30 September 2020..... Powers of search and seizure proposed.... In a recent joint meeting of...
Parliament approves new Border Management Authority
......article 20 June 2020....... The road to Africa: six new border facilities.... Department of Home Affairs has...
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...
Gigaba pushes for control of border posts
Treasury, Home Affairs at odds on customs issues Parliament will be debating in the new session in August the Border Management Authority Bill. What the Bill proposes is a single state entity known as the Border Management Authority (BMA) to...
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...
Border Management Authority around the corner
SARS role at border posts being clarified .... In adopting the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs agreed with a wording that at all future one-stop border posts, managed and administered by the...
FICA Bill could meet new task force deadline
OECD money task force waiting for SA ....sent to clients Feb 7.... Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Yunus Carrim, made it quite clear in terms of parliamentary rules that further debate on the FICA Bill aligning SA to global...
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...
Liquor licensing may have impractible conditions
DTI gets tough with age limits ...sent to clients 17 Oct..... In what will be a tough ask, Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies has proposed a number of changes to the National Liquor Act, the most contentious being to raise the legal...
FIC Bill hold up goes to roots of corruption
Bill originally approved by Cabinet ...... sent to clients 20 Aug.....Going to the heart of the issues facing National Treasury on money laundering and financial crime, or in this specific case the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Bill (FIC...
Justice changing face of small claims courts
Small claims courts doubled..... Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr Andries Nel, in his budget vote speech, gave an update on small claims courts in the country, stating that there were now 277 such courts as distinct...
All not well in the trucking industry
Call that corruption exists In answer to a call made by the portfolio committee on transport on the state of the trucking industry in South Africa, it became evident from responses by the department of transport (DoT); from the Road Freight...
