......article 20 August 2020..... The road to Africa: six new border facilities Department of Home Affairs has briefed...
Trade & Industry Articles
Post Office calls for R4.1bn to get through year
.... article dated 1 October..... Treasury reports of poor management at SAPO.... The parlous situation at the SA Post...
Public Enterprises reports on Transnet
.....article dated october 15 2020..... Parliament hears latest on Transnet transformation Minister of Public...
Fight over Reserve Bank Bill shareholding
.... article dated 30 September 2020.... EFF Bill states nil compensation for shares..... Making headlines in Parliament for all the wrong reasons is the stormy debate over an EFF private members proposal, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)...
Parliament updated on SOE finances
.....article dated 25 August 2020...... DPE presents bleak picture.... As part of a portfolio committee meeting covering the status of the seven SOEs under the umbrella of the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), new director general, ...
Minister Patel and the Copyright Amendment Bill
.........article dated 2 September 2020..... Start made on returned legislation...... Trade and Industry minister, Ebrahim Patel, has made it clear to Parliament that in his view the Copyright Bill, which was returned unsigned to Parliament by...
PetroSA part of new energy plan
.....article dated 2 September 2020..... CEF to restructure both PetroSA and NECSA..... In what appears to be the first serious attempt to organise and restructure the struggling state entity Central Energy Fund (CEF) and rescue what will now be...
Little support halts National Gambling Bill
.....article dated 7 September..... Some provinces see Bill as invasive.... The contentious National Gambling Amendment Bill took a nosedive in the Trade and Economic Select Committee of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) following the...
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...
Warning shot fired over PPE stocks
....article July 20..... Parliament slaps Treasury on PPE procurement...... Last week a corruption weary public learnt that Parliament’s Finance Standing Committee were as outraged as them on the subject of state PPE purchasing arrangements. The...
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...
