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Road Accident Fund stays as it was
......article dated 2 September..... Parliament withdraws Bill making settlement changes... The idea that MPs might be able to revitalize the Road Accident Fund (RAF) by changing the method of claims payments under a new Road Accident Benefit...
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...
Economic Regulation of Transport Bill plans for future
.......article 15 July...... Its all about regulating prices, says govt.... The Economic Regulation of Transport Bill, now in final process in Parliament, represents the complex task of bringing together a multitude of factors governing the...
Battle of the Bulge
.......editorial .....August 2020....... What size the SA public service? It is plain to see that the country’s major liability in terms of over-expenditure is the massive public sector wage bill which, by any standard, is totally out of proportion...
Employment Equity Bill sets BEE targets
.....article July 26.... Minister gets tough on B-BBEE.... At the same time as Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, tabled in Parliament the new Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Bill proposing that new BEE targets for business and...
Face out in Parliament
editorial....July 13 2020... High Noon... Parliament recently saw a drama being played out that was reminiscent of the old and famous movie where, after a long number of small confrontations, the two parties shoot it out in Main...
FFC: budget cuts may worsen service delivery
....article dated 20 July 2020.... Balance between needs and cuts required.... The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), the independent body which reports to Parliament on intergovernmental financial relations (IGFR) in terms of the...
Eskom starts internal overhaul
.....July 7 article..... De Ruyter keeps his cards close When asked by parliamentarians if Eskom would be calling upon retirees and ex-employees to assist with the Eskom recovery plan, CEO André de Ruyter told a joint Public Enterprises meeting...
DoH updates MPs on NHI
article July 15 2020...... Hopes for transversal tendering by 2025/26 ....Dr Gail Andrews, Chief Operations Officer at Department of Health (DoH), told Parliament that the department hopes to have a “public transversal contract” in place before...
NECSA says nuclear will come to SA
......may 15 2020...... A damaged NECSA plans its energy future ..... The South African Nuclear Corporation (NECSA), with an employee role beyond its capacity as a result of waiting for a R750bn nuclear programme which never arrived, might be...
Hopes pinned on PetroSA comeback
...... may 15 2020..... CEF outlines plan to save PetroSA ...... In a series of statements to Parliament’s Mining and Energy Portfolio Committee, acting CEO of Central Energy Fund (CEF), Lufuno Makhuba, surprised many with a promise of not only...
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...
B-BBEE included with Covid relief regs
Covid relief & BEE don’t mix, say MPs When the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) were presenting their 2020/21 performance plan to Parliament and after stating that all Covid19 distress funding would be allocated using B-BBEE...
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Speaker of the House
Ebrahim Patel
Minister of Trade Industry
Pravin Gordhan
Minister of Public Enterprises
Tito Mboweni
Minister of Finance
Floyd Shivambu
EFF
John Steenhuizen
DA Leader
Kimi Makwetu
Auditor General
Glynnis Breytenbach
DA Advocate