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Parliament resumes this week after a two-week constituency period. The final term will run for nine weeks, and the programme is packed with activities. Some of the highlights include committee oversight and legislative work, oral questions to the...

TOURISM A White Paper on tourism development and promotion was gazetted for implementation, replacing one published in 1996. This follows the release of a Green Paper in September 2023 for public comment. According to a foreword from Tourism Minister...

Parliament will be particularly busy when it resumes business for the third term next Tuesday. Immediately and foremost will be the annual task of scrutinising the 2023/2024 Annual Reports of Departments and public entities within the ambit of each...

  We’ve reached just over 100 days since the Seventh Parliament was established. This is a milestone for this historic Parliament with no outright majority. The second term of the Seventh Parliament only ran for five weeks but was packed with a number...

NATIONAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AMENDMENT ACT A presidential proclamation was gazetted announcing the Act’s retrospective commencement on 18 September 2024. According to a Presidency media statement issued when the Bill concerned was signed into...

BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (B-BBEE) A broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) code of good practice for the legal sector was gazetted and is now in force. Its implementation will be monitored by a yet-to-be-established charter...

BELA ACT President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech at the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill signing ceremony confirmed that: the BELA Act has joined the statute books the implementation of its school language and admission policy provisions is on...

The constituency period beckons, with MPs due to depart at the end of the week and return to Parliament on 8 October 2024. But a fair amount of work will be done before they go, and there is plenty of opportunity for excitement. In the National...

SOVEREIGN DEBT National Treasury issued a media statement on the outcome of a recent IMF post-financing assessment visit, among other things noting that South Africa was found to have ‘adequate’ capacity to repay the July 2020 USD 4.3bn IMF loan...

A busy and eclectic week of parliamentary action beckons. The President's appearance, a strategic planning workshop, a Ministerial Briefing Session, Oral Question-and-Answer sessions, legislative business, and a few high-profile Committee meetings...