That week in Parliament

In February 2018, the National Assembly adopted a motion proposed by the EFF, with amendments by the ANC that Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee investigates mechanisms through which land can be expropriated without compensation. The Joint...

Domestic Violence Amendment Bill Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill Criminal and Related Matters Amendment Bill   Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology 23 Feb 2021               ...

The NHI Bill was introduced to Parliament in August 2019 and is currently under consideration by the National Assembly’s Portfolio Committee on Health. You can track the processing of the Bill here   18 May 2021: National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill:...

COVID-19 STATE OF DISASTER   School contact sports were suspended on 19 May in a Department of Basic Education media statement to be confirmed by notice in the Government Gazette.   FISHING RIGHTS   The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the...

  There are a few weeks left until Parliament’s mid-year break. In the remaining days, the legislative body is scheduled to consider and vote on several Bills, conduct important debates, appropriate funding, scrutinise government performance, oversee...

COVID-19 STATE OF DISASTER The State of Disaster has been extended to 15 June. The Department of Social Development has updated stakeholders on progress with an early childhood development practitioner relief programme introduced as part of the...

  Parliament will largely be consumed by Budget Vote debates this week. The debates allow for Parliament, and the public, to be updated about what departments are doing, how they are performing and exactly how public money is being used in a forum...

From the Government Gazette and Media Statements  COVID-19 STATE OF DISASTER The Department of Basic Education has confirmed that its presidential youth employment initiative, focusing on supporting learning and teaching in schools during the Covid-19...

It’s the second week of budget-related meetings as Committees continue to interrogate departments and entities on their budgets, targets and priorities for the year ahead and finalise their ensuing reports to the House. There is a common trend during...

COVID-19 STATE OF DISASTER A ministerial directive gazetted on 23 April has confirmed that, subject to adherence to all related protocols: school contact sport activities are now permitted ‘inter-school, district, provincial and national school sports...