That week in Parliament

Parliament resumes this week after a constituency period. The hybrid Parliament will continue for another term, with some MPs working from the precinct and others remotely. The final term will run for eight weeks, and the programme is packed with...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT The Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs has released a draft councillors’ code of conduct for public comment. Among other things, it: requires every councillor to ‘settle his or her municipal account for...

Parliamentary Committees will be reviewing the annual reports of government departments and entities from 11-21 October 2022. Annual reports allow Parliament to evaluate the performance of a Department and entity after the end of the financial year.  ...

INTERIM PROTECTION OF INFORMAL LAND RIGHTS ACT The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has gazetted a notice extending the application of the Act’s provisions until 31 December 2023. This is noting that the term ‘informal land...

POWER PROCUREMENT Eskom has issued a media statement announcing three new programmes that: ‘initially … will focus on generators capable of supplying more than one megawatt to the grid’, and noting that ‘over time the threshold will be lowered to...

The constituency period beckons, with MPs in the National Assembly due to depart on Friday and return to Parliament on 11 October 2022. NCOP delegates have a two-week constituency period, which starts today. There is no opportunity to go through the...

RENEWABLE ENERGY Government Communications has issued a media statement providing: background information on recent amendments to the April 2022 request for proposals from independent power producers for Bid Window 6, and insights into the processes...

It’s the final week of the parliamentary term for National Council of Provinces (NCOP) delegates. Meanwhile, National Assembly (NA) MPs will sit for a further week and commence their constituency break on 3 October 2022. There is a mixture of routine...

Parliament’s role in respect of municipalities Local government is represented in Parliament, in the National Council of the Provinces (NCOP), and other important institutions like the Financial and Fiscal Commission and the Budget Council. In...