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BILLS SIGNED INTO LAW   The Presidency issued media statements announcing that four new Acts have joined the statute books: the Electoral Matters Amendment Act: aligning various statutes with provisions in the Electoral Law Amendment Act, 2023,...

After a dizzying and tumultuous five years, Parliament will rise this week ahead of the 2024 National and Provincial elections. Both Houses have scheduled plenary sittings on Thursday, where the main aim is to approve legislation. In the National...

After a dizzying and tumultuous five years, Parliament will rise this week ahead of the 2024 National and Provincial elections. Both Houses have scheduled plenary sittings on Thursday, where the main aim is to approve legislation. In the National...

LABOUR COURT AND LABOUR APPEAL COURT RULES The Office of the Chief Justice gazetted new rules to regulate the conduct of proceedings in the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court. Published as addenda to minutes of a 20 November 2023 meeting of the...

The National Assembly Programming Committee convened last Friday and scheduled two hybrid sittings for the lower house on 9 and 16 May 2024. Officially, this is still a constituency period for the National Assembly, but these sittings have been...

There's a lull in Parliament as the legislature makes the most of the mid-week public holiday. The National Council of Provinces has only scheduled six committee meetings and no plenary sittings. Meanwhile, NA lawmakers are still occupied with...

ROAD ACCIDENT FUND   Legislative amendments to the Road Accident Fund Act, 1996, are ‘at an advanced stage’, according to a belated media statement on Cabinet’s ‘special’ 10 April 2024 meeting. To be ‘considered by the seventh administration of...

CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION The Department of Home Affairs gazetted a White Paper as the next step in a ‘complete overhaul’ of South Africa’s ‘migration system’. Its purpose is to provide a policy framework for addressing...

The NCOP will get an opportunity to dent the legislative load on Thursday as the main chamber is provisionally scheduled to consider eight bills: Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill; Climate Change Bill; Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill;...

IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS The Department of Home Affairs gazetted a notice withdrawing amendments to the immigration regulations published on 28 March 2024. According to the notice, a revised version will be gazetted ‘in due course’.   COMMUNICATIONS...