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  It’s one of the most important speeches that the President delivers in any year. With a prime-time TV audience, it is a tremendous PR opportunity for the President to lay out his agenda for the year and report on his administration’s progress....

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE   During an address to participants in a policy dialogue on universal health coverage in South Africa, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the NHI ‘administration and ... associated governance structures’ will be established ‘in...

It’s been another eventful parliamentary year. It’s impossible to summarise all the main highlights but we have tried to do so in this review: Cabinet reshuffle After months of speculation, President Ramaphosa announced his reconfigured Cabinet on 6...

ONE-STOP BORDER POST BILL The Department of Home Affairs gazetted an explanatory summary of the One-Stop Border Post Bill, a draft of which was released in April 2023 for public comment. Approved by Cabinet during a meeting on 29 November 2023,...

LAND REFORM Possibly with the intention of extending the deadline by another week, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development re-gazetted its 17 November 2023 notice calling for public comments on draft regulations under the...

It’s a week of farewells and loose ends… The constituency and leave period beckons, with MPs due to depart this week and return to Parliament next year. But a fair amount of work will be done before they go. The final week is ending on a dramatic...

There is a bit of frenzy in Parliament as legislation and important business that can be completed are rushed to the finishing line while other less urgent parliamentary business is dropped for lack of time. There is a minor parliamentary rarity...

LAND TENURE RIGHTS The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development called for public comments on draft regulations under the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act, 1991. Once in force, they will: set out the procedures to be followed...

Parliament has scheduled a broad and busy programme in the main chambers. In the National Assembly, Tuesday’s vote on the EFF’s motion to close the Israeli Embassy in South Africa and suspend all diplomatic relations with Israel is a main point of...

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY A parliamentary news report quoted Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi as having confirmed that a revised set of draft regulations is being prepared to give effect to the Employment Equity Amendment Act, 2022. The revised...