That week in Parliament

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...