That week in Parliament

Does the President take too long to sign a bill into law? The ACDP’s Steve Swart seems to think so. In a recent National Assembly Programming Committee (NAPC) meeting he requested a list of legislation not yet signed by the President and pointed out...

 

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's budget speech on Wednesday will dominate headlines this week. The Minister has a tough job to do as he seeks to address significant social challenges, satisfy public pressure and reassure investors and ratings agencies....

The first recorded use of the phrase "consequence management" in Parliament was in 2010. The phrase was not recorded at all in 2011, but in 2012 there was another single use. “Consequence management” featured 17 times in 2013 and 29 times in 2014....

It’s taken a few weeks but Parliament is finally firing on all cylinders with plenty of action beckoning in both the main chamber and the Committee corridor. The main events will be the joint debate on the State of the Nation...

   

The 2020 State of the Nation (SONA) is just hours away. See some interesting facts on SONAs in South Africa as well as how the occasion is carried out in other parts of the world:  

On Thursday, all eyes will be fixated on Parliament for the State of the Nation Address (SONA). The speech, due to be delivered at 19:00 before a combined gathering of Parliament, the Judiciary and the public, will be a report on the economic and...