In a briefing to the Police Portfolio Committee last week, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) highlighted that almost without exception, relatively rich, predominantly white areas with very low contact crime rates, had far more police officers for every 100 000 people than poor, predominantly black areas with high contact crime ...
SA's national budget was tabled in Parliament on 21 February 2018 - what follows this process is the tabling of provincial budgets to each of the nine provincial legislatures. Provincial budgets are as important as the national one - the budget sets out how the provinces intend spending public funds ...
President Ramaphosa has finally announced his much anticipated Cabinet reshuffle on Monday night, 27 March 2018. While come changes have been widely applauded: Nhlanhla Nene back as Finance Minister and Pravin Gordhan in Public Enterprises; others such as Bathabile Dlamini as Minister in the Presidency for Women produced an outcry ...
The State of the Province Address is a localised version of the State of the Nation Address where Premiers reflect on their achievements and communicate their programmes of action in respect of government’s five priority areas - education, health, the fight against crime and corruption, rural development and land reform ...
Members of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Transport voiced their dissatisfaction with PRASA's inability to deal with Cape Town’s rail crisis on Tuesday, 13 February 2018. With the Deputy Minister of Transport in attendance, the Committee received briefings from #UniteBehind, PRASA, Metrorail, the Railway Safety Regulator and the United Commuters Voice ...
Every February the Minister of Finance presents his budget speech in Parliament for the upcoming fiscal year.
This is not the final budget but a proposal that has to be scrutinised and approved by Parliament.
What is in the budget and why should I care?
The budget presents an overall ...
The first term of Parliament (23 January to 29 March 2018) will see the first major event of the year, the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Zuma on 11 February 2018. President Zuma will deliver the speech, who many speculate may be for the final time, ...
The conclusion of the parliamentary calendar year sees the Fifth Parliament shut its doors for 2017 after what has surely been one of the most tumultuous political years. People's Assembly takes a look at what happened behind the scenes in the halls of the Legislature with this snapshot of the ...
Many South Africans do not know who their MPs are, or that there could be an MP or MPL assigned to their area to act as their representative. People's Assembly has put together an infographic that explains what your representative can do for you and how you can connect with ...
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) presented its 2016/17 annual report to the Select Committee on Social Services on Wednesday, 21 November 2017. In its report, the Agency provided a status report on beneficiaries of social assistance, social assistance trends per province, as well as child grant beneficiaries.
The ...