After a low key week, the main chambers have scheduled a broad and busy programme, which includes oral questions to the executive; ministerial and members’ statements, policy debates, and the processing of assorted bills, statutory instruments and committee reports.
In the National Assembly, the main plenary event will be the ...
There's a humdrum flavour to this week's parliamentary business in the National Assembly chamber - with MPs finishing off legislation, processing assorted statutory instruments and reports, making statements and discussing matters of public importance.
The major highlight will be the question session involving the Deputy President and Ministers in the ...
There's both high policy and low politics on display in the main chambers this week. The National Assembly offers a blend of members' statements, a discussion of national importance, legislative business and oral questions to the Deputy President and Peace and Security Cluster. The programme is a bit more pedestrian ...
This week the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Portfolio Committee tackled the contentious issue of municipal debt owed to Eskom and water boards. National Treasury was present on Tuesday, 12 May 2015, to defend its decision to withhold Equitable Share (ES) from municipalities that have not prioritised paying their ...
Since early March, portfolio committees have been meeting with departments and entities to process their budget votes and prepare reports.
The focus now shifts to the budget vote debates that commence tomorrow and run until the end of the month. These debates will happen in the Extended Public Committees (EPCs), ...
By Rofhiwa Maneta
In January last year, six year old Micheal Komape lost his life when he fell into a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School in Limpopo. Fast forward five months later and protesters in Diepkloof, Soweto were flashing their buttocks at passing motorists in protest of the bucket ...
According to the Department of Water and Sanitation, there are still 2.2 million households across South Africa that are using pit latrines and septic tanks or have no sanitation facilities at all. This is especially prevalent in rural or informal settlements. Although, the use of the bucket toilet system is ...
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting Of Parliament Cape Town,
The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and ...
By Ndimphiwe Gilili
Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Pam Tshwete visited six schools in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 January. The visits were part of her constituency work, which is intended to bring parliamentarians closer to communities that they serve. Tshwete, who is responsible for ...
By Sheilan Clarke
Gauteng and the Western Cape are the top performing provinces in terms of the number of municipalities getting clean audits, while KwaZulu Natal has significantly improved since last year. This is according to Minister of Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Pravin Gordhan. He was speaking at a ...