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NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Negotiating Mandates; Second Adjustments Appropriation (2023/24 FY) Bill & Gold and Foreign Exchange Contingency Reserve Account Defrayal A/B: Committee Reports
24 Apr 2024
The Committee met on a virtual platform to consider and adopt the negotiating mandates of the provinces for the 2024 Division of Revenue Bill. All provinces supported the Bill except the Western Cape. Limpopo did not have its mandate ready in time.
National Treasury provided some initial responses to ...
NCOP Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure
Railway Safety Bill: Negotiating Mandates
24 Apr 2024
The Committee met virtually to receive responses from the Parliamentary Legal Services on the matrix the Department of Transport provided on the Railway Safety Bill. The Committee also considered the negotiating mandates of each province, all of which voted in favour of the Bill.
The parliamentary legal advisor referred ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Committee Legacy Report
23 Apr 2024
The Committee convened virtually for its last meeting to consider and adopt its Legacy Report. The Content Advisor provided a summarised version of the 63-page document. Highlights included the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP) and the Select Committee paid attention to the alignment of the Jobs Fund and how ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: Civil Society concerns & constitutional matters
23 Apr 2024
Select Committee on Finance Response to Civil Society (awaited document)
The Select Committee on Finance deliberated on the concerns raised by civil society organisations about the constitutionality of the Public Procurement Bill and National Treasury’s (NT) responses to public submissions on the Bill.
First, civil society asserted that not ...
NCOP Finance
Pension Funds Amendment Bill: adoption
19 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance considered and adopted the Pension Funds Amendment (PFA) Bill and the accompanying Committee Report.
The objective of the Bill is to amend the Pension Funds Act (PFA), of 1956, the Post and Telecommunications Related Matters Act (PTRMA), of 1958, the Transnet Pension Fund Act (TPFA), of ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: Treasury report-back on stakeholder consultation
17 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance (NCOP) convened in a virtual meeting to hear National Treasury’s response to submissions from engagement with stakeholders on the Public Procurement Bill. National Treasury highlighted the key issues that needed to be shared with the Committee.
The Joint Strategic Resource (JSR) had submitted that ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill: Final Mandates
16 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Trade and Industry, Economic Development, Small Business Development, Tourism, Employment and Labour Trade and Industry, Economic Development, Small Business Development, Tourism, Employment and Labour (the Committee) convened virtually to consider and adopt the Final Provincial Mandates on the National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill as well ...
NCOP Finance
Pension Funds Amendment Bill: public hearings
16 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance convened a public hearing on the Pension Fund Amendment Bill in a virtual meeting. The two-pot pension reform is to be introduced on 1 September 2024 through the recent amendments made to the Income Tax Act by the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill of 2023. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Salga & PBO input
27 Mar 2024
The Select Committee received briefings in a virtual meeting from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the 2024 Division of Revenue Bill.
One of the main concerns raised by SALGA was that the local government sphere was underfunded, and was able to ...
NCOP Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure
Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) A/B: WWF Submission & Department response to public submissions; Luxembourg Protocol on Railway Rolling Stock
27 Mar 2024
The Select Committee convened virtually to consider written submissions from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on the Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment Bill and the responses from the Department of Transport to the submissions received.
The WWF's main focus was on issues of anthropogenic greenhouse gas ...