President Jacob Zuma, tonight you will present the State of the Nation Address (SoNA) to a joint sitting of Parliament. Below are some questions we wish to pose to you.
Honorable President Zuma, you told us this time last year that government’s monitoring and evaluation efforts indicate “an improvement in ...
Organ donation came under the spotlight in Parliament this week, when the Portfolio Committee on Health heard a presentation by the family of Jenna Lowe; a young girl in desperate need of a life-saving lung transplant. The presentation highlighted the current state of South African organ donation, arguing that more ...
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement Speech 2014
By Minister of Finance, Nhlanhla Nene
Honourable Speaker Mister President Deputy President Cabinet Colleagues and Deputy Ministers Governor and Governor-Designate of the Reserve Bank MECs of Finance Honourable Members Fellow South Africans
It is my privilege to present the 2014 Medium Term Budget ...
With the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 deadline looming, the Community Law Centre (University of the Western Cape) briefed the Health Portfolio Committee last Wednesday, 15 October 2014, on South Africa’s current situation regarding maternal deaths due to pregnancy and childbirth complications. The MDGs were set at the 2000 Millennium ...
With the sharp rise in the number of rhinos being poached and killed in the past few years, South Africans will be pleased that Parliament is doing its part to address the situation. The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs has organised public hearings in three provinces (the KZN hearings were ...
Children featured in both the Budget Vote 15: Basic Education yesterday, and Vote 19: Social Development today. Peoples Assembly took at look at what MPs said about their rights and the services young people were receiving.
Yesterday, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga reported that her Department’s overall budget for 2014/15 ...
With all the Portfolio Committees meeting the deadline to finalise their Budget Vote Reports by last Friday (and some already published in the Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports (ATC)), the focus now shifts to the budget vote debates that will commence tomorrow (Tuesday, 15 July 2014) and run for ...
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) this week presented its strategic plan in Parliament for the year 2014/15. Among other things, there was an emphasis on the state of miner health and safety in South Africa's mines, and the Department's Mine Health and Safety Programme which seeks to improve the ...
Yesterday in Parliament, Minister for Mineral Resources, Ngoako Ramatholdi, in his brief introduction to his Department’s briefing, told the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources that miners’ “health and safety is a priority”. He added that a Mine Health and Safety Summit hosted by his Department and others was being planned ...
President Jacob Zuma delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in the National Assembly on Tuesday evening, 17 June 2014. People’s Assembly has already reported on the main themes of the Presidents speech including commentary from opposition MPs. A lot has been written about Zuma’s comments on the economy ...