How much do you really know about the South Africa Local Government Association (SALGA)? If their social media platforms are anything to go by - the @SALGA_Gov Twitter account only has 375 followers and they have just 415 likes on their Facebook page - the public need to be better ...
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defence, Sam Gulube, told Members of the Defence and Military Veterans Portfolio Committee that the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has a budget shortfall of R1.1 billion for employee’s salaries.
While a freeze on hiring, large-scale retrenchments and compulsory early retirement were being considered as a ...
In both the Transport Portfolio Committee meeting on Tuesday and an Economic and Business Development Select Committee briefing on Wednesday, the Department of Transport told MPs that the cost of repairing South Africa’s roads is estimated to be R149 billion.
Acting Director-General of the Transport Department, Mawethu Vilana, said the ...
The Select Committee on Appropriations met yesterday to receive presentations from the Committee support staff on what duties NCOP MPs are expected to carry out over their term, and how the support staff will assist them. MPs were also briefed on the budget cycle, which brought up a few concerns ...
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 ...
Amid the budget vote presentations, the Fifth Parliament’s first deliberations on actual legislation kicked off today when the Standing Committee on Finance was briefed by National Treasury on the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Amendment Bill. The DBSA Bill was actually tabled in the last Parliament prior to the ...
With the deadline for the completion of Budget Vote Reports set for this Friday (11 July), Committees are in a race to finalise and adopt their reports ahead of the budget vote debates, which are scheduled to start next week.
As a result of the compressed calendar, People’s Assembly has ...
On Tuesday, 1 July 2014, the Communications Portfolio Committee joined with the Telecommunications and Postal Services Portfolio Committee to hear the Department of Communications’ (DoC) and GCIS’ Strategic Plans, budgets and Annual Performance Plans for 2014. The mood in the committee room was tense with opposition MPs complaining that they ...
Yesterday during a Department’s budget briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform (RDLR), firebrand EFF MP Andile Mngxitama offered the RDLR Minister, Gugile Nkwinti, the EFF’s vote in order to get a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation. The Minister politely ...
Last week Wednesday, 25 June 2014, during the discussion of the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform’s committee programme, a robust debate was held between ANC MPs and opposition MPs about whether or not farm worker evictions should be put on the agenda as a matter of urgency. ...