Mr Manuel Simão Franca De Freitas

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Manuel Simão Franca De Freitas

About Manuel Simão Franca De Freitas

Committee Meetings Attended

  • Transport Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: public hearings day 4
    30 May 2018

    Documents handed out:
    Western Cape Government: Department of Transport submission [awaited]
    Association for Protection of Road Accident Victims (APRAV) submission [awaited]
    Risk House Africa Actuaries submission [awaited]
    Indwe Risk Services submission [awaited]

    The Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) gave an overview of the RAF and RABS dispensations. It would be risky introducing ...

  • Transport Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 3
    23 May 2018

    The Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) said that the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill should be a balancing act between fair compensation and the affordability of the scheme in terms of available resources. Participating in the Portfolio Committee on Transport’s public hearings on the Bill, the LSNP ...

  • Transport Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 2
    22 May 2018

    The Black Lawyers’ Association (BLA) accepted that changes should be made to the Road Accident Fund (RAF), but did not agree with all the changes in the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS). RABS was said to be unreasonable because it did not award general damages to victims of road accidents. ...

  • Transport Department of Transport budget: Committee Report
    8 May 2018

    The Content adviser briefed the Committee on observations and recommendations contained in the Annual Performance Plan. Those were related to non-adherence of targets to SMART principles; board vacancies in entities; implementation of road safety programmes; plans for legislation submitted in the outer years of the Medium Term Strategic Framework; the ...

  • Transport Department of Transport, ACSA, ATNS, SACAA, SANRAL, SAMSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
    19 Apr 2018

    Five entities from the Department of Transport briefed the Committee on their annual performance plans, budgets and strategic plans. The entities were the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA), Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) ...

  • Transport Department of Transport, RAF, RTMC, RTIA, C-BRTA, Ports Regulator 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
    18 Apr 2018

    The Road Accident Fund (RAF), the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA), the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency (C-BRTA) and the Ports Regulator of South Africa briefed the Committee on their 2018/19 APPs, budgets and strategic plans.

    The RAF said it was challenged by two main ...

  • Transport Department of Transport, PRASA and RSR 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister and Deputy Minister
    17 Apr 2018

    The Portfolio Committee on Transport met with the Transport ministry, the Department of Transport (DoT) and teams from two DoT entities, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Railway Safety regulator to deal with their Annual Performance Plans (APPs)..

    The Minister gave an overview of DoT’s alignment with ...

  • Transport National Land Transport Amendment Bill: Adoption
    20 Mar 2018

    The Portfolio Committee on Transport met to receive the proposed amendments to the National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7-2016] from the Parliamentary Legal Adviser (PLA), the State Legal Adviser (SLA) and the Department of Transport (DoT). The proposed amendment was to redraft specific clauses in the Bill in a way ...

  • Transport National Land Transport A/Bill: e-hailing operators; SANRAL ‘e-Toll’ A/Bill; PRASA Inquiry prep
    13 Mar 2018

    Documents awaited: Committee Report on Northern Cape oversight visit; PRASA Inquiry terms of reference

    The Committee expressed concern that the Acting Director General was not available for the fifth consecutive meeting on e-hailing transport services in the National Land Transport Amendment Bill. This had delayed the processing of the Bill. ...

  • Transport National Land Transport Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
    6 Mar 2018

    In the previous meeting, the Committee had agreed to the proposed amendments but still had concerns about clauses 38 and 48 which affected Uber, Taxify and taxi operators.

    The Committee was of the opinion that it could not allow clauses 38 and 48 to be passed because they would make ...