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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Mandate, Function and Powers of Committee: briefing; Committee Programme
23 Sep 2016
The Committee expressed concern at the absence of the Secretary to Parliament, as an accounting officer, from the meeting to discuss its mandate, functions and powers. This would prevent them from seeking guidance and clarification on the issues involved. Several Members called for the meeting to be postponed, but after ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Questions to the Executive, Motions without Notice, Declarations of vote
6 Sep 2016
The Secretary to the National Assembly briefed Members on Motion without Notice, and highlighted that new Rule 123 was devised to manage the challenges experienced with motions without notice in the House. The rule stated that before a motion can be moved, five political parties including the ANC, DA and ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules Subcommittee Report on Rule 53A Physical removal of Members, Deputy Speaker ruling on quoting of judgments amended, Committee Report on Review of Rules
24 May 2016
The Chairperson of the Subcommittee dealing with the revision of the National Assembly Rules (the Rules) took the Committee through the changes that had been made to Rule 53A since the last Rules Committee meeting. Essentially, a new subrule 14 had been inserted, which in terms drew the distinction between ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Constitutional Court Nkandla judgment implications for NA Rules, Amendment of Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Act, Portfolio Committee for Presidency Budget Vote request; Review of Rules Subcommittee Report
17 May 2016
The Rules Committee decided, after discussion, that the consideration of the circumstances when Members could be removed under rule 53A should be done by the Subcommittee on the Review of the rules of the NA.
Mr J Steenhuizen (DA) had raised the principles behind a ruling by the Deputy Speaker ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Election of Co-Chairpersons
5 May 2016
The Chairpersons for both the National Assembly (NA) and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) component of the new Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament were elected.
Rules of the National Assembly
Review of National Assembly Rules: consideration of Subcommittee Report
20 Nov 2015
The Rules Committee met to consider the Subcommittee Report on the Review of the National Assembly Rules. The ANC supported the proposed new criteria for the processing of motions without notice. The criteria were now that at least five parties including the majority party and the largest minority party should ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Progress Report on Review of Parliament Rules: report back by sub-committee
4 Feb 2015
The chairperson of the subcommittee that had been considering the revised Rules of the National Assembly (the Rules) gave a progress report of the Rules review, informing the full Committee of areas of disagreement and areas where new and substantive changes were being proposed. He outlined the proposals for several ...