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Finance Standing Committee
Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals: public hearings
4 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Finance and the Select Committee on Finance held a joint meeting to hear public comment by various institutions and labour federations on the Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals.
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) commended the Finance Minister and his National Treasury team for ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Department of Trade and Industry on Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programme
25 Feb 2015
The Department of Trade Industry (DTI) briefed the Committee on the Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programme (MCEP), focusing on the purpose of the programme, the application process and adjudication of applications, and the challenges.
The MCEP was a response to the global economic crisis, which had severely restricted the export market ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Review of Space Affairs Act: briefing by South African Council for Space Affairs
24 Feb 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) had embarked on a process to review the current legislative and regulatory prescripts governing space activities in South Africa. The review was motivated inter alia, by the developments in the national space arena since the enactment of the Act, which influenced changes on ...
Finance Standing Committee
Auditing Profession Amendment Bill: adoption
24 Feb 2015
Voting on the Bill had originally been scheduled for 18 February 2015, but the Chairperson decided that voting had to be deferred on that date, as a submission by the South African Institute for Professional Auditors (SAIPA) had not yet been responded to. A meeting between the Independent Regulatory board ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules of the National Assembly: Chapters 1 to 9 preliminary review: Sub-committee report, debate on dress code and secret ballots
27 Jan 2015
The subcommittee considering the review of the Rules of the National Assembly (the Rules) continued with its work on chapters 1 to 9. The Committee's draft Report set out the preliminary positions, and in some cases set out options that the full Rules Committee would take a decision on which ...
Rules of the National Assembly
National Assembly Rules review: Subcommittee deliberations
20 Jan 2015
The Committee met briefly to review the new draft of the National Assembly Rules. The Chairperson outlined the procedure and made it clear, several times, that it was not this sub-Committee who would be making the final decision on the Rules of the NA; instead, individual members of this sub-committee ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Overview of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Policy and Codes of Good Practices
11 Nov 2014
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Committee on Trade and Industry on the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Amendment Bill, focussing on the Code of Good Practices, the establishment of the BBBEE Commission, the alignment of Sector Charters and the way forward.
The Act had been amended to ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Suspension of National Gambling Board: briefing by Minister
6 Nov 2014
The Minister of Trade and Industry, briefed the Committee regarding the suspension of National Gambling Board (NGB) members. The suspension of the NGB had come immediately after allegations of maladministration, wasteful expenditure and corrupt activities had been reported by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) in the NGB’s recently tabled 2013/14 ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation Laws Amendment Bill: deliberations; Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill; Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill: deliberations & voting
5 Nov 2014
The Standing Committee on Finance considered and adopted the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for National Treasury.
Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill
Members said that the Bill was difficult to comprehend and there was frequent cross referencing in it. National Treasury agreed and said ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Parliament of Republic of South Africa vs Hon F Shivambu and 19 others
20 Oct 2014
Report of the meeting to follow