Following the parliamentary committee hearings on the 2023/24 priorities, targets and spending plans of departments, the focus shifts to the budget vote debates which commence this week and run until 1 June 2023.

These debates happen in the mini-plenary sittings of the National Assembly and are headlined by Ministers, their ...

An eclectic week of parliamentary action beckons in the main chambers and Committee Corridor.

A combination of Question Time sessions, debates, budget-related work, legislative business, and a few high-profile Committee meetings should mean plenty of fizz.

The practice of oral questions is an established part of the parliamentary day and ...

Parliament is taking full advantage of the public holiday.

It is largely a low-key week with NA MPs on leave, no house sittings, and only a handful of meetings scheduled.

A major highlight is the Rules Committee meeting that will focus on the State Capture Commission recommendations as well as ...

Parliament resumes this week after a constituency period.

According to the latest timetable, the NA programme will run for 8 weeks and the NCOP for 10 weeks.

Some of the highlights include committee, oversight, and legislative work; oral questions to the Executive; section 194 Public Protector Inquiry; important debates and ...

The constituency period beckons, with MPs due to sign off at the end of the week and return on 18 April 2023.

There is no opportunity to go through the motions as a fair amount of heavy-duty business will be done before they go.

The main point of interest is ...

Even with a public holiday to compress the parliamentary week, there is a fair bit of action packed into the available three days.

In the NA chamber, the main event – scheduled for Wednesday - is the proposed resolution to remove the Speaker from office. She was the subject of ...

There's a broad and busy flavour to this week's parliamentary business.

In the National Assembly chamber, the week opens with a focus on legislation and statutory appointments during Tuesday’s sitting. Lawmakers are set to pass the Housing Consumer Protection Bill and Prevention of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, as ...

The President's oral questions, answers questions of national or international importance once per term in accordance with the annual parliamentary programme. The questions are sifted and published beforehand to ensure that only those satisfying the set criteria are put to the President. Four supplementary questions, arising from the reply to ...

There are several parliamentary mechanisms for achieving government accountability, one of which is the asking of oral questions in the House.

Question Time is used to ask a member of the executive about matters of concern relating to government policy and activities in their portfolio. Many of the questions touch ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget Speech on Wednesday, 22 February will dominate headlines this week.

The Budget presents an overall synopsis of the state of the country’s finances, amendments to tax, distribution of revenue across spheres of government and distribution of expenditure across national departments. It serves as a practical ...