The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Health on the performance outcomes of the Department of Health against the objectives of the 2030 National Development Plan on 17 April 2018. According to DPME, empirical evidence suggests that on the whole, the health status of ...

Parliament has learnt that SAA needs another R4.8 bn bailout immediately after the recent R10bn bailout received in December 2017. Read the article below, and have your say and People's Assembly will send your response to the relevant Parliamentary committees.

The legislature’s budget vote season shows no sign of slowing down. The schedule is packed with meetings as Committees continue to interrogate departments and entities on their budgets and priorities for the year ahead. With the deadline for the completion of Budget Vote Reports fast approaching, Committees are in a ...

Parliament returns from recess this week. The second term will run for 9-11 weeks and will be packed with activities. Some of the highlights include committee, oversight and legislative work; oral questions to the Executive; NCOP Local Government and Oversight Weeks and passing of the national budget.

In addition, the ...

With the first parliamentary term wrapped up, we take a look at legislative activity from this period. This quarterly review takes a quick look at the number of working days, Bills processed, written questions posed by Members and replied to by the Executive and petitions considered by Committees from 23 ...

The constituency period beckons, with MPs due to depart at the end of the week and return to Parliament on 17 April 2018.

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

In the National Assembly Chamber, ...

In a briefing to the Police Portfolio Committee last week, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) highlighted that almost without exception, relatively rich, predominantly white areas with very low contact crime rates, had far more police officers for every 100 000 people than poor, predominantly black areas with high contact crime ...

In comparison to recent weeks, there's a slight lull in Parliament as the legislature makes the most of the mid-week public holiday. The National Assembly has only set aside one day for parliamentary business in the main chamber. Elsewhere, the NCOP will have no plenary sittings as delegates will be ...

Parliament's Multi-Party Women's Caucus held a summit in March on the legalisation of sex work in SA. This was in response to the SALRC Report that recommended either continued criminalisation or partial criminalisation (criminalises all role-players, except the person providing the sexual service).

Advocates of decriminalisation said the State must ...

Today, Wednesday 14 March 2018, at 15h00, the National Assembly meets with one item on its agenda - questions for oral reply by the President. This is President Ramaphosa's first question and answer session. This is a standing item on the agenda of the National Assembly and the President once ...