Even with a public holiday to compress the parliamentary week, there is a fair bit of action scheduled into the available three days (Parliament is sitting from Tuesday to Thursday).

In the NA chamber, the most significant event will be the appearance by the Deputy President to answer oral ...

There are four more weeks left in this term and the programme has a familiar pattern: it includes oral questions to the Executive, Members’ statements, policy debates, Committee oversight and scrutiny and processing of assorted Bills, statutory appointments and Committee reports.

There is a minor parliamentary rarity on Tuesday: ...

Parliament has scheduled a broad and busy programme in the main chambers as well as in the committee corridor.

The main plenary event will be the debate on the Presidency's budget vote scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. In their speeches, the Presidency (this includes the President, Deputy President and Ministers ...

The 2016 South Africa Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS 2016) is the third survey to be conducted in South Africa with Statistics South Africa collaborating with the worldwide Demographic and Health Survey Program. Teenage mothers are more likely to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, and find it more difficult to pursue ...

It’s the second of week of budget debates in the National Assembly and the frenetic pace of committee meetings and mini-plenary sessions continue.

On Tuesday, the Ministers of Trade and Industry, Police and Finance will take to the podium to present their budgets. Their colleagues in the Basic Education ...

Committees have been meeting for two weeks with departments and their entities to pore over their strategic and annual performance plans, budgets and performance targets in preparation for reports to be considered by the House. The focus now shifts to the House budget vote debates that commence tomorrow, 16 May ...

For the past two weeks, Committees have been meeting with Departments and Entities to pore over their strategic and annual performance plans, budgets and performance targets in preparation for reports to be considered by the House.

The focus now shifts to the budget vote debates that commence tomorrow and run ...

President Zuma’s reshuffle of 20 ministers and deputy ministers on 30 March at midnight took place just as Parliament went into a month long recess.

Parliament returned on 2 May and, with all these new appointments eager to make their mark, it will be interesting to see how they perform. ...

It's raining reports: with the deadline for the completion of Budget Vote Reports fast approaching, committees are in a race to finalise their reports ahead of the budget vote debates, which are scheduled to start next week.

As a result, the schedule shows no sign of slowing down as most ...

In practice, public participation in the legislature is often diluted, haphazard and falls short of its intended purpose. In fact, the President, civil society and the courts have had to remind the legislature about its duty to facilitate adequate public participation.

This report reviews public participation based on survey responses ...