With the sharp rise in the number of rhinos being poached and killed in the past few years, South Africans will be pleased that Parliament is doing its part to address the situation. The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs has organised public hearings in three provinces (the KZN hearings were ...
Parliament’s plenary sittings will be under scrutiny this week (and probably for the next while) following last Thursday’s dramatic and unprecedented events in the National Assembly. The House had to be suspended when the EFF disrupted proceedings and heckled the President. Chaos ensued after the EFF had demanded to know ...
When the Public Service Commission (PSC) made their presentation to the Standing Committee on Appropriations, an interesting point was raised. Key departments, those which have been allocated the largest budgets, have not been meeting their targeted outputs for the latest year (2012/13). This raises important questions about the allocation of ...
With all the Portfolio Committees meeting the deadline to finalise their Budget Vote Reports by last Friday (and some already published in the Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports (ATC)), the focus now shifts to the budget vote debates that will commence tomorrow (Tuesday, 15 July 2014) and run for ...
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defence, Sam Gulube, told Members of the Defence and Military Veterans Portfolio Committee that the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has a budget shortfall of R1.1 billion for employee’s salaries.
While a freeze on hiring, large-scale retrenchments and compulsory early retirement were being considered as a ...