It's a low key week in the main chambers with no sittings scheduled. All the parliamentary action will take place in the committee corridor where the schedule is bursting.
The legislature’s budget vote season shows no sign of slowing down as most days are packed with long meetings as committees ...
Parliament has scheduled a broad and busy programme in the main chambers as well as in the committee corridor.
The President’s oral question session in the NCOP (on Thursday) is the main plenary event. His responses to questions on the recent xenophobic attacks and the Report on Farlam Commission of ...
With no sittings scheduled in the main chambers, the committee corridor will be the main source of parliamentary action this week.
MPs will spend a considerable time meeting with various departments and entities on their strategic plans, annual performance plans and budgets.
In between, there's some detailed legislating as MPs ...
We forecasted last week that the divisions between the ruling party and most opposition parties were set to widen in Parliament. What we did not anticipate was how quickly and devastatingly matters would escalate, resulting in the shameful scenes witnessed last Thursday when the public order policing unit entered the ...
In his Police Budget Vote address in Parliament on Monday, Minister of Police Nkosinathi Nhleko, said that policing cannot exist without community support and participation, and that policing needs to continue to be subjected to public scrutiny to keep them accountable.
“The NDP [National Development Plan] envisions a state with ...
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 ...
The Fifth Parliament opens on 21 May 2014 and People’s Assembly decided to catch up with out-going MP and former chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Annelize van Wyk.
Asked why she’s not returning to Parliament, van Wyk answered with a short and simple “Because I was too low ...
In front of a committee meeting packed with members of the public, think tanks, NGOs and the media on Wednesday, the Portfolio Committee on Police voted 7-3 in support of Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s controversial nomination of former Ekhuruleni Metro Police Chief Robert Robert McBride to head up the Independent ...
People's Assembly (PA) notes that African Christian Democratic Party leader Reverend Kenneth Meshoe is back in the big house this year. After a six month leave of absence from Parliament, Meshoe was spotted attending the Police Portfolio Committee's first meeting of 2014, on Tuesday 28 November.
When asked why he ...