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Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: National Treasury concerns
14 Aug 2018
National Treasury came before the Committee to comment on the RABS Bill. The Bill is the largest social security reform since the introduction of social grants; thus, there are concerns about its financial sustainability and viability. The Bill has large financial implications for both the fiscus and society. The Road ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: Department response to submissions
6 Jun 2018
The Department presented some background on the Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill, and indicated that as the result of the Satchwell Commission, the following recommendations had been made:
Transport
PRASA Interim Board on challenges; ACSA & ATNS Amendment Bills: briefing
5 Jun 2018
The new PRASA Interim Board appointed on 13 April 2018 consisted of Khanyisile Kweyama (board chairperson), Sango Ntsaluba, Louis Wessie, Jenny Schreiner, Nazir Alli, Doris Tshepe, and Mashila Matlala.
The Committee heard that staff morale had already been identified as amongst the biggest challenges and top of the board’s agenda ...
Transport
Minister on vacancies in DoT Boards; DoT Quarter 4 Performance
5 Jun 2018
The Minister of Transport said that when he was appointed Minister most of the board terms of DoT entities were about to expire, whilst others did not have their full board complement. This was bad because the Ministry had to do everything all at the same time; but perhaps it ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: public hearings day 4
30 May 2018
Documents handed out:
Western Cape Government: Department of Transport submission [awaited]
Association for Protection of Road Accident Victims (APRAV) submission [awaited]
Risk House Africa Actuaries submission [awaited]
Indwe Risk Services submission [awaited]
The Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) gave an overview of the RAF and RABS dispensations. It would be risky introducing ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 3
23 May 2018
The Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) said that the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill should be a balancing act between fair compensation and the affordability of the scheme in terms of available resources. Participating in the Portfolio Committee on Transport’s public hearings on the Bill, the LSNP ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 2
22 May 2018
The Black Lawyers’ Association (BLA) accepted that changes should be made to the Road Accident Fund (RAF), but did not agree with all the changes in the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS). RABS was said to be unreasonable because it did not award general damages to victims of road accidents. ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 1
16 May 2018
The Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill was subjected to considerable criticism from representatives of the legal and medical professions during public hearings conducted by the Portfolio Committee on Transport, with some suggestions that it was inferior to the Road Accident Fund (RAF) scheme it was supposed to replace.
The ...
Transport
Department of Transport budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Content adviser briefed the Committee on observations and recommendations contained in the Annual Performance Plan. Those were related to non-adherence of targets to SMART principles; board vacancies in entities; implementation of road safety programmes; plans for legislation submitted in the outer years of the Medium Term Strategic Framework; the ...
Transport
Department of Transport, ACSA, ATNS, SACAA, SANRAL, SAMSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
19 Apr 2018
Five entities from the Department of Transport briefed the Committee on their annual performance plans, budgets and strategic plans. The entities were the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA), Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) ...