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Joint Rules
Consideration of establishment of a Subcommittee on Report of the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change (HLP)
28 Mar 2018
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Committee Report on Political Party Funding Bill financial implications
20 Mar 2018
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties, dated 28 November 2017
The Ad Hoc Committee met to consider and adopt its Draft Report on the Financial Implications of the Political Party Funding Bill on the State and Draft Committee Minutes dated 14 March 2018. The ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Political Party Funding Bill financial implications: National Treasury & IEC briefing
14 Mar 2018
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties, dated 28 November 2017
The Chairperson contextualised the work of the Committee. An Ad Hoc Committee had presented a report at the end of 2017 and, as was practice in Parliament, anything that had not been finalised ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Political Party Funding Bill: adoption
28 Nov 2017
Prior to adoption of the Political Party Funding Bill, the Committee went through the Bill clause by clause. The Committee had agreed to allow the IEC to utilise 10% of the Multi-Party Democracy Fund to defray expenses but following consultations with experts, the Committee determined that 10% was too generous ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Political Party Funding Bill and Regulations: deliberations on public comments and amendments
21 Nov 2017
All documents confidential drafts: Summary of issues still to be decided; Detailed notes from legal team of 60 pages; Proposals for Changes in Clauses 3, 5, 8, 11; Draft Bill
The intention of the Committee meeting was to give the legal advisor and the drafting team guidance to complete the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Political Party Funding Bill: public hearings Day 1
7 Nov 2017
Black First Land First (BLF) addressed private funding and public funding, and particularly how BLF aimed to move the country away from a funding model that embedded corruption within the political organisations of the country. The movement demanded the repeal of the IEC-required deposit of R600 000 to contest the elections ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Regulations: discussion
3 Nov 2017
The Chairperson informed the Committee that 17 of the 21 submitters had agreed to make an oral submission on the Political Party Funding Bill on the 7 and 8 November 2017. Those who had previously made oral submissions would be restricted to comments on the draft Bill, while those that ...
Joint Rules
Principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on 22 November 2016; Commencement of the Review of the Joint Rules
28 Sep 2017
Relevant Document
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Powers, Privileges, and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislature Act 4 of 2004
The joint sub-committee was convened to consider the principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on Tuesday, 22 November 2016, and the proposed amendments to Chapter ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
IEC & National Treasury responses on Political Party Funding; Outstanding decisions
1 Sep 2017
The IEC had been asked to respond to the Committee’s desire to see the IEC as the manager of the Multi-Party Democracy Fund (MPDF). The question put to the Commission was that if the Committee gave IEC that job, what would be its response? National Treasury had been asked to ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Election of Chairperson
21 Jun 2017
The Committee elected Mr V Smith (ANC) as the Chairperson of the Committee.
The Committee also discussed the issues around the scope of the Committee and emphasised that is should be worded as the resolution that had been adopted by the House. The Committee would allow three weeks for written ...