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AARTO Amendment Bill: Portfolio Committee Amendments
14 Feb 2017
The Committee went through the amended Portfolio Committee amendments to the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment (AARTO) Bill compiled from recent discussions, with the assistance of the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA). The Portfolio Committee amendments were approved and these would be published for public comment. Provisionally the closing ...
Transport
Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
31 Jan 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Transport went through the recent drafting of the proposed Portfolio Committee Amendments to Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill with the assistance of the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA). An important focus was the appeals tribunal established by section 28 which was a critical intervention ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with the Minister in attendance
29 Nov 2016
The committee interrogated the board of the South African National Road Agency (SANRAL) on the R1.1 billion in expenditure for the current financial year which did not comply with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), despite the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) having found that between the years ...
Transport
Transport Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
15 Nov 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee met to finalise the recommentdations in the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Transport. The recommendations included the following:
-The Minister must ensure that the Department had a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in place for ...
Transport
Pilot of Administrative Adjudication Road Traffic Offences Act: Tshwane & Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipalities briefing
11 Nov 2016
The Tshwane and Johannesburg (JHB) Metropolitan Municipalities briefed the Committee on their experiences with the pilot phase of the project to implement the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act. AARTO had been promulgated some years before a decision was taken that a pilot project would be run to ...
Transport
Department of Transport on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Auditor General input, and Minister in attendance
8 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee met with the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) and the officials from the Department of Transport (DoT), led by the Minister, to discuss the audit outcomes and annual performance of the Department for 2015/16.
The Department had regressed in comparison to the past two years and ...
Transport
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: response to submissions; Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill: deliberations
25 Oct 2016
The National Department of Transport met with the Committee to discuss progress on two items of legislation related to traffic and transport matters – the National Land Transport Amendment (NLTA) Bill and the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill.
The Department had considered the submissions made by ...
Transport
Road Accident Fund and SANRAL on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
12 Oct 2016
The Committee was briefed by the Road Accident fund (RAF) and the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) on their annual reports for 2015/16.
The Committee was disappointed to hear that the AG had reported that the RAF had regressed, because over the years the RAF had been the ...
Transport
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7-2016]: public hearings day 2
22 Sep 2016
Documents: Comments from Transport for Cape Town’s Transport Authority [awaited]
On the second day of public hearings on the National Land Transport Amendment (NLTA) Bill, the Portfolio Committee on Transport received submissions from the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), Transport for Cape ...
Transport
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7-2016]: public hearings day 1
21 Sep 2016
Public hearings on the National Land Transport Amendment Bill (the Bill) were held, with submissions from Uber SA, Uber Drivers Guild and the SA Meter Taxi Association (SAMTA).
Uber firstly defined what it was and how it operated and asked that e-hailing be introduced into the definitions section of the ...