That week in Parliament

BILLS SIGNED INTO LAW   The Presidency issued media statements announcing that four new Acts have joined the statute books: the Electoral Matters Amendment Act: aligning various statutes with provisions in the Electoral Law Amendment Act, 2023,...

After a dizzying and tumultuous five years, Parliament will rise this week ahead of the 2024 National and Provincial elections. Both Houses have scheduled plenary sittings on Thursday, where the main aim is to approve legislation. In the National...

LABOUR COURT AND LABOUR APPEAL COURT RULES The Office of the Chief Justice gazetted new rules to regulate the conduct of proceedings in the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court. Published as addenda to minutes of a 20 November 2023 meeting of the...

The National Assembly Programming Committee convened last Friday and scheduled two hybrid sittings for the lower house on 9 and 16 May 2024. Officially, this is still a constituency period for the National Assembly, but these sittings have been...