Parliament bogged down with bills

[schumi]

Johannesburg – Parliament has complained about being flooded with a plethora of bills and having little time to conclude them.

Speaker Baleka Mbete and MPs complained that this had impacted on the processing and resulted in some of the bills being returned by President Jacob Zuma.

The National Assembly said that this year alone, cabinet had sent 66 bills, with the expectation being that they would be concluded in a year.

This is in addition to 26 bills from last year still requiring urgent finalisation.

Acting cabinet spokesperson Donald Liphoko referred inquiries to Ronnie Mamoepa, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson.

Mamoepa said cabinet was yet to finalise the legislative programme for Parliament for the year.

He said the numbers were speculative until the programme has been finalised.

“Cabinet is still to finalise the legislative programme whereupon the leader of government business, the deputy president, will submit to Parliament. At this stage these numbers are speculative.”

In the meeting of the programming committee last week DA chief whip John Steenhuisen said Parliament needed to be realistic on what can be achieved in a year.

More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/parliament-bogged-down-with-bills-8167928

 

[Arthur]

And so we multiply our laws. Laws. Laws. Laws. It's insane. We're well on our way to flipping out completely like the Europeans.

 

[Binary_Bark]

And so we multiply our laws. Laws. Laws. Laws. It's insane. We're well on our way to flipping out completely like the Europeans.

Police state is our heading

 

[OCP]

Less trips to KFC, stop ****ing around and do your job !

You are there to serve us, not your belly and backpocket ffs

 

[yebocan]

what is currently in the pipeline...

https://pmg.org.za/bills/current/