President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in the National Assembly this week for another session of questions while the National Council of Provinces will host the Local Government Week programme.
These are some of the key activities taking place in Parliament this week where there will also be debate on 11 Budget Votes of various departments and 38 meetings of Committees of Parliament.
Parliamentary spokesperson, Molotho Mothapo, said President Cyril Ramaphosa will be back in the National Assembly to reply to questions of Members of Parliament on Tuesday.
“Regular plenary House sittings featuring question and answer sessions with the President is one way in which Parliament implements its constitutional responsibility of scrutinising and overseeing executive actions,” he said.
Mothapo said in terms of the rules of Parliament, the President is scheduled to appear once per quarter to answer questions in the National Assembly, to deal with matters of national importance.
He said the questions to be put to the President for oral replies, are submitted to the Speaker of the National Assembly at least 16 days before the President’s appearance.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly will dedicate the rest of the week to mini-plenaries that deal with Budget Votes of these departments: Basic Education, Science and Technology, Statistics South Africa, Justice and Constitutional Development, Social Development (all on Wednesday); Economic Development, Arts & Culture, Human Settlements, Communications (on Thursday) and Rural Development & Land Reform, and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (on Friday).
The NCOP, in collaboration with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), will host the three-day Local Government Week starting on Tuesday.
The programme, whose theme is “Land Use: Towards Integrated Spatial Planning,” will culminate in a debate in the House on Thursday where the outcomes of the three-day engagements will be debated.
