To save taxpayers’ money, the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) may be better placed under the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition (DTIC) where one could then leverage on economies of scale, improve efficiencies and reduce duplicity.

GCIS must navigate the cacophony of ideas, worldviews, and attempts at social engineering, with the mandate to communicate with the South Africa populace in a manner in-keeping with our Constitution.

Not only is the policy for the establishment of a single Judiciary a Constitutional imperative, but also the lack of the appropriate policy and legislative framework contributes to the many inefficiencies and other challenges that the judicial system experiences as indicated by various other speakers.

Extensive amendments to the International Health Regulations 2005 were accepted at the end of May when we were conducting our elections, without the South African public and without this Parliament having any say or oversight.

South Africa has 200 years worth of high quality coal beneath our soil. To not use this coal with clean coal technology to protect our environment, would be unjust and tantamount to deliberately sabotaging our economy.

The ACDP urges the Minister to use the Department’s resources in a consistent manner, to foster a spirit of peace, protect our sovereignty, and create an enabling environment for South African business.

If this Department is serious about its mandate, then it must implement policies which, indeed, create more job opportunities. There must be an investing in infrastructure projects, promoting small business growth, and improving education and training programmes.

The prospect of having a JSC nominee who was removed from judicial office for gross misconduct sitting on the very body that made that finding, is plainly wrong.

Nominees to the Electoral Reform Consultation Panel leave much to be desired. We also believe this is a duplication of various processes and a waste of money.

The Growth Lab singles out public procurement regulations as the creator of a tender-preneur economy, which it says benefits an exceedingly narrow few at the expense of the rest of South Africa.

This pension reform seeks to strike that correct balance by permitting fund members to access a portion of their savings, which is very positive.

It is very important that we introduce safeguards to protect citizens at home. The ACDP, therefore, welcomes an NCOP amendment that will require explicit consent for access to private property and also the possibility of a warrant.