Parliament pleased with its ‘vastly improved’ law-drafting and legislative oversight
Parliament’s presiding officers gave themselves a pat on the back for what they called a vastly improved state of law-drafting and government oversight in the legislature’s mid-term period on Tuesday morning. The National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) speaker Thandi Modise said Parliament had made significant strides in re-imagining its core mandate since 2014. Parliament’s leadership has not been without its challenges, with the secretary to Parliament, Gengezi Mgidlana, placed on suspension; Parliament’s management and organised labour often at each other’s throats; and an increasingly obvious working-relationship breakdown between the ANC and opposition MPs. Mbete said the fifth Parliament had passed 96 bills to date, with almost all the passed bills assented to by President Jacob Zuma, except for the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill in 2014, and the Expropriation Bill in 2016. "Parliament has also built its o...
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