Place a moratorium on bills before parliament
Democracy must not be short-changed by rushing through legislation, especially by officials who had worked for the Zuma administration
This is a call for a moratorium on new legislation until a new parliament is elected in 2019. With the exception of money bills and urgent matters, there are good reasons to halt the industrial-scale production line of bills churned out by government departments, approved by the cabinet and served up for squeezing through by parliament before next year’s election. The first and most fundamental reason for a moratorium is time. With just six months remaining before the general election of 2019 and considering that parliament will rise for the two-month end-of-year break and finally adjourn for a further two months of campaigning, the legislature has precious little time to even work through the raft of bills already before it. Parliament is tasked with oversight and deliberative functions as well as legislative, and democracy cannot and must not be short-changed by rubber stamping and rushing through legislation. There is simply too much at stake for the poor, the indigent and the po...
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