In May 2022, the Minister of Small Business Development published in the Government Gazette a notice inviting public comment on a draft Small Enterprise Development “Masterplan”. The period for comment on the draft Masterplan has now closed.
In February 2022 the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) invited the public to comment on its bewildering draft FSCA strategy for promoting financial sector “transformation”.
On 28 February, 2022 the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) issued a Press Release through which the public was to be invited to comment on its astonishing draft FSCA strategy for promoting financial sector “transformation”.
Traditionally, a socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA) should, at the least, assess a proposed law’s adverse impacts on economic growth and on the economy. Regrettably, the government’s current SEIAs of proposed bills fail to do that and are quite worthless. Look elsewhere for the real impact of new laws.
The Independent Communications Authority (Icasa) has unduly delayed the making available of electromagnetic spectrum in high-demand frequency bands.
In 2008, South Africa’s Minister of Communications published a Migration Policy, which declared that the analogue-broadcast signal would be switched off in 2011 (four years earlier than the ITU’s targeted 2015 date).
The clause states that it may be just and equitable for nil compensation to be “paid”, “where land is expropriated in the public interest”.
Controversially the judge relied on the shaky principle of ‘ignorance of the law excuses no-one’
There are indeed better ways. The Act could for example, restrict loss of citizenship to cases of renunciation of citizenship or of waging war against the Republic.
FMF’s comment on proposed amendments to the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act
