Parliament, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 – Cluster 5: Economics will today answer questions in the National Assembly (NA).
Some of the issues covered by the MPs' questions directed to the Ministers include: whether there is enough funding in the event that the Government expropriates land without compensation, the details of the tourism turnaround strategy to ensure that the country meets its target of five million international arrivals and one million domestic travels by 2021 and whether any decision has been taken regarding the scrapping of the e-toll project of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.
The Economics cluster includes the Ministers of Public Works, Rural Development and Land Reform, Science and Technology, Small Business Development, Telecommunications and Postal Services, Trade and Industry, Tourism and Transport.
The question paper is available on Parliament’s website
https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/quest_pap/2ad9f1a9-032e-45ce-b17c-fa3c855f2c99.pdf
The National Council of Provinces will also hold a debate on the lack of accountability and monitoring by the Department of Water and Sanitation that leads to substandard quality of bulk infrastructure; and the inability of National Treasury to take action, against corruption with reference to the bulk infrastructure, to retrieve some of the money wasted.
DETAILS OF THE SITTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Date: Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Time: 14:00
Venue: NCOP Chamber, Parliament
and
Time: 15:00
Venue: NA Chamber, Parliament
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