POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: SARS imbroglio and voter registration dominate
by Troye Lund,
2016-03-07 05:49:41.0
THE stand-off between Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) will continue this week, as the Hawks wait for Mr Gordhan to answer a list of 27 questions as part of their investigation into a so-called rogue unit at SARS.
The questions were sent to Mr Gordhan just days before his 2016 national budget speech.
Mr Gordhan, who was SARS commissioner when the unit was allegedly operating, slammed the move as one aimed at distracting him.
The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), which will announce the results of the first weekend of voter registration this week ahead of this year’s municipal election, is expected to approach the Constitutional Court this week after it was forced by a court ruling to postpone the scheduled rerun of by-elections in Tlokwe Local Municipality in the North West.
The IEC will ask the court for clarity on the ruling that postponed the election based on its finding that the IEC had not met requirements to provide the addresses of voters on the voters’ roll. The court ordered the IEC to rectify this irregularity. This has significant implications for the municipal elections, which have to be held before August this year.
On Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma will travel to Nigeria, where he will address a joint session of Nigeria’s National Assembly. He and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will also address the SA-Nigeria Business Forum. Cabinet ministers and a business delegation will accompany him.
In Parliament on Tuesday, the portfolio committee on home affairs will be briefed on the asylum statistics in SA. On the same day, the committee on human settlements will receive a briefing on the progress made to upgrade distressed mining towns.
On Tuesday, the National Energy Regulator of SA will brief Parliament’s energy committee about its decision to grant Eskom a 9.4% electricity price increase for the 2016/17 financial year.
The following day, Eskom will brief Parliament’s portfolio committee on public enterprises on the progress being made in implementing its turnaround strategy, as well as its infrastructure-build programme.
On Wednesday, ministers who make up the Cabinet’s economic cluster will answer questions in the National Assembly. Included in the line-up of questions will be inquiries on the government’s black industrialist programme, and the domestic benefits derived from the trade deal with the US in the form of the African Growth and Opportunities Act. Lengthy negotiations between the two countries on this have just been concluded.
Pravin Gordhan. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES
THE stand-off between Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) will continue this week, as the Hawks wait for Mr Gordhan to answer a list of 27 questions as part of their investigation into a so-called rogue unit at SARS.
The questions were sent to Mr Gordhan just days before his 2016 national budget speech.
Mr Gordhan, who was SARS commissioner when the unit was allegedly operating, slammed the move as one aimed at distracting him.
The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), which will announce the results of the first weekend of voter registration this week ahead of this year’s municipal election, is expected to approach the Constitutional Court this week after it was forced by a court ruling to postpone the scheduled rerun of by-elections in Tlokwe Local Municipality in the North West.
The IEC will ask the court for clarity on the ruling that postponed the election based on its finding that the IEC had not met requirements to provide the addresses of voters on the voters’ roll. The court ordered the IEC to rectify this irregularity. This has significant implications for the municipal elections, which have to be held before August this year.
On Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma will travel to Nigeria, where he will address a joint session of Nigeria’s National Assembly. He and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will also address the SA-Nigeria Business Forum. Cabinet ministers and a business delegation will accompany him.
In Parliament on Tuesday, the portfolio committee on home affairs will be briefed on the asylum statistics in SA. On the same day, the committee on human settlements will receive a briefing on the progress made to upgrade distressed mining towns.
On Tuesday, the National Energy Regulator of SA will brief Parliament’s energy committee about its decision to grant Eskom a 9.4% electricity price increase for the 2016/17 financial year.
The following day, Eskom will brief Parliament’s portfolio committee on public enterprises on the progress being made in implementing its turnaround strategy, as well as its infrastructure-build programme.
On Wednesday, ministers who make up the Cabinet’s economic cluster will answer questions in the National Assembly. Included in the line-up of questions will be inquiries on the government’s black industrialist programme, and the domestic benefits derived from the trade deal with the US in the form of the African Growth and Opportunities Act. Lengthy negotiations between the two countries on this have just been concluded.
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