PUBLISHED BY: City Press WRITTEN BY: Matshidiso Lencoasa As a so-called born-free, this language of freedom sits in painful tension with the lived realities of hardship and oppression facing not only our generation, but communities across South Africa. This year also marks 30 years of our constitutional order, which secured Continue Reading
SECTION27 to make submissions to Appropriations Committees in Parliament on 11 November 2022 SECTION27 calls on Parliament to reverse real cuts to basic education and healthcare over mid term 9 November 2022 – SECTION27 will make submissions on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill before Parliament’s Appropriations Committees on 11 November Continue Reading
Socio-economic rights will never fully be realised if we do not prepare and address for the climate crisis. Read SECTION27’s submissions to parliament on the Climate Change Bill here.
On Wednesday this week it will be the 25th day of public hearings in Parliament on the National Health Insurance Bill since the hearings started in May last year. In Part 1 of this two-part series on the NHI Bill, Alicestine October looks at how MPs have dealt with oral submissions on the Bill in Parliament so far and assesses what this means for the Bill going forward.
MEDIA ADVISORY: SECTION27 TO PRESENT ON THE COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON 12 AUGUST 2021 10 August 2021 — SECTION27 will make submissions before the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) on Thursday, 12 August 2021. In our submission, SECTION27 will highlight Continue Reading
Submission to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13-2017]. 9 July 2021 – Executive Summary SECTION27 welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13- 2017] (‘CAB’). Our submission reinforces the importance of the CAB’s exceptions for educational purposes from the perspective Continue Reading
Over 200 social movements, trade unions, civil society organisations and individuals call on Parliament to reject the unconstitutional 2021 Budget and uphold human rights.
BUDGET JUSTICE COALITION KEY POINTS ON THE 2019 MEDIUM TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT (MTBPS) A CALL TO ACTION THE MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET PROPOSALS WILL MAKE LIFE HARDER FOR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA. The MTBPS is government’s broad three-year spending plan and it helps national Continue Reading
South Africa’s executive grows, Parliament is the loser For immediate release 06 June 2014 Issued by Community Law Centre, UWC, Parliamentary Monitoring Group, SECTION27 and the Women’s Legal Centre As South Africa’s executive under the ANC government has been enlarged and strengthened, proposed changes to the country’s national parliament seem Continue Reading
Read the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition’s analysis of the ‘Eastern Cape Health Systems Intervention’ which is being presented this morning to the Portfolio Committee on Health in Parliament here ECHCAC- response to ECDoH _Eastern Cape Heath Systems Interventions_ 5 November 2013 FINAL
CAPE TOWN – National health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and newly appointed Head of the Eastern Cape health department Dr Thobile Mbengashe today addressed the Portfolio Committee on Health regarding plans to address the crisis in the province. Committee chair Mr Bevan Goqwana acknowledged that the briefing had been called Continue Reading
Cabinet recently resolved to ask Parliament to take the necessary steps to enable South Africa to ratify a decision taken by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on intellectual property and access to medicines. At its meeting held on 16 March 2011, Cabinet decided to request Parliament to –
– ratify the WTO decision on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; and
– deposit “an instrument of ratification … with the WTO.”
As organisations that are committed to ensuring universal access to essential medicines, as an integral part of the constitutional right to have access to health care services, TAC and SECTION27 call on Parliament not to ratify the decision. In this press statement we explain why we make this call.
