The policy gives mobile networks and other licensees the right to select, enter and use public or private land for the deployment of their network infrastructure. Civic organisation DearSA says it has, through its online public participation platform, facilitated 56 829 submissions (as of 17:00…
In the preamble to the latest Tax Administration Bill, the South African Revenue Service (Sars) indicates that it proposes to “remove the requirement of intent from certain criminal offences”. In what has become Sars’s attempt at a “tough stance” to scare taxpayers into compliance, it…
Proposed changes to tax laws have just been announced, making good on finance minister Tito Mboweni’s 2020 Budget promise to raise “sin” taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. Now might be a good time to make your voice heard – click the link or image. In…
CLICK TO HAVE YOUR SAY – SHAPE THIS BILL. As we enter into Women’s month, the Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, is calling upon on all South Africans and organisations, in particular those in the fight against gender-based violence, to comment on the…
Four months into the pandemic we have a clearer picture of the social and economic impacts of the lockdown. It’s a catastrophe. The lockdown could kill far more people than the virus. At end July 2020, SA had 8,000 deaths from just short of 500,000…
Hopes have been dashed that new regulations would clarify and untangle the mess of the Films and Publications Amendment Bill, also referred to as the Internet Censorship Bill. Have your say at this link; https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/fpb2020/ Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams published new…
Municipalities are to get R20 billion in additional funding to ride them through the Covid-19 crisis, but given their track record of irregular spending, residents and rates payers have a right to be concerned that this money will be properly spent. The DCoG will introduce…
JOHANNESBURG, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of South Africans have written complaints to the government over a new policy that would let mobile networks build cellphone infrastructure like 5G towers on private land, which they say could devalue their property. Since…
More than R1 billion. That’s the cost of various commissions of inquiry in recent years, most of them investigating corruption. The granddaddy of them all is the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture, which has been allocated an additional R130 million to complete its…
In keeping with its mandate to ensure broad public participation in all matters governance-related, DearSA requested an expert legal opinion to ensure that ordinary South Africans have a say in the shaping of these legal amendments. Proposed amendments to the law will make it possible…