BELA Bill: DA triumphant in bid to have all public voices heard on the proposed law

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Basic Education has agreed to process thousands of email submissions on the proposed BELA Bill that are yet to be analysed.Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Basic Education has agreed to process thousands of email submissions yet to be analysed.

This comes after the DA maintained that the public participation process could not be minimised and that no submissions could be discarded. At the time, the portfolio committee chairperson, Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba, had refused to allow clarity-seeking questions and forced the adoption of the draft Consolidated BELA Bill National Report.Parliamentary meeting on wide-ranging basic education amendment bill called off as MPs walk out

"We've sought clarity on how it was decided which written submissions would be analysed as all of the hand-delivered submissions seem to have been analysed, but only a portion of the email submissions were analysed. And we have yet to receive the matrix analysis of submissions of each clause of the BELA Bill. The requested reports from Parliamentary Legal Services and National Treasury were also not forthcoming," he said.

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