Black Sash Submission to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature - Social Assistance Amendment Bill - August 2010

The Black Sash Trust welcomes the opportunity to make a public submission on the Social Assistance Amendment Bill [B 5B - 2010].

We make our submission in accordance with sections 70(1) and 72(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996. 

Our submission deals primarily with: 

(a)         The Bill’s proposal for SASSA to conduct an internal review (reconsideration of an application) and the Social Assistance Appeals crisis;

(b)         The initial Bill’s proposed definition of disability and its implications for those suffering a chronic illness.

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Submission to to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on Amendment of Regulations relating to Maintenance - 24 July 2010

The regulations and related forms are complicated and inaccessible to the general public. Generally, when reading a regulation a person must read many different regulations, sections of the relevant Act, including referring to the relevant forms before understanding what a regulation really entail. 

Black Sash therefore recommends that new regulations and relevant forms are written in the near future which is easy and accessible to the man in the street without compromising the extensive development of this area of law.

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Black Sash KwaZulu Natal Submission to the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on Service Delivery - 19 April 2010

Black Sash would like to take this opportunity to thank the Ad Hoc Committee on Coordinated Oversight on Service Delivery for taking the initiative to hear our submission. This approach is of course in keeping with Doctors for Life International v the Speaker of the National Assembly [2006] in which the Constitutional Court found that public participation is a pivotal part of our constitutional democracy. 

Honorable Chairperson Lechesa Tsenoli and members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Coordinated Oversight on Service Delivery – as you already have received Black Sash submissions from our National Advocacy Programme Office in Parliament a few days ago, and provincial submissions (Eastern Cape and Western Cape), the focus of this Submission will be through a specific lens – encompassing a few aspects of our work here in KZN.

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