Parliament's processing of the controversial Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill hit the skids due to 'some challenges' with the public hearings for the bill. | gerbjan
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The BELA bill was first drafted in 2017, but the current iteration was introduced to Parliament last year. Earlier this year, the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, which is processing the bill, embarked on the required public hearings.Last week, the DA complained that the"ANC is trying to capture the public participation process" of the bill in Mpumalanga.
"In order to preserve and maintain the credibility of the public hearings on the Bill, the committee has decided to postpone the hearing and to convene it on a date and in a venue to be communicated later. Furthermore, the committee is conscious of the need to hold three sessions in Mpumalanga as it had done in all other provinces, as such, it has resolved to determine a new date for a further hearing in Mpumalanga," reads a statement from the committee.
Mbinqo-Gigaba, however, said it didn't reflect on the hearings already undertaken, which the committee viewed as successful. She said the only challenges were encountered in Mpumalanga and that the committee would hold another hearing in that province. A date for the resumption of the hearings has not been set yet.
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