The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development considered the input from the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) on the Liquor Products Amendment Bill, which was introduced in 2016 and passed by Parliament in 2018. The committee further received responses to the NHTL’s submission from the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and input from Parliament’s Legal Services. The Bill went through all the legislative processes in the two .
ANCESTORS DAY: AVUMILE AMADLOZI
ON SATURDAY 8 May, Ancestors Day was officially launched.
Contralesa was joined by various representatives of traditional and cultural organisations to celebrate the new day of commemoration at Mathibela Royal Palace in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.
Among the organisations that sent representatives were the National Heritage Council, the CRL Rights Commission and the National House of Traditional Leaders.
Contralesa general secretary Zolani Mkiva said: “We identified a gap in the way the calendar is structured.
“There isn’t a single day to honour our ancestors. We are here because of those who came before us.”
Mkiva said they were preparing a petition to submit to the government, so the day could be announced in the official gazette.
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A Canadian MP has apologised for appearing stark naked during a parliamentary Zoom meeting two weeks after a similar blooper left a member of the National House of Traditional Leaders red-faced in SA.
William Amos issued the apology after a screenshot of him standing between the Quebec and Canadian flags holding a mobile phone over his private parts during the meeting found its way onto social media.
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