The Democratic Alliance (DA) believes that it is unacceptable that the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) has once again failed to table its quarterly reports in Parliament.
The fact is that the NCACC has become a serial violator of the very law it is supposed to enforce.
The NCACC cannot get its act together from year-to-year to meet its statutory requirements and table quarterly reports in Parliament.
The law regulating the NCACC, the National Conventional Arms Control Committee Act (No. 41 of 2002), requires that a quarterly report on "all conventional arms exports concluded during the preceding quarter" be tabled in Parliament.
Newly appointed NCACC chairperson Jeff Radebe made an undertaking to the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans last year that the committee would meet all its statutory reporting requirements including tabling quarterly and annual reports in Parliament.
But this has not happened.