Parliament rejects planned oversight visits to the Durban and Richards Bay ports, DA asks Speaker to intervene
4 December 2023
The DA has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa Nqakula, requesting that she urgently intervenes in reversing a decision denying members of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises an opportunity to conduct an oversight visit at the Durban and Richards Bay ports.
Last week, the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises submitted the application to conduct urgent oversight visits at the Durban and Richards Bay port from 7 to 8 December and the application was rejected by Parliament.
It is unclear on what basis the decision to reject the application was taken. Members of the Committee were simply informed via email that the application has been rejected.
The Committee applied to conduct the oversight visits after the DA wrote to the Chairperson of the Committee on 14 November requesting that the Committee conduct the oversight visits in view of the unfolding operational and logistics crises at the two ports.