Parliament has already conducted a virtual committee meeting, where the Portfolio Committee on Health met with Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and experts through the video conferencing app Zoom.
The phrase “Order! Honourable members!” will in all likelihood be replaced with “Please mute, honourable members!” in the coming weeks, as Parliament will lean on technology to conduct its business.
The committees that National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise identified were: cooperative governance and traditional affairs; health; police; trade and industry; the Joint Standing Committee on Defence; basic education; higher education, science and technology; transport; small business development; finance; appropriations; employment and labour; human settlements, water and sanitation and social development.
On Friday, Philly Mapulane, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology, said the committee would hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday to assess the impact of the lockdown on the higher education sector.The committee will receive a briefing from Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Blade Nzimande on plans of the department, universities and Technical Vocational Education and Training Colleges to rescue the 2020 academic year.
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