{"id":967124,"date":"2024-05-21T04:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967124"},"modified":"2024-05-21T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:16:18","slug":"national-assemblys-five-year-term-expires-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/national-assemblys-five-year-term-expires-today\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly\u2019s five-year term expires today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly&#8217;s five-year term will expire at midnight today.<\/p>\n<p>However, the House will continue to operate until May 28, on the eve of the elections.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Assembly had to pass a motion that the late former African National Congress (ANC) Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu had brought to dissolve the House.<\/p>\n<p>This came after the previous elections were proclaimed to take place on May 8, before the Assembly&#8217;s five-year term expired on the 20th of the same month.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly&#8217;s five-year term in the 6th Parliament started on 22 May 2019, with the first sitting and the swearing-in of MPs that was presided over, by the then Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Section 49(4) of the Constitution, the National Assembly remains competent from the time it is dissolved or its term expires, until the day before the first polling.<\/p>\n<p>This means the Assembly&#8217;s functioning could include, holding another special sitting to conclude any outstanding business, although it had its last sitting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the National Assembly passed several pieces of legislation on the last day of the sixth Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The video below is reporting more on the story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P669pV___dE?si=xjjziCQIqWHQ0rev\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The National Assembly&#8217;s five-year term will expire at midnight today. However, the House will continue to operate until May 28, on the eve of the elections. In 2019, the Assembly had to pass a motion that the late former African National Congress (ANC) Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu had brought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":967125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,474],"class_list":["post-967124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-national-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}