Godfrey Osotsi

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. The key objective of the amendments to the Competition Act is to deal with some ambiguities in the parent Act. For instance, to define what buyer power is in...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to also raise my voice on this Motion. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to agree with the recommendation of the Committee in that, in my view, these regulations are illegal, unlawful and very punitive. Besides...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is important to emphasise these issues as well because I have also read the Report. So, the compliance requirements are not possible in the next two months. For example, the requirement saying that they need to have an...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Hon. Speaker, I also made a request for a statement to the Departmental Committee on Lands on matters of eviction in Kiptuya Ward. That was on the last day before we went for the short recess. I have not had any feedback from the Committee....

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) I want to go on record. I know we passed it, but this is a fundamental amendment because you are going to stop companies from processing data.

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have been listening very keenly to the discussion around the meeting that was to take place here in the Chamber next week. I am not a Member of the SDGs group and I am a strong member of the Anglican...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I oppose that amendment because Section 25 that is being referred to is very limiting. When you look at the Bill, the principles of data protection, which is being referred to, is spread all over the Bill and not just Section...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I have a lot of respect for the Leader of the Majority Party. I just wanted to inform him that Part VII, exemptions, caters for that. National security is exempted on matters to do with data protection and also under Clause...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is a very innovative amendment and I support the Leader of the Majority Party. You can imagine we are going to have thousands and thousands of data processors and data controllers. If we say that the office will be processing...

Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (Nominated, ANC) (Off-record)