Transport committee's ports and department reports sit behind a paywall, and the public cannot read them
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group page for the meeting on National Ports Authority performance and the transport department's quarterly report is restricted to subscribers, with only the list of MPs present visible to the public.
A parliamentary committee meeting on the performance of the National Ports Authority and on developments at the country’s ports cannot be read by the public without a subscription, according to the Parliamentary Monitoring Group page that hosts it.
The PMG record for the meeting, titled National Ports Authority Q1 2026/27 Performance and developments at various ports. DoT Q4 2025/26 Performance. Committee APP, is listed as restricted. The page states that access to this committee report, and those for the other committees it names, is restricted, and that all other committees are freely accessible.
What the page does show is who was in the room. The chairperson was Mr S D Selamolela of the ANC. The members present were Ms B Creecy (ANC), Mr M R Gana (RISE Mzansi), Dr C H Hunsinger (DA), Mr T T S Kubheka (MKP), Mr N Maduna (ANC), Mr C N Malematja (ANC), Ms T L Marawu (ATM), Ms I M Mbiyo (ANC), Mr M P Motubatse (MKP), Ms N S Nkopane (ANC) and Mr S G Vilakazi (DA).
Transport is one of the 13 National Assembly committees whose meeting reports sit behind the PMG’s subscription barrier. The others are Communications and Digital Technologies, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Defence and Military Veterans, Electricity and Energy, Employment and Labour, Finance Standing Committee, Health, International Relations, Justice and Constitutional Development, Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Police, and Trade, Industry and Competition.
The PMG says non-government and community-based organisations and public education institutions are exempt from the subscription fee. Those users are asked to log in with an email address that identifies their affiliation, and to write to [email protected] if they cannot get in and belong to one of those groups. Business, government and other users are asked to subscribe.
The page carries no audio and no related documents. It offers a PDF download through the browser’s print function.
The subject matter named in the meeting title concerns two things the public has a direct stake in. One is the National Ports Authority’s performance in the first quarter of 2026/27. The other is the Department of Transport’s performance in the fourth quarter of 2025/26, together with the committee’s annual performance plan business. The page as published does not carry the content of either report, the findings of the committee, or any resolution it took.
That leaves the substantive record of the meeting, including what the committee was told about port performance and what it decided, outside public view on this page. The PMG states the restriction is a subscription matter and sets out the exemptions above. It does not say on the page when the report will become freely accessible, and it does not state why transport is among the premium committees.
Source: Parliamentary Monitoring Group, National Ports Authority Q1 2026/27 Performance and developments at various ports. DoT Q4 2025/26 Performance. Committee APP, https://pmg.org.za/committee-meeting/43690
