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PMG provides information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting. The aim is to provide a type of Hansard for the proceedings of the more than forty South African Parliamentary Committees for three advocacy organisations (Black Sash, Human Rights Committee and Idasa). PMG was established because there is no official record publicly available of the committee proceedings - the engine room of Parliament - and this type of information is needed by civil society to lobby the Parliament of South Africa on pieces of legislation, matters of democratic processes and parliamentary oversight of the executive. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]