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Home Affairs
DHA on total number of children travelling into & out of SA & citizens’ related ability to obtain unabridged birth certificates; Municipal Delimitation Board on preparations for 2016 municipal elections
26 May 2015
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on the new immigration regulations regarding the travel of children in and out of South Africa. Regulations were initially to come into effect on 26 May 2014, but in order to enable travellers to prepare for the implementation of the regulation ...
Home Affairs
Refugees Amendment Bill [B19-2015]: Adoption of Memorandum for Committee to introduce this Bill
19 May 2015
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefed the Committee on the consequences that might occur if the Committee failed to comply with the Constitutional Court order in time. She said that the reading-in remedy in the section 21(5) of the Refugees Act, 1998 would come to an end on 26 September 2015 ...
International Relations
Committee Report on Department of International Relations and Cooperation Budget
13 May 2015
The Committee considered and adopted its Draft Report on Budget Vote 6: Department of International Relations and Cooperation. Minor spelling and grammatical changes were affected to the Draft Report. The DA noted the Draft Report and reserved its rights to vote otherwise in the House. The EFF noted the Draft ...
Home Affairs
Regional Integration and Regional Migration Trends: Home Affairs, IOM & African Centre for Migration & Society briefing
5 May 2015
Three entities briefed the Committee on regional integration and regional migration trends. The International Organisation on Migration (IOM) placed a particular focus on demographics, push factors, facilitating factors, inhibiting factors, and exacerbating factors. The brief was centred on the countries of DRC, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia ...
International Relations
Department of International Relations and Cooperation & African Renaissance Fund Strategic and Annual Plan: Analysis by Content Advisor; Implications of national budget for DIRCO: Departmental analysis
25 Mar 2015
The Content Advisor for the Committee on International Relations and Cooperation briefed the Committee on the key issues emanating from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Strategic Plan 2015-2019 and Annual Performance Plan 2015/16, as also the plans for the African Renaissance Fund. She set out, in detail, ...
Home Affairs
Independent Electoral Commission & Government Printing Works on their 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan
24 Mar 2015
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
One of the main challenges faced by the IEC was office accommodation. Municipalities were increasingly no longer in a position to provide (free or paid) accommodation to Electoral Commission staff since they had no spare capacity. Also due to the maturing of South Africa’s democracy and ...
International Relations
African Renaissance Fund; 3rd quarter 2014/15 performance; Lesotho, Madagascar, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia election outcomes: briefing by Department of International Relations & Cooperation; National Coalition on Palestine petition; Israel elections: with Deputy Minister
18 Mar 2015
With the Deputy Minister Llewellyn Landers present, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) briefed the Committee on the outcomes of elections in Lesotho, Madagascar, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Mauritius and Mozambique. Members were provided with details on when each country’s elections took place, what the atmosphere during the elections ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Abducted Nigerian Girls (#bring back the girls campaign): ministerial briefing; SADC Gender Protocol: Commission on Gender Equality briefing
4 Mar 2015
The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation updated the Multi-Party Women’s Caucus on the government’s role in securing the safe return of the 230 girls kidnapped last year by Boko Haram. She stressed the complexity of the issue and noted that after some girls had managed to escape and ...
International Relations
Department of International Relations and Cooperation on its 2nd and 3rd quarter 2014/15 performance
4 Mar 2015
The Deputy Minister of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) addressed the Committee on issues that had been emerging in the media regarding alleged misrepresentations by South African ambassadors. Members were informed that investigations were being initiated, and in other instances were ongoing, regarding the allegations. The allegations ...
Social Development
Poverty traps and Social Exclusion among Children in South Africa: South African Human Rights Commission briefing
12 Nov 2014
The South African Human Rights Commission briefed the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on its report titled “Poverty traps and Social Exclusion among Children in South Africa”. The new democratic government recorded certain gains in the reduction of poverty in the country; however there was disturbing evidence of considerable and ...