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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: Recommendation; Committee Legacy Report
20 Mar 2024
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities convened a virtual meeting to address internal Committee business items, including the adoption of the Legacy Report, the report on filling vacancies in the Commission for Gender Equality, and the adoption of minutes. Members gathered to deliberate on these ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports: Learner Pregnancy-Policy Interplay; Assessment of Government 2023
5 Mar 2024
The Portfolio Committee met with the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) to receive a report on the learner pregnancy-policy interplay: school dropout of adolescent girls during pregnancy and in the postpartum period in selected South African schools. The Committee also received a report on government implementation of the National ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
State of Shelters: Implementation of CGE Recommendations
27 Feb 2024
The Commission on Gender Equality presented its 2018/19 Report on the State of Shelters in South Africa and its 2022/23 Report on the Implementation of Recommendations for Shelters by National and Provincial Departments of Social Development.
The Commission reported that provinces had for the most case partially implemented the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: shortlisting of candidates for interviews
21 Feb 2024
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities met in Parliament to finalise its shortlisting process of vacancies on the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The Committee agreed to finalise 20 candidates to be interviewed. The names would now be screened and opened to public comment. Interviews ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: shortlisting for interviews
20 Feb 2024
Documents awaited
The Committee met in Parliament to consider and deliberate on the short-listing framework and criteria to fill six vacancies for part- and full-time commissioners at the Commissioner for Gender Equality. The Research Unit briefed the Committee on the framework for considering commissioners for the CGE while Parliament's ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: Programme & Advert; Removal of CGE commissioner for misconduct; Committee Annual Activities Report
7 Dec 2023
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss its programme for filling vacancies at the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). Among the issues raised were the importance of sign language services for the upcoming interviews with applicants, the contents, timing and placement of advertisements, and ensuring that the process would be ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Elimination of child pregnancies & protection of children against sexual exploitation: Department briefings (with Minister & Deputy Ministers present)
30 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Multiparty Women’s Caucus received briefings from the departments of Social Development, Basic Education and Health on the elimination of child pregnancies and the protection of children against sexual exploitation. The departments all agreed that the issues must be dealt with through a multi-sectoral approach, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: adoption; CGE Commissioner vacancies
28 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting the Portfolio Committee discussed and adopted its Public Hearings Report on the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Amendment Bill. The Committee adopted its motion of desirability, each of the clauses and the Bill. The more significant Committee amendments to the Bill were to Clauses 2, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Committee Interim Report on National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill, with Minister
23 Nov 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities met on the virtual platform to consider and adopt the Committee Interim Report on the National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill [B13-2022].
The Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities was present at the meeting.
Due to the ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Plan for Post-School Education and Training; Progress On Migration of Nursing & Agricultural Colleges; CGE Activity report on the Maputo Protocol 2023; with Deputy Minister
22 Nov 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Innovation met with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) for a presentation on the National Plan for the Post-School Education and Training (NPPSET) system. The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), together with the Department of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: proposed amendments; with Deputy Minister
21 Nov 2023
This was a short meeting for the Committee to formally adopt the Committee proposed amendments (A-List). At the next meeting, it will consider and adopt the B-version. The Committee will apply to the National Assembly for permission to add an amendment to a section in the prinicpal Act that ...