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Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Higher Education in South Africa Review: Council on Higher Education briefing
18 Aug 2015
The Council on Higher Education – 20 Year Review of Higher Education will be released towards the end of this year. The Chairperson commented that the Review discussed the achievements, challenges and areas needing improvement. She made it clear that young people must have access to equal education in order ...
Basic Education
Rural schooling / multi-grade schools/ farms schools / non-viable schools; Inclusive Education implementation; Special Needs schools: Department briefing
23 Jun 2015
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on the progress it had made in the implementation of the Education White Paper 6 on Inclusive Education. The presentation included progress made in improving access to education for special needs learners, improving quality education and support, ...
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation Portfolio Committee Reports
17 Jun 2015
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt several minutes dating back as far as mid-March to June 2015. All of them were approved with minor amendments.
At the time of matters arising from the minutes, Members voiced concern that not all the areas that had sanitation challenges were captured ...
Joint Standing on Intelligence
Inspector General of Intelligence: 2nd short-listing for interviews by JSCI Sub-Committee & report-back
3 Jun 2015
In this meeting that was open to the public, the Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) shortlisted three names for interviews for the position of Inspector General of Intelligence. These names were amongst eighteen nominations submitted during a second call for nominations. In the first call for ...
Water and Sanitation
Infrastructure Master Plan: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Deputy Minister in attendance
3 Jun 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) briefed the Committee on the Water and Sanitation Investment Framework. It said the challenges the DWS faced were because there was no integrated water and sanitation policy. The sanitation function had come to the DWS last September and the need for an infrastructure ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on the “polluter pays” principle & Nandoni Dam Resettlement Report
27 May 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) stated that only 14 villages had been affected by the Nandoni Dam project, and all the issues of the other 18 villages had been addressed. The main communities that had been affected were Vhembe and Mopane, and the Department was working very closely ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education on 4th quarterly Grant Report and conditional grants
26 May 2015
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) presented this Department's fourth quarterly report on the performance in meeting its strategic objectives for 2014/15, noting that the Department had already designed a strategic plan and annual performance plan for the five-year term to focus on improving the quality of basic education. Each ...
Basic Education
Learner Transport Draft Policy: Department of Basic Education briefing
19 May 2015
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) led the Committee through a presentation on the draft policy on Learner Transport. Both the Department of Transport and the DBE had developed the draft policy through a consultative process. It had gone through public consultations on 13 November 2014. The DBE emphasised that ...
Basic Education
Committee Report on Department of Basic Education Budget Vote 14
29 Apr 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education considered Budget Vote 14 (Basic Education) together with the Annual Performance Plan (APP) and Strategic Plan of the Department of Basic Education and its statutory bodies. The purpose of the meeting was to deliberate of the draft Portfolio Committee report in light of the ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water & Sanitation, Water Research Commission, Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority on their 2015 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
29 Apr 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and two water entities, the Water Research Commission (WRC) and Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) gave presentations on their strategic and annual performance plans to the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) described its five programmes, ...