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NCOP Security and Justice
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: public hearings day 2
20 Sep 2023
Video (Part 1)
Video (Part 2)
Sixteen public submissions were heard with some asking that the Bill be implemented as quickly as possible and others stating that what already existed in law was sufficient. Committee members focused their questions on the definitions, the exemptions and the sanctions. They also asked ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: public hearings day 1
19 Sep 2023
The Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill (B9B-2018) was met with opposition from various organisations. Shema Koleinu, IlithaLabantu, South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), Centre for Social Justice at Stellenbosch University supported the Bill, arguing that it will protect against hate crimes, combat antisemitism, ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
AU Decentralisation Charter: ratification
19 Sep 2023
AU Decentralisation Charter
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Committee on the African Union Charter on Decentralization which the AU adopted in 2014. It solidifies the commitment to uphold the values and principles of decentralisation, local governance, and local development ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Salaries of Judges and Magistrates; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response & deliberation; with Deputy Minister
5 Sep 2023
The Select Committee met on a virtual platform for a briefing on the rate at which salaries, allowances and benefits were payable to Constitutional Court judges, judges and magistrates annually, and to receive a summary of the written submissions received on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Status of Women's Health in South Africa: engagement with DoH, DWYPD & StatsSA
31 Aug 2023
Video (Part 1)
Video (Part 2)
Meeting virtually on the last day of Women's Month, the Multiparty Women’s Caucus received three briefings. Those briefings were made by the Department of Health (DoH), Statistics South Africa (StatsSA), and the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) on the Status ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Committee report on the appointment of the National Council for Correctional Services (NCCS)
15 Jun 2023
The Committee met to consider and adopt the draft report on the appointment of the National Council for Correctional Services (NCCS) in terms of section 83(2) (h) of the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998.
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Committee Programme
15 Jun 2023
The Multiparty Women’s Caucus met on the virtual platform to receive a briefing on the Caucus’s third term programme.
The Caucus was mindful of the short time period for the third term, and Members requested that some key matters be discussed in order to prepare for the incoming seventh ...
NCOP Security and Justice
National Council for Correctional Services Appointment (with Ministry); Committee Reports: DCS & DHA Budgets
14 Jun 2023
The NCOP Select Committee on Security and Justice met with the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and his team on a virtual platform to discuss appointments to the National Council for Correctional Services (NCCS).
The Minister was mandated to appoint the NCCS in consultation with ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Committee Report on 2021/2022 Consolidated Local Government Municipal Audit Outcomes
13 Jun 2023
AGSA: 2021/22 Local Government Audit Outcomes
The Select Committee adopted its report on the 2021/2022 Local Government Audit Outcomes.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) supported the report, but expressed reservation on a recommendation to institutionalise and implement the District Development Model. A Member of the DA said ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Adopting of Progress Reports on Executive Undertakings by Ministers of Transport and Water and Sanitation
8 Jun 2023
The Committee met briefly to adopt two progress reports on executive undertakings made by the Minister of Transport during the sitting of 19 May 2022 and the Minister of Water and Sanitation during the sitting of 12 May 2022 .