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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Taking Parliament to the People 2016: responses by Eastern Cape Departments of Health & Social Development, with DSD Minister and DoH Deputy Minister
17 Oct 2017
The Provincial Departments of Health and Social Development in the Eastern Cape were summoned by the Select Committee on Social Development to individually give reports on their efforts at addressing the findings of the Committee during its oversight visit in 2016.
The Provincial Department of Health (PDoH), Eastern Cape, said ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: adoption; Border Management Authority Bill: discussion, with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Sep 2017
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA), presented the submissions gathered from the public comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill alongside the Department’s response to the comments. Some of the clarifications given by the Department related to the definition of dependants, to which the Department clarified that the Refugees Act had ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report, with Minister
6 Sep 2017
The Minister of Social Development complained about the route for reporting on work done by SASSA. The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was expecting SASSA to report to them and SASSA scarcely had time to meet with the Portfolio Committee. The Minister had already written to the Speaker about ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Chapter 9 Institutions amalgamation; Violence Against Women & Children Programme of Action; Trafficking in Persons SAPS statistics, with Min of Social Development & Deputy Min of Labour
31 Aug 2017
Approximately 40 women Members of Parliament were in attendance at the start of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus meeting, with numbers swelling to about 50 as the meeting progressed. The establishment of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus as a member of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Chapter had been initiated by ...
Social Development
Gender Based Violence Command Centre; SASSA weekly progress report; with Minister
21 Jun 2017
SASSA, with the Minister of Social Development present, explained that it had submitted its first report to the Constitutional Court. It had also had a meeting with the experts. After frank examination of its internal capacity, time, and process required for takeover of the payment function from CPS, SASSA is ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Minister of Social Development; Minister of Small Business Development Executive Undertakings: progress report
21 Jun 2017
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings was briefed by the Minister of Social Development and the Department of Social Development (DSD) on the Progress Reports on Executive Undertakings made by the Minister of Social Development during policy debate on the Budget Vote 17: Social Development on 26 May ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: public submissions; SASSA & NDA Annual Performance Plan
20 Jun 2017
The Select Committee met with Parliamentary and State legal advisers, as well as a delegation from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), to finalise the Refugees Amendment Bill. However, the bill could not be finalised because some submissions had been received late, and the Committee, the legal advisors and the ...
Social Development
SASSA engagement with South African Post Office (SAPO) on payment of grants; with Minister
31 May 2017
SASSA led by the Minister briefed the Committee on its engagement with South African Post Office (SAPO). SAPO has indicated its readiness to offer its services to SASSA as a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in compliance with the ICT White Paper which was approved by Cabinet and in an orderly transition ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA court decision implementation; SASSA irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing
16 May 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) had called for a report from SASSA on the status of implementation of the Constitutional Court decision about Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). The SASSA Manager for Special Projects went through the progress made on the court orders. SASSA was compiling the first quarterly ...