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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Higher Education and Training Quarter 1 performance
7 Sep 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) on its first quarter expenditure report for the 2018-19 financial year.
The 2018/19 annual performance plan (APP) had a total of 110 targets, of which 75 pertained to the direct outputs by the Department, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Defence facilities in Bloemfontein: Defence, Public Works, Health, Treasury on challenges; with Ministers
4 Sep 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received briefings from the Departments of Defence, Public Works, Health and National Treasury on the infrastructure refurbishment and maintenance challenges experienced at the Department of Defence facilities in Bloemfontein. The three departmental delegations, accompanied by their Ministers, were tasked with finding a lasting situation to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations and Expansions: Office of Chief Procurement Officer briefing
28 Aug 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer in National Treasury gave a presentation outline which focused on the deviations and expansions requests made from April to June 2018 in organs of state, deviation and expansion trends, deviations supported/not supported, expansions supported/not supported, where the fault lines are and what Treasury ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Section 89: Removal of President – finalisation of revised rules
28 Aug 2018
The National Assembly Rules committee met to consider the following; the draft agenda for the meeting, two outstanding minutes, the legal opinion on the proposals for the removal of the president from office in terms of section 89 of the Constitution as well as the proposal on draft rules to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 performance 2018/19 of departments
24 Aug 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from Parliamentary Committee Researchers on the analysis of the First Quarter Expenditure Report for the 2018/19 financial year. Most of the departments’ expenditure reports indicated either overspending or under-spending of the funds allocated to them.
There were numerous vacant positions in most ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 1 performance; Deviation/Expansion requests to Office of Chief Procurement Officer
21 Aug 2018
The National Treasury (NT) told the Committee that in the first quarter of 2018/19, government entities had under-spent their budgets by nearly R10 billion, which was 5.3% of the funds available. The Departments which had contributed the most to this under-spending had been Higher Education and Training (R2 billion), Police ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour Quarter 3 performance
23 May 2018
The Department of Labour (DoL) and three of its entities – the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and the Compensation Fund – briefed the Committee on their third quarterly performance.
The DoL explained its frustrations in dealing with non-compliant companies, and said it ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: proposed amendments & adoption; with Deputy Minister
16 May 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met for further deliberations on the Labour Relations (LRA) Bill, the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Bill, and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill in the presence of the Deputy Minister. The Committee considered and adopted the amendments to the three Bills and the highlights ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage Bill; Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill; Labour Relations Amendment Bill: Labour budget: Committee Report
9 May 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met for deliberations on the A-Lists of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill, the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Bill, and the Labour Relations Bill. Highlights of the discussions were as follows:
Labour Relations Bill (LRA)
Clause 8
“(8) The Minister, [in] after consultation with ...
Employment and Labour
Race-horse groomers engagement
2 May 2018
The Committee met to engage the South African Grooms Association.
It heard that South African Grooms Association (SAGA) had since 2011 been fighting for recognition and only managed to get recognition through a recognition agreement facilitated by the Department of Trade and Industry between the National Gambling Board (NGB) and ...