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Home Affairs
Refugee situation in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement; with the Minister
10 Mar 2020
The Committee received briefings on the situation of the refugees in Cape Town who were demanding to be resettled to a third country. The Minister of Home Affairs provided a background to the protest, the events that had transpired, as well as the Department’s plans to move the process forward. ...
Home Affairs
DHA, IEC & GPW on 2020/21 budgets, with input from National Treasury; with Minister and Deputy Minister
3 Mar 2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the budget increases of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for the 2020/21 financial year. This was followed by briefings by the DHA, the IEC and the Government Printing Works (GPW) on their 2020/21 budgets.
The Minister briefed ...
Home Affairs
Department 2019 Quarter 2 & 3 performance; BMA Bill; Impact of SONA, with Minister
18 Feb 2020
Awaited document: Committee Content Advisor - State of the Nation Address relating to work of Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs
The Minister of Home Affairs provided an update on the issue of refugees sheltering in a Cape Town church, and said an unsavoury situation had arisen at the church in Greenmarket ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Committee Programme on provincial public hearings
4 Feb 2020
Documents used in meeting:
Proposed Public Hearings Programme (to be amended)
Call for Comment
ATC191209: First Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, dated 5 December 2019
Section 25 Review Process
RSA ...
Home Affairs
BMA Bill: NCOP amendments; Performance Audit on undocumented immigrants; with Minister & Deputy Minister
4 Feb 2020
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) amendments to the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill.
The Minister of Home Affairs gave an overview of the BMA which would be established as a single implementation entity under a single executive ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Extending deadline for public submissions & public hearings programme
30 Jan 2020
Call for Comment
ATC191209: First Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, dated 5 December 2019
Section 25 Review Process
RSA Constitution
Rules of Parliament
The Chairperson informed the Committee that there ...
Home Affairs
DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on its strategies to resolve long queues at its offices. After the Department had been inundated with calls from frustrated members of the public last year, the Minister had directed it to conduct an assessment in order to develop intervention strategies ...
Home Affairs
2018 High-Level Panel Recommendations: DHA and IEC briefing; Fireblade Aviation facility and EOH Mthombo contracts: DHA updates, with the Deputy Minister
19 Nov 2019
In the presence of the Deputy Minister, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) briefed the Committee on recommendations made by High Level Panel Report on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change on changes to the electoral system. In addition, the Department of Home Affairs updated the ...
Home Affairs
Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister
5 Nov 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on resolving the network downtime at DHA offices and the procurement process of the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS). The Department also provided details of its litigation case management system and issues arising from ...
Home Affairs
Issues that affect migrants and citizens: engagement with NGOs & stakeholders
29 Oct 2019
The Committee engaged with five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address issues that affected migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa. A wide variety of views was put forward by the NGOs, with some suggesting concrete proposals for the amelioration of the plight of undocumented migrants, while others blamed politicians for ...