Home Affairs
Independent Electoral Commission & Government Printing Works on their 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan
24 Mar 2015
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
One of the main challenges faced by the IEC was office accommodation. Municipalities were increasingly no longer in a position to provide (free or paid) accommodation to Electoral Commission staff since they had no spare capacity. Also due to the maturing of South Africa’s democracy and ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Hosting of Sedibeng Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality Gauteng Provincial Legislature by the JC on Ethics Committee
20 Mar 2015
Parliament established the first code of conduct for Members in 1997. It was first mainly around disclosure of financial interests. In 2014, Parliament established new a code of conduct. The Committee was mandated to monitor and oversee colleague’s interests. The code of conduct held Members accountable in their exercise of ...
Home Affairs
Deputy Minister and Auditor General on Home Affairs Annual Performance Plan 2015/16 & audit finding action plan
17 Mar 2015
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The brief included factors to be considered by the Committee when dealing with performance monitoring, a review of DHA 2015/16 APP and a review of its previous ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs on IT Modernisation Programme & 3rd quarter 2014/15 performance
10 Mar 2015
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on the Quarter 3 Performance Report of 2014/2015, the Quarter 3 Expenditure Report, and IT Modernisation. In relation to performance, detailed figures and percentages were presented for each of the programmes and sub-programmes. In general, it was noted that the DHA ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Sub-committee Report on proposed amendments to National Assembly Rules: Chapters 1 to 9; Rule 70 Points of Order; Deployment of security forces in National Assembly
6 Mar 2015
The Sub-committee on Review of Assembly Rules met to continue its deliberations on its Report to the Rules Committee on proposed amendments to the National Assembly Rules. Before actual deliberations got under way, Members took time to express their frustration that there were only four members in attendance. There was ...
Home Affairs
Plans & progress in relocation of Refugee Reception Offices a& on implementation of Refugee Regulations: Departmental briefing
3 Mar 2015
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on amendments to the Refugee Act and on the establishment of a refugee reception centre in Lebombo, Mpumalanga.
The DHA gave a background to legislation currently in place which governs refugee affairs. The presentation then centred on the challenges the Department ...
Home Affairs
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC): recommendation for Commissioner vacancy
24 Feb 2015
The Committee discussed the candidates to fill the IEC Commissioner vacancy which had been vacant since the resignation of IEC Chairperson, Ms Pansy Tlakula. Members had been given a shortlist of eight candidates (recommended by the Chief Justice) together with their curriculum vitaes to peruse and consider before the meeting. ...
Home Affairs
Impact of State of Nation Address on Home Affairs
17 Feb 2015
The Committee met briefly to discuss the impact of the 2015 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on the work of the Committee.
The Content Advisor of the Committee outlined some of the issues which the President had addressed in the SONAs of 2014 and 2015. In his 2014 speech, ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules of the National Assembly: Chapters 1 to 9 preliminary review: Sub-committee report, debate on dress code and secret ballots
27 Jan 2015
The subcommittee considering the review of the Rules of the National Assembly (the Rules) continued with its work on chapters 1 to 9. The Committee's draft Report set out the preliminary positions, and in some cases set out options that the full Rules Committee would take a decision on which ...
Rules of the National Assembly
National Assembly Rules review: Subcommittee deliberations
20 Jan 2015
The Committee met briefly to review the new draft of the National Assembly Rules. The Chairperson outlined the procedure and made it clear, several times, that it was not this sub-Committee who would be making the final decision on the Rules of the NA; instead, individual members of this sub-committee ...