Home Affairs
Home Affairs Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR)
21 Oct 2014
The Committee Researcher presented the draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report.
The Chairperson remarked that findings are statements of facts and recommendations are plans of action to address these findings. Each finding must have a corresponding recommendation. The Chairperson said that the BRRR should only addresses issues within the allotted ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Parliament of Republic of South Africa vs Hon F Shivambu and 19 others
20 Oct 2014
Report of the meeting to follow
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Parliament of Republic of South Africa vs Hon F Shivambu and 19 others
20 Oct 2014
Three witnesses testified before the Committee: the Head of ICT in Parliament, the Sergeant at Arms and the Deputy Chief Whip of the majority party. The Chief Whip of the Opposition Party was supposed to testify but she was attending the funeral of the late MP Mr Watson. Further witnesses ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Parliament vs Hon F Shivambu and 19 others
15 Oct 2014
The opposition political parties namely DA, UDM, IFP and EFF wrote a letter to the Chairperson expressing their concern on the way in which the hearing was proceeding. Matters raised in the letter include taking into consideration the submission by Mr Malema, the need for the Committee to call witnesses, ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing; DHA Annual Report briefing
14 Oct 2014
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) provided an overview of the audit outcomes and other findings in respect of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the other entities in its portfolio for the 2013-14 financial year. The audit outcomes over the past three years showed that there had been ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
2014 Register of Members Interests: adoption
17 Sep 2014
The Committee dealt with the minutes of the 8 of July 2014 at length. The contention was that there was an election of a Committee whip, which the opposition parties felt that seeing that there was no rule providing for one in any Parliamentary Committee; there could have been no ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs on First Quarter Expenditure and Performance Reports
16 Sep 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs was briefed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on its first quarter expenditure and performance, with 69% of the targets being achieved in three different programmes. Achievements included the approval of user specifications for the National Identity System, the issue of 1.6 million ...
Home Affairs
Audit reports as oversight tool: Office of Auditor-General of South Africa briefing
9 Sep 2014
The Auditor General’s (AG) Office briefed the Committee on how better to understand the audit outcomes of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The objective of the briefing was to provide Members with the necessary information and guidance on the role of the AG’s Office, to enable them to execute ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Matters arising from last meeting on composition of Committee, Parliamentary Legal Adviser's briefing, Nomination of Initiator
4 Sep 2014
The Chairperson clarified the membership of the Committee, and the presence of some alternate Members. The Committee spent considerable time debating whether a letter addressed to the EFF by the Speaker could be discussed as an additional agenda item, and it was eventually decided to deal with it under “Matters ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: input by Black Management Forum & Business Unity South Africa
3 Sep 2014
The Black Management Forum made a submission on the national minimum wage (NMW). The BMF acknowledged that South Africa’s inequality does not only have a racial dimension, but was also growing within the black community. If left unattended, it had potential to reverse the gains that have been made in ...