Telecommunications and Postal Services
Grant payment challenges and readiness: SA Post Office briefing; IKAMVA Bill: deliberations
28 Aug 2018
The South African Post Office admitted it had a tendency to underestimate customer care.
It made this revelation when the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services was trying to understand why people were complaining of not getting information and assistance from the entity when they had complaints.
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Telecommunications and Postal Services
IKAMVA Bill: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services met to deliberate on the IKamva National Bill. The discussion mainly centred on the definitions, the number of members required on the board, disqualification of politicians and public officials from the board, and the role of the Department in relation to the ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
IKAMVA National E-Skills Institute Bill: consideration of submissions
14 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services could not consider and deliberate on submissions on the Ikamva National E-Skills Institute Bill. The Committee noted that it had received only four submissions but they were not substantive. The Chairperson pointed out that the Committee had followed all the constitutional procedures ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Department Quarter 3 & 4 performance; iKamva National e-Skills Bill: briefing
29 May 2018
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) briefed the Committee on its performance during the last two quarters of the 2017/18 financial year. It had achieved 76% of its targets in the third quarter, and 74% in the fourth, with the main reason for non-achievement being inter-dependencies.
Overall, the ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SA Connect progress; USAASA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
22 May 2018
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) updated Members on the progress made on SA Connect, and confirmed that it was working together with state-owned entities, Broadband Infraco (BBI) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to rollout SA Connect. The Committee was informed of the scope of Phase ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Ikamva National E-Skills Institute Bill: briefing with Minister
15 May 2018
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services said the IKAMVA National E-Skills Institute (iNeSI) Bill sought to integrate the Department’s three e-skills development-related components -- the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (Nemisa), the e-Skills Institute (e-Si) and the Institute for Space and Software Applications (ISSA). The Bill was ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Telecommunications and Postal Services Budget: Committee Report, with Deputy Minister
8 May 2018
The Committee decided not to adopt its budget vote report after discussion during the meeting revealed that there were discrepancies and confusion in respect of some of the figures, and these needed to be corrected. It also told the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa Universal Service and ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SAPO & USAASA & BBI Annual Performance Plan
24 Apr 2018
The Committee heard briefings from the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA), the South African Post Office(SAPO) and Broadband Infraco (BBI) on their strategic and annual performance plans for 2018/19.
USAASA said the first of its strategic objectives was improved risk management services. The second was increased ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Status Update on SASSA Readiness: SAPO briefing; SAPO Turnaround, with Minister
20 Mar 2018
The Committee heard a status update from SAPO on its SASSA Readiness and a briefing on SAPO going forward.
SAPO: Status Update on SASSA Readiness
The Committee was concerned about the delay in the issuing of a banking license to the Post Bank. What. What were the Department’s concerns ...
Finance, Economic Opportunities and Tourism (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill 2018: Provincial Treasury
15 Mar 2018
Members went through the Draft Committee Report on Vote 3: Provincial Treasury. The Committee touched on various aspects of the Report which still needed attention such as the requested funded and unfunded vacancy lists, co -funding received by municipalities, Kannaland municipality’s progress report on the implementation of GRAP, possible legislative ...