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NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: adoption; Border Management Authority Bill: discussion, with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Sep 2017
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA), presented the submissions gathered from the public comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill alongside the Department’s response to the comments. Some of the clarifications given by the Department related to the definition of dependants, to which the Department clarified that the Refugees Act had ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Education Sector Report: AG briefing
28 Jun 2017
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Select Committee on Education and Recreation on the outcomes of the 2015/16 Education Sector Report. It was reported that around R10 billion is spent every year on infrastructure for basic education. The prominent role of “implementing agents” in partnership with provincial education ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Learner Transport Memorandum of Understanding; ICT in schools, with Deputy Minister of Basic Education
21 Jun 2017
The Department of Basic Education and the Department of Transport briefed the Committee on progress made thus far with the provision of learner transport. The Deputy Minister of Basic Education was in attendance. The key objective of the policy being presented to the Committee was to achieve a proper safe ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: public submissions; SASSA & NDA Annual Performance Plan
20 Jun 2017
The Select Committee met with Parliamentary and State legal advisers, as well as a delegation from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), to finalise the Refugees Amendment Bill. However, the bill could not be finalised because some submissions had been received late, and the Committee, the legal advisors and the ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Water and Sanitation Annual Performance Plan, with Deputy Minister
13 Jun 2017
In her opening remarks, the Chairperson said the Committee is hearing from the media that the Department of Water and Sanitation is bankrupt and this needs to be clarified. DWS also needs to inform the Committee on what it is doing to aid the provinces affected by the drought. ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Home Affairs Annual Performance Plan; Mbombela Home Affairs temporary closure
6 Jun 2017
The Department addressed the recent closure of the Mbombela Home Affairs office for three days due to a sheriff attaching furniture and computers worth R150 000 at the Mbombela office. The Department got the goods back and is now taking steps to fix the communication errors with the Office of ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
SRSA & Institute for Drug Free Sport on their Annual Performance Plans; with Deputy Minister
31 May 2017
The Deputy Minister of Sports and Recreation South Africa (SRSA), Mr Gert Oosthuizen, noted in his opening remarks that no significant changes were envisaged during the 2017/18 financial year. Also, there would be no substantial changes in the service delivery environment that would have an impact on the Department’s operations. ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Health on its Annual Performance Plan, with Deputy Minister
30 May 2017
The Department of Health (DoH) told the Select Committee on Social Services that it had made a positive impact on the health sector, such as increasing South Africans’ average life expectancy from 57.1 years to 63.3 years in the space of six years. In addition, there had been a decrease ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture on its Annual Performance Plan: meeting postponed
24 May 2017
The Chairperson opened the meeting and expressed her disappointment at the absence of the Minister or Deputy Minister as there was a need for the political leadership to be present for the Annual Performance Plan (APP) presentation. She said she could understand if they were absent for other meetings, but ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Human Settlements on its Annual Performance Plan
23 May 2017
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) briefed the Select Committee on Social Services on its Strategic plan and 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP
The budgets for Gauteng, Free State and the Eastern Cape were only approved last week. This was because of the issues which had surfaced in these provinces. ...