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Basic Education
Department of Basic Education Quarter 3 performance
19 Feb 2019
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on its third quarter performance and some of the aspects highlighted were:
Basic Education
Committee Report on Department's Quarter 1 & 2 performance; High Level Panel & Committee Annual Reports
4 Dec 2018
The Committee met to consider and adopt recent reports and minutes of meetings. The Chairperson urged the Members to study the documents to ensure no errors slipped through, as this had happened recently and had been a cause of embarrassment. The Members supported her request.
The Chairperson took the Members ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
SA's Fathers report: Sonke Gender Justice briefing
29 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on the Multi-Party Women Caucus met to receive briefs from Sonke Gender Justice on the State of SA’s Fathers Report; the Department of Social Development and the Women Ministry on the new South African Integrated Programme of Action Addressing Violence Against Women and Children and to adopt ...
Basic Education
Schools that Work; Early Grade Reading; 25 Year Review
27 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department on Basic Education on Early Grade Reading Studies; the Schools That Work Survey II and the 25 Year Review of Basic Education. The Minister had tasked the National Education Evaluation and Development Unit to conduct a study into why some schools performed better ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education Quarter 2 performance
13 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to be briefed on the Department’s second quarter performance for the 2018/19 financial year. The presentation addressed major highlights for the quarter before delving into the performance with regard to the specific indicators of the five programmes of the Department. ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 2 performance; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency in its Quarter 2 performance achieved 20 (69%) of its 29 targets, while nine (31%) were not achieved. There was an improvement by 9% for targets achieved from Quarter 1. The Department spent 44.9% of the adjusted annual budget by end of Quarter ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA, PSC, CPSI, National School of Government Quarter 2 performance; with Deputy Minister
7 Nov 2018
The Public Service Commission (PSC), the National School of Government (NSG), the Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI) and the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA), briefed the Portfolio Committee on their performance during the second quarter of the 2018/19 financial year.
The Committee was impressed with the work ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Abuse of women and children by religious leaders/sector: CRL Commission briefing
30 Oct 2018
The Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Commission (CRL Rights Commission) presented its recommendations to prevent the commercialisation of religion and the abuse and exploitation of people’s belief systems. There is a lack of proper regulation to control churches that are operating outside of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Gender Transformation in Tertiary institutions; Sex workers wellbeing: CGE briefing; BRRR
23 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Budgetary Review and recommendations report (BRRR) and it was to be briefed by the Commission on Gender Equality on its report on Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions Hearings (University of Free State, Johannesburg and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 1 performance
4 Sep 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) met with the Committee to present its first quarter report, and said there had been many cases of sexual harassment during the review period. It had made progress by extending its engagements with various government departments -- the Departments of Social Development, Higher Education ...