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Basic Education
South African Council for Educators & UMALUSI 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; Readiness to administer Sign Language Examinations 2018
27 Mar 2018
Members received a presentation from the South African Council for Educators (SACE) on its 2017/18 strategic and Annual Performance Plans and budget as well as a presentation from Umalusi on its Annual Performance Plan. Umalusi also made a presentation on the state of readiness to quality assure South African Sign ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Traditional Courts Bill: Commission for Gender Equality submission; CGE submissions to Parliament
20 Mar 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality provided an outline of its role with regards to legislation. The Commission took members through specific clauses of the Traditional Courts Bill and pointed out areas that needed to be attended to. The Commission objected to an intention to ‘preserve’ tradition instead of looking at ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality on 3rd Quarter Performance
13 Mar 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) started to brief the Committee on its performance and the challenges during the third quarter, but were brought to a halt when Members complained that the contents were very broad and it would be more relevant to discuss legislation that would help to improve ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
South African Law Reform Commission Report: Adult Prostitution: response by stakeholders
5 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women’s Caucus arranged a summit during which 30 stakeholders and interested parties provided responses to the Adult Prostitution Report produced by the South African Law Reform Commission on behalf of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Written submissions had been submitted in 2017.
The Chairperson indicated that ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA, National School of Government, Centre for Public Service Innovation + Public Service Commission Quarter 3 performance; with Deputy Minister
28 Feb 2018
The Public Service Commission presented on its third quarter performance.
93% of its planned targets were achieved in quarter three. A vacancy rate of 8.6% was maintained, 83% of the grievances finalised, 73% of public administration cases finalised and 100% of the National Anti-Corruption Hotline cases were referred. The remaining ...
Basic Education
ICT Roll-Out in Schools; School Governing Board (SGB) Elections; with Minister and Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the current preparations for school governing body elections, which would take place from March 2018. The complexity of the election process was highlighted, especially with regard to uniformity across the provinces. Although the overall percentage of readiness was good, it ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Implementation Plan for International Conference on Women and Changing World of Work
14 Feb 2018
The Multi-Party Women’s Caucus received a briefing by the Content Adviser on the draft MPWC Implementation Plan that followed the International Women’s Conference (IWC) on “Women in the Changing World of Work” held in August 2017. The draft action plan was designed to serve as guidance for the actions of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency Quarter 2 performance
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Quarter 2 performance to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency.
Out of the 27 planned targets, 11 were achieved and 16 were not achieved. The 2nd quarter’s performance was the same as the 1st quarter despite there being more ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill: inter-department coordination; with DIRCO Deputy Minister
13 Feb 2018
Documents handed out: State Security Agency presentation (classified); DIRCO (no document provided)
There had been an intention to hold a discussion with the Public Protector on certain media statements and allegations around concealment of evidence during investigations, but that matter was shelved prior to the start of the meeting.
The ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency progress report on Audit Findings and BRRR, with Minister
14 Nov 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Budget Review and Recommendation Action Plan, responding to questions, comments and recommendations by the Portfolio Committee. The presentation provided insight into action plans for findings related to the Internal Audit, Human Resource Management, Internal Control and Risk Management and Financial Management. ...