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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Victims Charter Report 2016, Painting over Old Cracks 2015, Ship without a Captain 2015 reports: Departmental responses
28 Jun 2017
“Painting over Old Cracks” was the first report presented by the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE).They explained that since the National Council on Gender Based Violence (NCGBV) had stopped functioning in 2014, the Department of Social Development (DSD) had been the department coordinating matters related to GBV. However, the status ...
Basic Education
Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL); History as a Compulsory Subject; Jobs for Cash, Protests; with Minister
27 Jun 2017
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the implementation of the Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL) and the introduction of History as a compulsory subject.
The DBE Director-General said that 27% of public schools nationally are implementing the Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL) in Grades ...
Basic Education
Committee Reports
20 Jun 2017
Apologies were received from the Minister, Ms Angie Motshekga.
The Committee adopted outstanding minutes of meetings as well as Reports prepared after oversight visits. All minutes and Reports were adopted, some with minor amendments. There was discussion on the absence of the Minister in the meeting; and also, discussion on ...
Basic Education
Inclusive Education and Special Education: DBE Progress Report; with Deputy Minister
30 May 2017
The Department of Basic Education discussed the progress the Department has made in the sector of Inclusive Education and Special Education. Some of the issues raised at the meeting include:
• The uncertainty about the number of children with special needs who are not in schools and have been placed ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Committee Report on Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality Budget
23 May 2017
The Committee revised and edited its Draft Report on Women in the Presidency on Annual Performance Plan (Budget Vote 13) of the Department of Women in the Presidency and the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) for financial year 2017/18, dated 23 May 2017.
An area of concern was regarding oversight ...
Basic Education
Committee Report on Basic Education Budget
17 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education convened for consideration of their draft report on Budget Vote 14: Basic Education, together with the Annual Performance Plans of the Department of Basic Education and its Statutory Bodies dated 3 May 2017.
Basic Education
SAHRC Report on National Investigative Hearing into Impact of Protest Action on Right to Basic Education; Committee Report on Basic Education Budget, with Minister present
16 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education convened with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to consider the report of the National Investigative Hearing into the impact of protest-related action on the right to a basic education in South Africa.
The Commission stated that the majority of the problems cited ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister
9 May 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency, which would be referred to as the Department henceforth, made a number of presentations. The first presentation was on the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT), which was about measuring the performance of the Department on particular practices. The purpose of these measurements was ...
Basic Education
Umalusi and SACE on their Annual Performance Plan
4 May 2017
The South African Council for Educators (SACE) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on its 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP). Special attention was paid to the issue of fraudulent qualifications. SACE as an institution did not have internal capacity to be dealing with these issues and the need for ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education on its Annual Performance Plan, Deputy Minister present
3 May 2017
The Deputy Minister of Basic Education told the Committee he anticipated that by the end of the current administration, learning and teaching would be information technology (IT) based. The biggest challenge would be connectivity. Giving an overview of his Department’s portfolio, he outlined the infrastructure initiatives, the rationalisation and merger ...