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Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence & Military Veterans 1st Quarter 2014 Performance
10 Sep 2014
In detailing the purpose of the Defence and Military Veterans Portfolio Committee to a visiting delegation, a committee members noted that the new Defence Review proposes that the defence committee meets behind closed doors like the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence.
The Department of Defence presented its Administration Programme overview, ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Amendment Bill: briefing by Mr D Maynier & response from Department and Parliamentary Legal Advisor; Department briefing on current policy and legislative environment
27 Aug 2014
The presentation on the Defence Amendment Bill [PMB 8 - 2013] covered the reasons and background to the Amendment Bill, projects that were a cause for concern, the proposed changes, the various amendments that were to be proposed as well as the way in which the potential Bill would empower ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Committee Report on Defence and Military Veterans 2014 Budget
10 Jul 2014
The Committee met to vote on the Budget vote 22 for the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.
At the outset, a Member said that one of the recommendations was incoherent, in that it said that the Department of Defence was under-funded, but that the Committee supported the budget. If ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Budget Vote Process & Sectoral Analysis of Defence and Military Veterans: briefing by Committee Staff; Castle Control Board & Armscor on their 2014 Strategic Plans
2 Jul 2014
The Committee received a briefing on the sectoral analysis of the two departments -- the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) -- and the two entities for which the Committee is responsible, Armscor and the Castle Control Board. Armscor also presented its corporate plan.
There ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Election of Chairperson
25 Jun 2014
Mr Malusi Stanley Motimele was elected as the Chairperson of the Committee.
Defence
JC Defence: Committee Legacy Report
12 Mar 2014
The Committee Members met to finalise the Legacy Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, which had first been presented on the 27th of February 2014. At the previous meeting the Chairpersons had asked the Members to submit written proposals on the restructuring and content of the Report. However ...
Defence
JSC Defence: Committee Programme; Letters from the President; Committee Legacy Report
26 Feb 2014
The consideration of the Committee programme was affected by the unavailability of the senior management of the Department of Defence. This was highlighted as a concern by various Members of the Committee, because issues such as the Defence Review and presentation by the Transformation Office needed to be finalised. The ...