Delmaine Chesley Christians

Committee appearances

• Department of Sport, Arts and Culture 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan 2 Jun 2021

  Ms D Christians (DA) noted the R20 million set aside in the 2021/22 budget for the Monument Flag Project. In light of the outcry about the large number of unemployed battling artists who have lost income and their livelihood. Can the Department not rather redirect that money to assist the ...

• DSD, SASSA & NDA 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan 1 Jun 2021

  Ms D Christians (DA, Northern Cape) noted that what stood out during the presentation was that the first presenter noted that DSD and its services are there to reach people in the country effectively. But ironically in places like Barkly West in the Northern Cape, the SASSA offices have been ...

• Lessons learnt in respect of multimodal teaching and learning; 2021 registration for universities & TVET colleges; Progress made with NSFAS appeals 26 May 2021

  Ms D Christians (DA, Northern Cape) acknowledged that 2020 was a hard year for many educational institutions in the country. Online learning was the new way of education globally, and the Department should have shared in detail how this would be ensured, especially with COVID and the inequalities that existed ...

• Department of Science and Innovation 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan 19 May 2021

  Ms D Christians (DA, Northern Cape) said that there had been some serious budget cuts for research, especially for intellectual property (IP) management. Considering the approaching COVID-19 third wave, would one be seeing a complete vaccine roll out and perhaps see most of population vaccinated by winter through SA's own ...

• DHET 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan 12 May 2021

  Ms D Christians (DA, Northern Cape) said that Cabinet had approved a reduction of R24.6 billion in the baseline budget, of which R6.8 billion was removed from NSFAS loans and bursaries, R5 billion from university subsidies; and R947 million from TVET college infrastructure. Her main concern was the budget reduction ...

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Plenary appearances

• RESPONDING TO URGENCY TO COMBAT REALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Subject for Discussion) 11 Mar 2020

  Hon Chairperson, hon members, fellow South Africans, climate across the world is changing, and the truth is, humans are responsible.

  The planet has slowly become warmer, more specifically between the years 1880 and 2012. Land and surface temperatures show an increase of approximately 1,1C and current temperatures are rising at ...

• VOTE 17 - SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT - PUT. 6 Dec 2019

  Deputy Chairperson, recently during the portfolio committee meeting Members of Parliament voiced their doubts over the

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