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Civilian Secretariat for Police & IPID 2016/17 Annual Reports
4 Oct 2017
The total budget for the Civilian Secretariat was R110.6 million for the 2016/17 financial year. As of 1 March 2017, the Civilian Secretariat had exhausted 89.9 percent of its total budget. The administration programme accounted for around 40 percent of total expenditure as a result of centralised ...
Police
Situation in Philippi East; SAPS 2016/17 Annual Report
3 Oct 2017
The Committee met for its second day of hearings on the annual report of the South African Police Service (SAPS) for the 2016/17 financial year.
Beginning with the situation in Philippi East, SAPS reported that the Marikana informal settlement posed several infrastructural challenges which had exacerbated ...
Police
SAPS 2016/17 Annual Report
2 Oct 2017
The Committee met for its first day of hearings on the 2016/17 Annual Report of the SA Police Service (SAPS). Members were first briefed by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) where it was pointed out that for the first time in eight years that SAPS received ...
Police
IPID and Civilian Secretariat for Police on Quarter 1 performance
13 Sep 2017
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service (CSPS) briefed the committee on their performance during the first quarter.
IPID reported that the financial year had begun with severe budgetary restraints, and R24 million in accruals from the previous year. These accruals had accounted for ...
Police
National Development Plan recommendations for Policing: SAPS, Civilian Secretariat for Police & Civil Society briefing
12 Sep 2017
The Committee was briefed by the South African Police Service (SAPS), Civilian Secretariat for Police (CSP), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Corruption Watch (CW) on implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP).
The CSP explained its role and outlined recommendations from the NDP it had already begun implementing. ...
Police
Domestic Violence Act Reports: SAPS & Civilian Secretariat for Police briefing
6 Sep 2017
The Committee received a briefing by the Western Cape Provincial Commissioner on the theft of firearms in Mitchell’s Plain and Bellville South police stations which occurred last month. The Cluster Commander at Mitchell’s Plain reported the theft of firearms after conducting an inspection of the police station. There were a ...
Police
Central Firearms Registry on Turn-Around Strategy / Gun Owners Association / Gun Free SA & Appeal Board Members briefing
1 Sep 2017
The Committee met to hear the views of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and stakeholders of the gun trade against the backdrop of poor compliance with the country’s gun-control laws and gun owners’ failure to renew firearm licences. Participants included the South African Arms and Ammunition Dealers’ Association (SAAADA), ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Umsunduzi Municipality irregular expenditure: IDT briefing on remedial action
30 May 2017
The Independent Development Trust (IDT) appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Public Works to shed light on the irregularities uncovered on IDT projects implemented at the Umsunduzi Local Municipality (ULM), where systematic corruption had been identified following a forensic investigation and a tightening up of the whistle-blowing processes.
The IDT ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Use of consultants: Public Works & PMTE briefing
23 May 2017
The Department of Public Works (DPW) with the Deputy Minister in attendance, convened with the Portfolio Committee on Public Works to present the use of consultants by the Department and by the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE).
In November 2011, the then Minister commissioned a rapid diagnostic on the state ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Department of Public Works Budget
9 May 2017
Relevant documents:
Committee Report on 2017/18 Budget and Annual Performance Plans of Department of Public Works
[available once published Tabled Committee Reports]
From the outset of the meeting the Committee spent a considerable time in discussion on whether to proceed with consideration of the Draft Committee Budget Vote Report. ...