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Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B12-2015]: briefing
12 May 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT) briefed the Committee on the Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill (B12-2015). The Bill sought to give effect to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006 and the Work in Fishing Convention of 2007 (“C188”), and provide for matters related to them. These two conventions had been adopted ...
Transport
Department of Transport, PRASA, SAMSA, SACAA, C-BRTA & Ports Regulator on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
21 Apr 2015
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Transport and its entities on their annual performance plans, strategic plans and budgets.
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA) said it had embarked on systematic and sustained programmes to redress some of the legacy issues of under-investment in public transport infrastructure ...
Transport
Road Accident Fund; Airports Company SA; Air Traffic and Navigation Services on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
17 Apr 2015
The Deputy Minister was in attendance as several entities from the Department of Transport presented their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans. The Department of Transport is going through a restructuring process, and the Director General outlined the restructuring plans that aim at improving performance in: public entity oversight; strategy planning; ...
Transport
Road Transport Infringement Agency, Road Traffic Management Corporation; & Railway Safety Regulator on 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
16 Apr 2015
The Road Transport Infringement Agency (RTIA) and the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) briefed the Committee in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Transport, Ms Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga. The Deputy Minister apologised for inconvenience that might have been caused by the Department of Transport (the Department) delegation who could ...
Transport
Department of Transport on 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
24 Mar 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans (APP) 2015/16. The Minister said the Road Infrastructure Network had the potential to unlock the economic potential in South Africa, particularly in rural areas. The National Transport Master Plan 2050 (NATMAP) was part of the ...
Transport
Department of Transport response to Budgetary Review & Recommendations Report, in presence of Deputy Minister
17 Mar 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT), in the presence of the Deputy Minister, responded to the recommendations of the Committee in its last Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). Some of the comments had already been addressed in the DoT's Strategic Plan 2015-2020 and Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16, tabled in ...
Transport
Mpumalanga Transport Campaign Steering Committee briefing
10 Mar 2015
The Portfolio on Transport received briefings from ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) and Mpumalanga Transport Campaign Steering Committee (TCSC). The AMSA presentation was to provide insight into its operations in the local steel industry, and to identify areas where challenges needed to be addressed. The TCSC presentation aimed to highlight the ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Abducted Nigerian Girls (#bring back the girls campaign): ministerial briefing; SADC Gender Protocol: Commission on Gender Equality briefing
4 Mar 2015
The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation updated the Multi-Party Women’s Caucus on the government’s role in securing the safe return of the 230 girls kidnapped last year by Boko Haram. She stressed the complexity of the issue and noted that after some girls had managed to escape and ...
Transport
Draft Road Accidents Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill; Legislative Programme, 2nd and 3rd quarter performance reports: Department of Transport briefings, in presence of Minister
3 Mar 2015
The Minister of Transport, Ms Dipuo Peters, was present for the first part of the meeting, when she briefed the Committee shortly on the fact that the Department was in the course of preparing the Road Accidents Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill, but it was not yet ready for presentation to ...
Transport
Department of Transport 2015 legislative programme briefing; Committee Programme
24 Feb 2015
The Committee convened to hear a presentation from the Department of Transport (DoT) on the legislative programme for 2015. It was noted that there were three Bills that had received priority and that
would hopefully be presented to Parliament in the first quarter of 2015. They were the Merchant Shipping ...