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Sport, Arts and Culture
Federation of Dance Sport SA & Dance Sport School League
20 Feb 2018
The Dance Sport School League (DSSL) and the Federation of Dance Sport South Africa (DSSA) briefed the Committee on the funding challenges they faced, the involvement of the Department of Sport and Recreation, accreditation and affiliation, the curriculum, the benefits of dance sport at schools, and how dance sport was ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation challenges; with Deputy Minister
14 Feb 2018
Documents handed out: Auditor-General letter; Organogram [not available for public]
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to be updated on a wide range of outstanding items from the Department.
The Chairperson requested that the Department’s organogram be explained before starting the presentation, in order ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Sports and Recreation SA Quarter 2 performance; Ministerial Committees of Inquiry; SASREA Board Annual Report; with Minister and Deputy Minister
13 Feb 2018
The Minister of Sport and Recreation, Mr Thulas Nxesi, and the Deputy Minister, Mr Gert Oosthuizen, briefed the Portfolio Committee on Sports and Recreation’s on the Department’s Quarter 2 Report and presented the report on the status of the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee and FNB Stadium Committees of ...
Water and Sanitation
Western and Eastern Cape drought crisis
7 Feb 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation held a lively meeting on the current drought in the country to discuss the current status and challenges. The Committee was joined by Members from several Portfolio Committees who had been invited to attend the presentations.
The intention of the meeting was for ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Reports; First Term Committee Programme
22 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation adopted three reports: Report on the oversight visit to Limpopo, Report on World Water Day Summit and Expo, and Draft Committee Programme.
Sport, Arts and Culture
Swimming SA: status report
15 Nov 2017
Swimming South Africa (SSA) briefed the Committee on its governance, transformation, financials and sponsorship, programmes including development and school programmes and preparation for upcoming international events. The presentation from SSA highlighted issues of governance, transformation, sponsorship, programmes and preparation for the upcoming events. The SSA Strategy for 2017 to 2020 ...
Water and Sanitation
Water Master Plan; Water and Sanitation Bill; Economic Regulator for Water: DWS progress report; with Minister
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) reported that the new Water Master Plan would assist it in providing water and sanitation services and to establish a consolidated plan for water and sanitation management to meet future needs. In order to achieve this goal, the DWS would be working with ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Sport and recreation infrastructure delivery: SRSA, COGTA, Treasury, SALGA inputs
7 Nov 2017
The Committee received briefings from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), National Treasury (NT), the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) and Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) on the utilisation of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) for sport and ...
Water and Sanitation
Contested audit findings 2016/17 by DWS: Auditor General briefing; BRRR
2 Nov 2017
Fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) had doubled by R64m. This was reported by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) while providing clarity to the Portfolio Committee on the contestation DWS of the irregular expenditure identified in its 2016/17 audit outcomes. The AG said that ...
Water and Sanitation
Special Investigating Unit investigations of Water & Sanitation Department 2014-2017; National Treasury on DWS Debt Management; BRRR
1 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: National Treasury: Progress on the Overdraft of the WTE [awaited]; Special Investigating Unit: Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation[not available to public]
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) did not seem to have the venom of the cobra which was portrayed in its logo. This was the ...