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Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works Turnaround Strategy: progress report with Minister
8 Mar 2016
The Department briefed the Committee on the progress made on the Turnaround Strategy in the presence of the Minister of Public Works, Mr Thulas Nxesi. There are a number of notable achievements after the implementation of the Turnaround Strategy and these include stabilisation in management and leadership, movement of Property Management ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Construction Industry Development Board on its 2014/15 Annual Report: meeting postponed
2 Mar 2016
The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) was supposed to brief the Committee on its Annual Report for the 2014/15 financial year. The Committee decided that the meeting should be cancelled and rescheduled instead, after the delegations from the Department of Public Works were not present at the meeting. Members also ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Oceans Economy programme & Green Building framework of Department of Public Works
1 Mar 2016
The Department of Public Works together with its Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) briefed the Committee on the Oceans Economy programme and the Green Building framework. In 2010, the ocean contributed approximately R54 billion to South Africa’s GDP and accounted for approximately 316 000 jobs. The ocean has the potential ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Independent Development Trust on its 2014/15 Annual Report, with Deputy Minister present
16 Feb 2016
The Independent Development Trust (IDT) received a disclaimer audit opinion in 2014/15 financial year and this was after 11 consecutive unqualified opinions, spanning from 2002/03 to 2012/13. The basis of the disclaimer audit opinion for 2014/15 had to do with a number of factors and these included: Lack of sufficient ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4B-15]: adoption; Department of Public Works on its 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2015 performance
2 Feb 2016
The Committee adopted the Expropriation Bill with opposition from the Democratic Alliance, United Democratic Movement and Economic Freedom Fighters while Inkatha Freedom Party abstained from voting.
The DA explained that the party was opposed to the Bill because the current definitions of “expropriation” and “property” contained ambiguity and therefore still ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4B-2015]: consideration
26 Jan 2016
The Committee continued with deliberations on its proposed amendments to the Expropriation Bill. Members were afforded an opportunity to express the views of their political parties on a clause-by-clause basis. The Democratic Alliance was opposed to the definition of “expropriation” claiming that the definition was vague and still required further ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
3 Nov 2015
The Committee continued with the deliberation on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A UDM MP wanted to know how it was possible to make reference to sections 12 and ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
22 Sep 2015
The Committee was told that five strategic goals had been identified by the Minister for the Department of Public Works (DPW). These were the creation of six million work opportunities through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), operationalisation of the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE), the operationalisation of the Governance ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
8 Sep 2015
The Deputy Minister of Public Works presented the latest version of the Expropriation Bill, with some amendments that had been proposed by the Committee or other commentators at earlier sessions. Members firstly wanted to clarify whether this Bill was not preventing other spheres of government from exercising expropriation powers, and ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: deliberations with Deputy Minister
1 Sep 2015
The Bill incorporating the proposed amendments was not yet ready so the Deputy Minister discussed with the Committee some of the proposed changes to the Bill that had been agreed upon so far.
Members raised concerns about the variation in judgements in Magistrates Courts; the potential definition of expropriation; definition ...