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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill: DWYPD briefing
22 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee was briefed by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) on the amendment of the NYDA Bill.
The proposal to amend the Act was intended mainly to address the challenges related to the execution of its broad legislated mandate. It was also geared ...
Police
Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Amendment Bill: adoption; with Deputy Minister
18 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Police convened to adopt the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities (POCDATARA) Amendment Bill [B15-2022] and its report on the Bill.
The Chairperson said that adoption of the Bill had been a tough process that ...
Police
Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Amendment Bill: proposed amendments; with Deputy Minister
16 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting the Parliamentary Legal Advisor took the Committee through the A-list of the Committee's proposed amendments to Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Amendment Bill. They looked at the B-version of the Bill in which all of these proposed amendments had been included. ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Update on programmes related to GBVF: GBVF Council briefing; Supplementary report on the filling of CGE vacancies; with Minister
15 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities received a briefing on the Secretariat on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) and an update on the proposed National Council on GBVF. The Committee also discussed a supplementary report on filling vacancies on the Commission ...
Police
Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Amendment Bill: further deliberations; Public Participation Report; with Deputy Minister
11 Nov 2022
The Committee continued its deliberations on the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities (POCDATARA) Amendment Bill.
It adopted the report on the public participation hearings on the Bill, as well as the proposed changes based on the comments received and the Committee's earlier ...
Police
Lt Colonel Kinnear Investigation: IPID, SAPS & DPCI Input; with Minister and Deputy Minister
9 Nov 2022
The Committee convened in Parliament to receive a briefing by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) on the investigation into the murder of Lt Col Charl Kinnear, as well as a briefing by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) on the progress made with the IPID recommendations on the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Progress made on SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and amending Article 20(1) of the CEDAW: DWYPD & DIRCO Input
8 Nov 2022
The Committee met virtually to be briefed by the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation on (i) amendments to Article 8 of the Southern African Development Protocol on Gender Development, which outrightly prohibited marriage between people under the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Q1 2022/23 Performance; Progress report on Presidential Youth Employment Interventions; with Minister
4 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on their performance for the first quarter of the 2022/23 financial year. The Presidential Youth Initiative (PYI) also provided a progress report on the Presidential youth employment interventions.
Before the NYDA made its presentation, the ...
Police
Classification IPID Report on murder of Lt. Col Kinnear; POCDATARA Bill deliberations; with Deputy Minister
2 Nov 2022
The Committee was briefed in a virtual meeting on the classification of the report of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) on the murder of Lt Col Charl Kinnear, the former section commander for the Western Cape anti-gang unit.
The Committee was critical of the failure ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: Recommendation & Committee Report
26 Oct 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities considered and adopted its report on candidates recommended to fill vacancies in the Commission for Gender Equality.