Defence and Military Veterans
Military veterans benefits: Department of Military Veterans status report
2 Nov 2016
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the implementation of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) and service level agreements (SLAs), and the challenges that impeded service delivery to military veterans. The Committee was updated on the progress on the implementation of the MOUs and SLAs between the ...
Joint Standing on Intelligence
Inspector General of Intelligence appointment: shortlisting of candidates by JSCI sub-committee
1 Nov 2016
The Committee met to shortlist candidates to be interviwed for the vacant post of Inspector General of Intelligence. The Committee received 17 applications but only 12 met the minimum advertised requirements. There was a brief debate on whether the shortlist should have 10 or 12 names. The Committee eventually settled ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its 2015/2016 Annual Report; Defence Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
19 Oct 2016
The General Defence Account (GDA) received an unqualified audit opinion. The auditors did not raise any material findings on the usefulness and reliability of the reported performance information for pre-determined programs such as Force employment, Air and Landward defence. However, the Department received a qualified opinion on ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans on its 2015/16 Annual Report
18 Oct 2016
The Department of Military Veterans (DMV) reported having underspent by R284million for 2015/16. The key challenges the DMV faced were mainly related to the paying of invoices, the increase of recipients for education support, invoices not being systematically submitted for health and wellness support, issues with the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence & Military Veterans, Armscor & Castle Control audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the 2015/2016 audit outcomes of the: Department of Defence (DoD), Department of Military Veterans (DMV), Armscor and the Castle Control Board (CCB). There was a general improvement in the outcomes, ash the CCB and Armscor received a clean audit, the ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission; Military Ombud; Department of Defence on MSDS Intake
9 Sep 2016
Relevant documents:
Media statement on statistics of case released by Military Ombud Lt Gen (Ret) Temba Matanzima
Annexure
The Defence Force Service Commission reported that the main challenge was lack of funding in relation to the Defence Review, as well as the limited power of the Commission.
The essence of ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans on its Jan-Jun 2016/17 performance
7 Sep 2016
The Department of Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the fourth quarter 2015/16 performance and 1st quarter 2016 performance, indicating the targets and achievements for each of the programmes. Overall, in the fourth quarter the Department was committed to achieving 20 targeted performance indicators ,of which it managed to achieve nine ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Information Systems modernisation: SITA briefing; Committee Third Term programme
24 Aug 2016
A delegation from the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on the process of modernising the defence information systems, indicating what it faced in the process, highlighting old and disparate systems across government and how SITA would be addressing the issues. The SITA mandate and approach was outlined, ...
Joint Standing on Intelligence
Shortlisting of candidates for Inspector General of Intelligence post
22 Apr 2016
The Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence recommended six candidates for the post of the Inspector General of Intelligence.
Defence and Military Veterans
Progress Made with Implementation of Ministerial Medical Task Team recommendations to address challenges in South African Military Health Services: Department of Defence briefing
16 Mar 2016
The Department of Defence briefed the Defence and Military Veterans Portfolio Committee on the progress report of the Ministerial Medical Task Team. This had been formed after certain complaints, which had made specific reference to health care professionals such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists in the Department, had been raised ...