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Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
IEC input on enhanced party funding regulation
17 Aug 2017
The IEC Deputy Chairperson said that the IEC believes that it is doing a good job of managing elections but to take on the administration of an enhanced political party funding system would be a bridge too far and could impact negatively on its ability to run free and fair ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Review of Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act: public hearings day 2
16 Aug 2017
The public hearings on political party funding continued. Key issues that arose included the concept of levelling the playing field. Discussion revolved around what it meant in the context of political party funding and to what extent a level playing field had to include those parties that had not met ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Review of Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act: public hearings day 1
15 Aug 2017
The Chairperson explained that the Committee would receive oral submissions from those who had made written submissions on the funding of political parties. He explained that the mandate of the Committee was to look at the current legislation and after the inputs and deliberations, the Committee would have to decide ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties
Summary of Submissions; Committee Bill drafting; Programme
3 Aug 2017
The Ad Hoc Committee received 16 written submissions and it decided that all those who had made submissions would be invited to the public hearings from 15 to 18 August 2017. The Committee decided that the Chairperson would be flexible about the time available to each presenter to ensure that ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Committee Report on Department of Justice, Correctional Services & Office of Chief Justice Budgets
16 May 2017
The Committee considered the draft reports on the budgets for the Department of Justice, the Department of Correctional Services and the Office of the Chief Justice.
The Chairperson headed a page by page analysis of the three documents. In many of the documents, minor changes were required, either to grammar ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Pollsmoor court order: Department of Correctional Services progress report; Committee Report on Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill
9 May 2017
The meeting began with consideration of the report on the proposed amendments to the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill [B2-2017]. Corrections to the bill were highlighted by a state law adviser. All six ANC Members of the Committee in attendance voted in favour of the adoption of the report, while the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Office of Chief Justice & Judicial Administration on its Annual Performance Plan
3 May 2017
For the 2017/18 financial year, the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) estimated a total expenditure of R1.98 billion, of which R198 million was budgeted for Administration, R737 million for Superior Court Services, R82 million for Judicial Education and Support, and R966 million for Direct Charges. With regards to the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Bail policy & minimum sentencing legislation on inmate population; Suspension of magistrates
8 Mar 2017
Inmate population in South African prisons has over the last fifty years increased by 114.06%.
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services heard this during a joint presentation by the Department of Correctional Services, Judiciary, SAPS, NPA, and Legal Aid SA.
It was reported that factors that play a ...
Constitutional Review Committee
2015 public submissions: deliberations
17 Feb 2017
The Committee met to consider several outstanding constitutional review submissions from 2015.
The submissions were divided into 3 categories.
In category 1, the submissions were to amend Chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights: s7 (2), s10, s11, s25 (3) (c), review chapter 9 institutions to include the South African ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Status of Sepedi, Sesotho sa Leboa, Khelovhedu & Sign Language of South Africa & Khoi, Nama & San Languages: Pansalb, DAC & CRL Rights Commission
3 Feb 2017
In 2000, a complaint was lodged with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) to recognise Sesotho sa Leboa as an official language. In response to this, PanSALB called for written submissions on the matter. All the submissions that were received were in support of Sesotho sa Leboa. PanSALB resolved ...