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NCOP Finance
Carbon Tax Bill; Customs & Excise Amendment Bill; PIC Amendment Bill: adoption; Financial Matters Amendment Bill: briefing
19 Mar 2019
The Committee approved the Carbon Tax Bill and its accompanying Customs and Excise Amendment Bill. The imposition of a Carbon Tax would happen from 1 June this year. The Committee Report on the Bill stated that it intended to encourage a “just transition” to a lower carbon economy by setting ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
iKamva Digital Skills Institute Bill [B10B-2018]; Committee Legacy Report & Annual Report
13 Mar 2019
The Committee met to adopt the iKamva Digitial Skills Institute Bill. The Department informed the Committee that there were no public comments on the Bill after it was published for comment by the Committee. It was further indicated the Bill went through due process at the Department and Portfolio Committee. ...
NCOP Finance
Carbon Tax Bill; Customs and Excise Amendment Bill & PIC Amendment Bill: public hearings
12 Mar 2019
A range of stakeholders told the Committee that they opposed the implementation of the Carbon Tax Bill. While they agreed on the need to deal with climate change, they questioned whether the Bill was an appropriate measure.
Representatives of the domestic airlines industry asked for it to be exempted from ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
iKamva Digital Skills Institute Bill [B10B-2018]: briefing, with Deputy Minister present
6 Mar 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on the iKamva Digital Skills Institute Bill. The presentation explained the background of the Bill and the establishment of the Institute. The key functions of the Institute Model were highlighted as strategic guidance, funding, monitoring and evaluation, education ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Richtersveld Community & Alexkor Deed of Settlement: progress report
27 Feb 2019
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) gave a progress report on the Richtersveld Deed of Settlement implementation, the land restitution claim; and spoke about the Richtersveld-Alexkor handover task team.
In December 1998, the Richtersveld Communities instituted a land claim against the government and Alexkor. In 2003, after protracted legal proceedings ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill [B 35B-2017]: DRDLR briefing; Minamata Convention: Department of Environmental Affairs briefing
29 Jan 2019
Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill - A
Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill - B
The Committee met with the Department of Environmental Affairs for a briefing on the ratification of the Minamata Convention. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform also gave a briefing on the Electronic Deeds Registration ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Parmed Report Draft: consideration
26 Nov 2018
Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment Act, 1996 [No. 8 of 1996] - G 17069
The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme considered its draft report on Parmed, but could not adopt it because the NCOP component was not quorating. During the discussion it ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Committee Report on Parmed
14 Nov 2018
The Chairpersons opened the meeting and asked members if they would like to discuss the report on PARMED or if they wanted to dismiss the meeting as quorum was not met. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt the report but due to quorum not being met this could ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
National Research Foundation Amendment Bill: briefing
14 Nov 2018
The consideration and adoption of the Films and Publications Amendment Bill and the Indigenous Knowledge Bill did not take place because of a lack of a quorum.
The Committee heard a briefing from the National Research Foundation (NRF) on the National Research Foundation Amendment Bill [B23-2017]. The NRF said the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Parmed Report
7 Nov 2018
Documents Handed Out: Draft Report of the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on PARMED; Economic Freedom Fighters Written Submission to Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parmed Act; Economic Freedom Fighters and Others v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others (5554/2015) [2015] ZAWCHC 184; [2016] 1 All SA 520 (WCC) (8 December ...