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NCOP Education, Sciences and Creative Industries
Department of Sport and Recreation on its 2016 Annual Performance Plan
11 May 2016
The Department of Sport and Recreation (SRSA) said the transformation charter had become the focal point of the Department’s approach to the work it was doing, with transformation agreements having been signed with federations for all five major codes. This year, agreements would also be signed with 14 other sporting ...
NCOP Social Services
Department of Human Settlements on 2016 Plans, Housing Subsidy Scheme, Community Schemes Ombud Service regulations & Housing Development Agency plans, in presence of Deputy Minister
10 May 2016
The meeting had an extremely full agenda and very little time to go through each agenda item because of the budget votes and other meetings occurring prior to this one, which meant that the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) was not able to answer all questions, and would send through ...
NCOP Education, Sciences and Creative Industries
Deputy Minister of Basic Education on Department's 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance Plans
13 Apr 2016
The Deputy Minister of Basic Education gave an overview of the size and shape of the sector, highlighting the successes achieved in the sector. For example, Grade R participation in 2002 was at 40% access, but now is almost universal. Statistics South Africa in their Household Survey indicated that 92% ...
NCOP Social Services
National Department of Health on its 2016 Annual Performance Plan & Budget
12 Apr 2016
The National Department of Health (NDOH) presented its 2016 Annual Performance Plan and budget to the Committee. The Committee was a little concerned at the timing as it was essentially considering the new targets without having been able to see the performance on the old ones. The Department set out ...
NCOP Social Services
Department of Home Affairs on its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance plan
5 Apr 2016
The Department of Home affairs (DHA) presented the annual performance plan to the Select Committee on Social Services in what was a compressed and time-constrained meeting. The main highlight of the presentation was that all the targets in the DHA’s annual performance plan for 2016/2017 were fully funded. The Department ...
NCOP Social Services
Burden of Health & Disease in South Africa: Medical Research Council briefing
15 Mar 2016
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) gave the Portfolio Committee on Health a presentation on its mandate, objectives and goals, highlighting the areas of health that the Council was engaged in researching, and the ways in which it aimed to do so in collaboration with universities and government departments ...
Joint Standing Committee on Defence
South Africa’s involvement with African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises; South Africa’s foreign deployments
11 Mar 2016
The Department of Defence and the Ministry of Defence briefed the Committee on South Africa’s internal and external deployments. The internal deployments are mostly to deal with issues of border safety on South Africa’s borders and the external missions abroad in countries like Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
NCOP Education, Sciences and Creative Industries
Grade 12 Results: briefing by Umalusi & Department of Basic Education; with Deputy Minister
17 Feb 2016
Umalusi briefed the Committee on the quality assurance of the 2015 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. A number of question papers required more than three external moderations, high levels of non-compliance were found in technical aspects, text selection and marking guidelines at the first moderation. The audit of marker selection ...
NCOP Social Services
South African Social Security Agency 2014/15 Annual Report; Draft anti-Trafficking regulations: Department of Social Development briefing
16 Feb 2016
[Note: South African Social Security Agency 2014/15 Annual Report [358MB] email [email protected]]
The Department of Social Development (DSD) briefed the Select Committee on the draft Regulations and directives framed in terms of the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act no 7 of 2013. The presentation was a formality as ...
NCOP Social Services
Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill [B22B-15]: discussion dates consideration
25 Nov 2015
The Committee met to decide on a date for discussions on the Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill. Possible dates were 11 December 2015, or 23 January 2016. It was decided that the Chairperson would meet with the office bearers first to decide on a date and then confer with Members.