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Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence Annual Performance Plan & Quarter 4 performance
2 May 2018
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans (DMV) had not yet decided how it was going to spend the rest of its 2018/19 budget, because there was a wrong distribution of resources within it. The DMV stated this when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on its budgetary allocation and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Defence Amendment Bill
14 Mar 2018
The Department of Defence (DOD) briefed the Committee on its third quarterly performance and expenditure report for the 2017/18 financial year, and also gave a presentation on the Defence Amendment Bill.
Performance indicators showed that the total number of achieved targets was significantly lower in the third quarter than in ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Military veterans & dependents education support: Department & NSFAS input; DMV performance
7 Mar 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) for a briefing on challenges relating to the provision of educational support benefits to military veterans and their dependants.
The Department briefed the Committee on the financial performance of the Department for ...
Defence
International peacekeeping operations: SANDF & DIRCO briefing
2 Mar 2018
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) spoke about SANDF involvement in international peacekeeping operations. The brief was particularly relevant as the Joint Committee would visit SANDF members deployed in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from the 25 ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
1 Mar 2018
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
Department of Defence
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted (with amendments) the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Defence. Members focused, particularly, on the recommendations of the BRRR and submitted their inputs.
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its 2016/17 Annual Report
28 Feb 2018
The Secretary of Defence briefed the Committee on the 2016/17 Annual Performance Report of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans. He informed the Committee that the DOD had been unable adhere to the PFMA requirement to submit the Annual Report for 2016/17 to National Treasury and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Military Veterans call centre & database upgrade
22 Nov 2017
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on the progress report on military veterans call centre and database.
SITA pointed out that the lack of a credible database is considered a stumbling block to the effective distribution of benefits to deserving military veterans. The Department of Military Veterans ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission on progress, action plan + challenges submitted to Minister
17 Nov 2017
The Defence Force Service Commission (DFSC) briefed the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on the progress it had made, its action plans, challenges it had encountered, and provided an update on the recommendations tabled to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans.
It reported that it had rolled out its ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Housing for Military Veterans: Departments of Military Veterans & Human Settlements briefing
15 Nov 2017
The Department of Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the provision of housing to military veterans. The departments responsible for the provision of houses are the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) and the national and provincial Department of Human Settlements (DHS).
The main point of the exercise was to provide ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence & Military Veterans facilities: status report from Public Works & Department
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Defence (DoD) infrastructure portfolio briefed the Committee on the various challenges it was facing with regard to the projects which were being handled by the Department of Public Works (DPW).
There were currently 104 capital works projects and 56 refurbishment projects under execution by the DPW, and ...