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International Relations
SA Foreign Policy issues; Meeting with South African Council on International Relations
16 Nov 2016
A delegation from the South African Council on International Relations (SACOIR) met with the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation to discuss the recent US election and its impact on South Africa’s foreign policy. Though the US election was only briefly discussed, the delegation gave a detailed account of ...
International Relations
Engagement with Chinese youth diplomats to exchange views on promoting South Africa-China friendship and relations
9 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation met with a 23-person delegation from the People’s Republic of China. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange views on promoting the South Africa-China friendship and bilateral relationship. The young diplomats were given a thorough briefing on the history of cooperation between ...
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 ...
Defence and Military Veterans
SANDF Procurement processes: Chief Logistics briefing
26 Oct 2016
The Committee invited the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to clarify areas of concern on procurement processes that had caused a delay in meeting targets, which had been picked up during its oversight visit of 19 to 23 September, 2016. It had specifically requested an update on 1 Military ...
International Relations
SA foreign policy execution: expert analysis; DIRCO performance analysis by DPME
19 Oct 2016
The delegation from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) told the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation that their monitoring and evaluation tools were used to examine and rate how well government departments were handling areas of performance, and to establish whether they had procedures in place ...
Police
SAPS, IPID & CSP Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR)
18 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee discussed its draft reports on the 2015/16 Annual Report of the South African Police Services and the Civilian Secretariat for Police. Members pointed out several typographical errors and made suggestions for improving ambiguous areas of the reports. Some of the ...
International Relations
SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations impact on SA Foreign Policy; South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) on current Palestine/Israel political situation
7 Sep 2016
Both the Department of Trade and Industry and of International Relations and Cooperation briefed the Committee on the South African Development Community and European Union Economic Partnership Agreement. The departments were in agreement that trade negotiations were informed by and were in line with national development objectives set out in ...
Police
Farlam Commission recommendations; 1st Quarter 2016/17 & 4th Quarter 2015/16 SAPS performance
31 Aug 2016
The Committee met with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to receive briefings firstly on fourth and first quarterly expenditure for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years respectively. The Committee first received a preparatory briefing by the Committee researcher in terms of the budget cycle and in-year monitoring and the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its 1 Quarter 2016/17 & 4 Quarter 2015/16 performance; Defence Works Formation impact on maintenance
31 Aug 2016
The Defence Works Formation presented a report on its performance and impact on the maintenance and repair of defence infrastructure.
The major challenge it faced involved facilities which were not up to standard. This was because of the inability of the Department of Public Works (DPW) to cope with the ...
Police
South African Police Service on their 3rd Quarterly performance & Impact of reprioritisation of the Budget
9 Mar 2016
The Committee met to work through a very packed agenda for the day with the SA Police Service (SAPS). Before getting into the briefings, the Committee Chairperson reported that there had been a very successful firearms roundtable discussion the previous day with relevant SAPS officials and stakeholders in the firearms ...