Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) chapter launch; Sanitary Towel VAT exemption and Gender Based Budgeting: Treasury briefing
14 Sep 2016
Ms Thoko Didiza, newly-elected Chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) briefed the joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus (MPWC) on the launch of the CWP Chapter. As a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), her main focus would be to promote democracy and sustainable development, as well as to engage ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Sex Work Decriminalisation: Commission on Gender Equality, SWEAT, South African Law Reform Commission, Department of Justice, Parliamentary Legal Services
17 Aug 2016
A discussion session was held on decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa, with submissions being made by the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE); Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT); Sisonke Sex Workers Movement; South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC); Department of Justice (DoJ) and the South African Parliamentary ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Register of Members’ Interests 2015: adoption
28 Oct 2015
Documents handed out: 2015 Register of Members’ Interests
The Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests met briefly to consider and adopt the 2015 Register of Members’ Interests.
Before they could proceed, it was noted that there were not enough Members to form a quorum and a suggestion was made that ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
National Development Plan & Transformation of Economy to encourage Women's full participation: roundtable discussion day 2
1 Sep 2015
Ms M Semenye (ANC) gave a brief summary on what had been presented to the first day of the Roundtable discussions. She outlined that the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr L Tsenoli, had explained why this Roundtable was important, summarised the objectives of Parliament and explained the theme ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Post 2015 SADC Protocol on Gender Equality: Workshop with Provincial Multi-Party Women’s Caucuses
12 Jun 2015
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) presented its report on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development, which had committed signatories to achieving 28 substantive targets aimed at promoting gender equality. The aim of the Protocol was to empower women socially, economically and politically, to eliminate ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Increasing access to health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons: by Department of Health; Protection against violence for LGBTI persons: by Department of Justice
25 Mar 2015
The presentations by the Departments of Health (DOH) and Justice (DOJ) was to provide the Caucus with an overview of services and provisions made for the LGBTI community. The DOH briefed the Caucus on the sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and HIV prevention policy for people of the LGBTI ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Draft SADC Parliamentary Forum Report on protection against child marriages: Committee Deliberations in preparation for caucus on 25 March
24 Mar 2015
The Parliamentary Research Office presented a draft Report on the protection of children against child marriages in South Africa, which had been compiled for tabling to the SADC-Parliamentary Forum (PF) Plenary Assembly. The Plenary was trying to understand the implications of child marriages in the SADC region, to address such ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Hosting of Sedibeng Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality Gauteng Provincial Legislature by the JC on Ethics Committee
20 Mar 2015
Parliament established the first code of conduct for Members in 1997. It was first mainly around disclosure of financial interests. In 2014, Parliament established new a code of conduct. The Committee was mandated to monitor and oversee colleague’s interests. The code of conduct held Members accountable in their exercise of ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Abducted Nigerian Girls (#bring back the girls campaign): ministerial briefing; SADC Gender Protocol: Commission on Gender Equality briefing
4 Mar 2015
The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation updated the Multi-Party Women’s Caucus on the government’s role in securing the safe return of the 230 girls kidnapped last year by Boko Haram. She stressed the complexity of the issue and noted that after some girls had managed to escape and ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
PC Communications: First Term Committee Programme
27 Jan 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Communications met to adopt its 2014 First Term Programme and three sets of outstanding reports. The Chairperson briefed the Members on the programme and the outstanding minutes of the Committee. The Chairperson noted the need to focus on a letter by a Member of the Democratic ...