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Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
North West & Free State Human Settlements Departments & Mangaung Metro
12 Mar 2019
The Committee was briefed by the North West Human Settlements Department on their 3rd Quarter Performance Report. The Committee was pleased to hear that progress has been made by the Province in meeting their financial and non-financial targets for 2018/19, and that a recovery plan was in place to deal ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Urban Settlement Development Grant poor performance by Ethekwini & Mangaung
5 Mar 2019
According to eThekwini Municipality, the purpose of the Urban Settlement Development Grant (USDG) flows from the spatial framework of the municipality. This grant subsidises the annual revenue and the expected output of receiving the USDG is to see an improvement in the infrastructure and services within the City, and also ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Housing Development Agency challenges, with Minister
12 Feb 2019
The Committee met to discuss the events that had led to the appointment of an Administrator at the Human Development Agency which had experienced a series of adverse situations at the end of the previous year. Allegations of sexual harassment and allegations of procurement irregularities had been made by whistle ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
High Level Panel recommendations: Department of Human Settlements response
4 Dec 2018
The Committee met for the last time in 2018 to consider the recommendations of the High Level Panel (HLP), which had been tasked with reviewing legislation, assessing implementation, looking for gaps and proposing action steps, with a view to identifying laws that required strengthening or amending.
The HLP’s report had ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Human Settlements Quarter 2 performance; High Level Panel recommendations
27 Nov 2018
The Department of Human Settlements briefed the Committee on its second quarter performance, giving details on its achievements in the areas of governance and administration, policy planning, programme performance and finance. The main challenge which had resulted in targets not being achieved had been staff cuts which had reduced its ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: adoption
20 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider and finalise the Property Practitioners Bill and consider the Report of the Bill.
The Department of Human Settlements took the Committee through the bill clause by clause.
The Committee:
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: proposed amendments
14 Nov 2018
The Committee was taken though the cleaned A-List of the Property Practitioners Bill to see whether the proposed amendments that had been agreed on by Members the previous day had been amended accordingly.
Members agreed that what had been read to them was what they had proposed as amendments.
The ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & deliberations
13 Nov 2018
The Committee was in the process of looking at amendments to the draft Property Practitioners Bill after consultative stakeholder engagements, and after Members had looked at all the submissions and deliberated on them.
The Department ’s legal team took Members through the amendments. Of particular importance, there was now a ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & deliberations
7 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) on the submissions made during the public hearings in Parliament and in the provinces during September on the Property Practitioners Bill.
The Department’s legal adviser provided details of the submissions from a wide range of stakeholders in the property, ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Gauteng Human Settlements Department turnaround strategy
30 Oct 2018
The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements (GDHS) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Human settlements the challenges that led to poor performance and the turnaround strategy put in place to remedy the situation; and further briefly updated the Committee on the progress of the Friendship Towns Petition.
GDHS Department has been ...