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Home Affairs
Prophet Bushiri & wife escape from SA: Ministry & Department briefing; Electoral Laws Amendment Bill: IEC response to public submissions
17 Nov 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, 17 November 2020
Following the escape of Prophet Shepard Bushiri and Ms Mary Bushiri from South Africa while out on bail, the Minister of Home Affairs was invited to a virtual meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs to answer to allegations and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DOD on Human Resource Action Plan & measures put in place to contain budget over-expenditure; with Minister
4 Nov 2020
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to discuss the Department of Defence’s Human Resource Action plan and measures put in place to contain over expenditure on HR.
On the presentation of the Human Resource Action Plan, the Minister asked if it can be presented later, before Parliament recesses, since ...
Defence
National Conventional Arms Control Committee on 2020 Quarter 2 Report
29 Oct 2020
During the meeting to consider its Quarter 2 performance report, the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) was questioned by the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on its encryption-like information, responses and statistical mistakes in the documents issued to the Committee. The Chairperson remarked that generally NCACC had encrypted the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Military Ombud & Military Veterans Appeals Board 2019/20 Annual Report; with Deputy Minister
28 Oct 2020
The Portfolio Committee received presentations from the Military Ombud and Military Veterans Appeal Board in a virtual meeting on their Annual Reports for 2019/20.
The Military Ombud reported that it had set 12 targets, of which seven had been achieved, reflecting a 58.3% performance. This was a significant improvement over ...
Home Affairs
Ministers of Home Affairs & Communications on steps taken to deal with people who were in involved with ABIS / EOH contract
27 Oct 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, (National Assembly) 27 Oct 2020
25 Aug 2020 Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) progress; with Minister & Deputy Minister
02 Jun 2020 Allegations of corruption against GPW Acting CEO; with Ministry and Update on EOH, ABIS & VFS contracts
05 Nov 2019 Resolving DHA ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission on preliminary assessment of 2019/20 annual report
22 Oct 2020
Video: Joint Standing Committee on Defence, (NA and NCOP) 22 Oct 2020
The Defence Force Service Commission briefed the Committee on its Annual Activity Report and Financial Statements for the 2019/20 financial year.
Members questioned Commissioners of the lack of implementation of their recommendations, one of the main challenges reported ...
Home Affairs
Draft BRRR: Content Advisor briefing; Electoral Laws Amendments Bill: IEC briefing; with Minister and Deputy Minister
9 Oct 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (the Committee) convened for a briefing by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill in a virtual meeting. This as the country prepares for the 2021 local government elections.
The Content Advisor briefed the Committee on its Draft ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Committee Staff briefings on: DOD; Armscor, CCB & DMV 2019/20 Draft Annual Reports
6 Oct 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans was briefed by the Committee Researcher and Content Advisor on the 2019/20 draft Annual Reports of the Department of Defence, Armscor, Castle Control Board and the Department of Military Veterans. The presentations highlighted the various challenges that each entity faces and raised ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance of 2020; with Minister
6 Oct 2020
In the presence of the Minister, the Department of Home Affairs presented its performance and expenditure for the first quarter of the 2020/21 financial year. The Department mentioned that most of the targets were not achieved during the first quarter due to the COVID-19 lockdown and that projects paused during ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DoD 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance; 2019 BRRR recommendations; DoD report on investigations into Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure
2 Sep 2020
The Department of Defence (DOD) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its first quarter performance report for 2020, ...