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National Youth Development Agency appointments
Shortlisting of candidates
7 Dec 2016
The Committee at the outset of the meeting briefly discussed the matter of what the appropriate number of shortlisted candidates should be. Members were aware that there were only seven positions on the NYDA Board. The number of applications received for the seven positions totalled 487. The Committee in the ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill: Department of Justice briefing; Justice Administered Fund Bill [B26-2015] adoption
30 Nov 2016
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill (the Bill), which was being introduced in an attempt to broaden the ambit of the Protected Disclosures Act (the Act). When the Act was originally being discussed, the South African Law Reform Commission had ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Parliamentary Legal Advisors on 2015 public submissions
25 Nov 2016
The Committee Content Advisor firstly briefed the Committee on the submissions that had been sent to the Committee in the 2015 and 2016 years. She noted that she had broadly divided them into three categories, which were not cast in stone but might help Members to categorise. For those that ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Africa Skills FET College Petition Report; Tabling of Executive Undertakings
23 Nov 2016
Documents:
Africa Skills FET College Petition Report
Tabling of Executive Undertakings [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Select Committee met to consider and adopt the Africa Skills FET College Petition Report (Petition requesting the intervention of the NCOP on the alleged ill-treatment of students, corruption ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Committee Oversight Report on Pollsmoor Correctional Centre
23 Nov 2016
Documents handed out:
Committee Oversight Report on Pollsmoor Correctional Centre
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee considered the draft Report on its oversight visit to Pollsmoor Correctional Centre. Members raised issues which they felt needed to be included under recommendations made in the Draft ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Northern Cape & Mpumalanga COGTA Departments on 2013/14 & 2015/16 Annual Reports
22 Nov 2016
The meeting involved three Section 47 performance report presentations by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) delegates from the Northern Cape and Mpumalanga provinces. Delegates from Kwazulu Natal were also present to answer specific Committee questions.
The first presentation was delivered by the Mpumalanga province COGTA department, covering the 2013/2014 ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Justice Administered Fund Bill: preliminary briefing and proposed public participation plan; Oversight Visit Report; Update on International Travel
8 Nov 2016
The Department of Justice reported on the Justice Administered Fund Bill, the clauses it contained and how it was aimed to create a legal basis and framework to ensure accountability and control over the large sums of money held by the Department of Justice and Third Party Fund.
These funds ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Civilian Secretariat for Police on policies and legislation in the sector; SA Police Services on professionalising the service & Public Order Policing Training
2 Nov 2016
The Civilian Secretariat for Police Services gave a presentation on Policies and Legislation of the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service. She outlined that an approach to policing in the 21st century requires a ‘professional, well-resourced, and highly skilled police service’. She emphasised that a demilitarised police service must display a ...
Defence
SANDF transformation: DOD briefing; President’s letter on SANDF deployment
28 Oct 2016
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Defence (DOD) on transformation within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).
Major-General Olga Nodola, Chief Director: Transformation Management, South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said that transformation within the military went beyond gender, race, and disability, but also included transformation ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Maiden bursary investigative report at Uthukela District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal
25 Oct 2016
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) presented a report to the joint committees on its investigation into a government-funded bursary administered by the uThekela District Municipality (UDM) that was restricted to girls who were virgins, and who had to undergo virginity testing. The CGE ruled that the conditions imposed in ...