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Home Affairs
Delimitation of municipal wards in preparation of 2021 Municipal Elections: MDB briefing
12 Nov 2019
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) briefed the Committee on the delimitation of the municipal wards in preparation of the 2021 municipal elections. Every five years, it delimited wards in metropolitan and local municipalities for electoral purposes. The process ought to be concluded ideally not less than 10 months before the ...
Home Affairs
Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister
5 Nov 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on resolving the network downtime at DHA offices and the procurement process of the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS). The Department also provided details of its litigation case management system and issues arising from ...
Home Affairs
Issues that affect migrants and citizens: engagement with NGOs & stakeholders
29 Oct 2019
The Committee engaged with five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address issues that affected migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa. A wide variety of views was put forward by the NGOs, with some suggesting concrete proposals for the amelioration of the plight of undocumented migrants, while others blamed politicians for ...
Home Affairs
Audit outcomes of Department and entities: AGSA briefing; DHA & IEC 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister
8 Oct 2019
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on capacity building and the audit outcomes of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), the Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Government Printing Works (GPW) for financial year 2018/19.
AGSA stated that the audit outcomes for the GPW was ...
Home Affairs
State of province 2018/2019: Western Cape; Minister on matters affecting Department
17 Sep 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) in the Western Cape briefed the Committee on its state for the 2018/19 financial year. Earlier, Members had been disappointed with the presentations from the Northern and Eastern Cape provinces because the documents they presented were different from the documents sent to Parliament prior ...
International Relations
Foreign Service Bill: DIRCO briefing; Risks to SA Foreign Policy
11 Sep 2019
SC Trade Report on Foreign Service Bill
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) briefed the Committee on the Foreign Service Bill (FSB). Members were given insight into the rationale for the FSB. Members were also given an explanatory overview of what each of the clauses of the FSB ...
Home Affairs
Home Affairs Budget: Committee Report; Legacy Report
9 Jul 2019
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The Committee Content Advisor took the Committee through the Budget Vote Report, which summarised the interactions and recommendations made at the meeting held on 2 July with the Department of Home Affairs, the Independent Electoral Commission and the Government Printing Works on their annual ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Legacy Report
19 Feb 2019
The Committee’s Legacy Report was tabled. Members were advised to read the report as it will be discussed in the next meeting.
International Relations
DIRCO, African Renaissance & International Co-operation Fund Quarter 3 performance
13 Feb 2019
The Committee received presentations from the Department of International relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on its activities for the third quarter as well as the African Renaissance and International Cooperation fund.
DIRCO reported that all the targets for Programme one: Administration were achieved. Programme two: International Relations contributed to the R5.1 ...
International Relations
Foreign Service Bill: adoption; with Deputy Minister
21 Nov 2018
The Foreign Service Amendment Bill was adopted clause by clause. Areas that were discussed at length were “assets,” and the criteria for Heads of Missions.
Some Members urged that Heads of Missions “must” have management skills and experience, it could not be “may” in the legislation. However, after discussion, the ...