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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Bill 2019
12 Mar 2019
The Standing Committee considered and adopted its Report on the Division of Revenue Bill. The Committee examined the draft report on a page-by-page basis, with the input of the National Treasury. The changes made were largely about grammar and numbering. However, a substantive debate on the mismatch between funding and ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC investigations: SIU progress; SABC cost cutting, with Minister & Deputy Minister
27 Nov 2018
The new Communications Minister and her Deputy were present for the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) briefing on the outcome of 38 SABC matters that the SIU investigated in Phase 1 of the 2017 Proclamation. As a result of the investigations for Phase 1, court ready evidence was gathered and compiled ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Structures Amendment Bill: stakeholder engagement
13 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee received comments on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill [B19-2018] from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) had had the benefit of forming part ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: deliberations
24 Oct 2018
The Committee met to consider and discuss the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill [B20-2018].
The Committee felt that since at least three stakeholders had bemoaned the definition of ‘authentic’ as being vague and creating confusion, it wanted to know whether the newly drafted definition covered all the possibilities of inauthenticity. ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill [B7-2018]: public hearings report; Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs BRRR
16 Oct 2018
Committee Report available once published 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider two draft reports. The first one was the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) regarding the annual performance of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and its various entities. ...
Science and Technology
South African Council of Natural Scientific Professions, CSIR, HSRC, TIA & ASSaf 2017/18 Annual Reports
11 Oct 2018
The Committee was briefed by the CSIR on their 2017/18 Annual Report. The organisation had received a clean audit. The key achievements were that 45 unemployed youth were trained with the MICT-SETA; 13 employment offers were made to MICT-SETA interns; and 200 000 young people were ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: deliberations
11 Oct 2018
The Committee received a presentation from the Parliamentary Legal Advisor on whether the amendments being affected carried the objects of the National Qualification Framework Amendment Bill. The briefing also looked at whether the Bill could possibly have any legal or constitutional challenges going forward. He then read through his presentation. ...
Science and Technology
National Research Foundation & SA National Space Agency 2017/18 Annual Report, with AGSA input
10 Oct 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Auditor General on the audit outcomes of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and its entities. Annual reports for 2017/2018 were presented by the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and the National Research Foundation (NRF). The Auditor General ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
SALGA, MDB & CRL Commission 2017/18 Annual Reports
10 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs heard briefings on the Annual Reports by: South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) and the CRL Rights Commission. The Committee thanked and congratulated all the entities on their reports.
The briefing started with ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Student Financial Aid Scheme 2017/18 Annual Report with AGSA input; with Minister
9 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education met to hear briefings from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) on the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, as well as the National Student Financial Aid Scheme on their annual report.
AGSA reported its findings on the audits of the ...