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Arts and Culture
State of Archives in South Africa: Archival Platform briefing; Use of Official Languages Act implementation: Department briefing
1 Sep 2015
The Committee was briefed on the settlement agreement between Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and the South African Roadies Association (SARA), the state of the archives in the country, and progress in the implementation of the Use of Official Languages Act.
The Department said that three issues were hindering ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee reports
18 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met to consider and adopt minutes of meetings and Committee reports. At the outset, the Chairperson suggested the Committee needed a systematic process to follow up on outstanding issues arising from engagements with the Department, and was advised that a tracking tool could ...
Arts and Culture
SAHRA Properties Portfolio & Graves Project; Creative industries impact on economic growth & job creation: Statistics SA briefing
17 Aug 2015
The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) spoke on its maximisation strategy for its Property Portfolio which would increase income and allow the properties to be maintained properly. SAHRA idea of developing and remodeling some of its Portfolio Properties into cottages and farms, raised the concern of some Committee members that ...
Water and Sanitation
Engineer & Scientist vacancy reduction: interventions by Department of Water & Sanitation, Engineering Council of South Africa, Water Research Commission, Energy & Water SETA, Rand Water Academy
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) together with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and Rand Water briefed the Committee on their interventions to reduce the vacancy rate of engineers and scientists in the Water Sector. The South African Youth Council was also in attendance.
Apologies were received ...
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation Portfolio Committee Reports
17 Jun 2015
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt several minutes dating back as far as mid-March to June 2015. All of them were approved with minor amendments.
At the time of matters arising from the minutes, Members voiced concern that not all the areas that had sanitation challenges were captured ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 4th quarter 2014 progress report
10 Jun 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) had been scheduled to present its Fourth Quarter 2014/15 progress report, but from the outset several Members expressed their concern that once again, the Department had failed to provide copies of the presentation in sufficient time to enable the Committee to study it. ...
Arts and Culture
Arts, Culture & Heritage sector funding: National Lotteries Board briefing; Department of Arts & Culture on its Youth Activities; PanSALB Chairperson
9 Jun 2015
The National Lotteries Board (NLB) briefed the Committee on the funding of the arts, culture and heritage sector. The budget allocation for the sector had been reduced from 27% to 23%. The main issues and challenges highlighted by the NLB were those of backlogs, the complexity of project proposals sent ...
Arts and Culture
Business and Arts on 2015 strategic plan; Ifa Lethu Foundation plans & performance 2005 to 2015
2 Jun 2015
The Ifa Lethu Foundation briefed the Committee, noting that it was set up in 2005, with support from the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) as a developmental organisation, and it supported entrepreneurship, believing that the arts and culture sector could be a catalyst to economic development. Seed funding had ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on the “polluter pays” principle & Nandoni Dam Resettlement Report
27 May 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) stated that only 14 villages had been affected by the Nandoni Dam project, and all the issues of the other 18 villages had been addressed. The main communities that had been affected were Vhembe and Mopane, and the Department was working very closely ...
Arts and Culture
Committee Report on Arts and Culture Budget
14 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture met for the consideration of the Budget Vote 37 Report. The report was adopted.