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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 2017/18 Annual Report; with AGSA & experts input
31 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
In the past few years, many professional staff members were reported to have resigned from Parliament. Reasons advanced for this haemorrhage were the five year fixed-term contracts, expensive accommodation in Cape Town, and unpleasant work environment and conditions. The Committee had engaged with Parliament to fix the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRRR
17 Oct 2018
BRRR available here once published: 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider its draft Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRR Report following engagements with the Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and its various entities, as well as the Office of the ...
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. ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; DTA & MISA 2017/18 Annual Reports; with Minister and Deputy Minister
11 Oct 2018
The Department of Traditional Affairs (DTA) presented its 2017/18 annual report, and highlighted that it had achieved 87% of its annual targets. It had not fulfilled its objective to determine if 350 traditional councils (TCs) were functional, as there was a need to first conduct an assessment ...
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 ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill: stakeholder engagement
12 Sep 2018
The Committee met to receive submissions from stakeholders on the Customary Initiation Bill (CIB) [B7-2018]
It heard that SAPS fully supported the development of the CIB with its concerns flagged. Those included the fact that:
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament’s Draft 2019/20 Budget & APP: Acting Secretary to Parliament & Treasury briefing
12 Sep 2018
The Committee held a briefing with National Treasury and Parliament’s Acting Secretary on Parliament’s 2019/20 budget and annual performance plan. An update on the disciplinary process involving Secretary to Parliament was also received.
National Treasury indicated that Parliament like other national institutions receive its appropriation through a vote in the ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Election of Co-Chairperson
4 Sep 2018
The departure of Mr V Smith meant that there was a vacancy in the Committee leadership. Following a close vote (4 in favour and 3 for another candidate), Dr M Motshekga was elected co-chairperson of the Committee.
The Committee agreed that its next meeting will take place on Wednesday, 12 ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill [B7-2018]: stakeholder engagement, with Deputy Minister
4 Sep 2018
The Committee heard submissions from traditional leaders; the Department of Basic Education; and the Department of Arts and Culture as part of public hearings on the Customary Initiation Bill.
Amongst other provisions, the Bill provided for the effective regulation of customary initiation school practices, the establishment of a National Initiation ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Eskom debt payments by municipalities: IMTT progress report; Local Economic Development
6 Jun 2018
The Department of Cooperative Governance briefed the Committee on the new sixth pillar of Back to Basics (B2B): Local Economic Development (LED) and gave a progress report from the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) on the payment of debt to Eskom by municipalities.
The Department reported that the 2018 Framework for ...