Defence and Military Veterans
Military Veterans subsidised transport: Status, progress and challenges: Department of Transport briefings
30 Nov 2016
The Department of Transport (DoT) attended the meeting to brief the Committee on the progress of a system of subsidies for military veterans. Prior to the briefing, Members had questioned the Department whether other entities such as Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), South ...
Home Affairs
Congolese Community of South Africa submission; Border Management Amendment Bill: consideration; 2017 Programme
29 Nov 2016
The Committee considered amendments to the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill. It had gone through all the amendments that had been proposed in previous meetings, and these had to be adopted and incorporated into the bill prior to considering it clause by clause. Amendments that had been made would affect ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans progress report on Management Performance
23 Nov 2016
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the information it had requested on the DMV skills audit, its consequence management, its exact number of employees, and the results of the latest Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) assessment conducted by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation ...
Home Affairs
Refugees Amendment Bill [B12-2016]: public hearings
15 Nov 2016
Legal entities and non-governmental organisations with an interest in the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees in South Africa made representations to the Committee as part of the public hearings on the Refugees Amendment Bill.
An immigration lawyer who provides legal advice on immigration and refugee law in South Africa, presented ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Military veterans benefits: Department of Military Veterans status report
2 Nov 2016
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans briefed the Committee on the implementation of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) and service level agreements (SLAs), and the challenges that impeded service delivery to military veterans. The Committee was updated on the progress on the implementation of the MOUs and SLAs between the ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: deliberations; Department Home Affairs Annual Report: reasons for delay
1 Nov 2016
Border Management Authority Bill A- version
In his opening remarks, the Chairperson reminded Members that the progress on the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill was effectively on hold, as it was dependent on the outcome of meetings to be held between the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Finance and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
SANDF Procurement processes: Chief Logistics briefing
26 Oct 2016
The Committee invited the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to clarify areas of concern on procurement processes that had caused a delay in meeting targets, which had been picked up during its oversight visit of 19 to 23 September, 2016. It had specifically requested an update on 1 Military ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: deliberations
25 Oct 2016
A State Law Advisor provided a legal opinion on the Border Management Authority Bill (BMA Bill) which had been requested following questions from a Member at the previous meeting. The concerns had to do with the functions of the Border Management Authority and whether this was necessarily depriving the SA ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its 2015/2016 Annual Report; Defence Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
19 Oct 2016
The General Defence Account (GDA) received an unqualified audit opinion. The auditors did not raise any material findings on the usefulness and reliability of the reported performance information for pre-determined programs such as Force employment, Air and Landward defence. However, the Department received a qualified opinion on ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: public hearings, with Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The Minister of Home Affairs briefed the Committee on the outstanding concerns surrounding the Border Management Authority Bill which had been raised at a previous meeting. He described the three underlying principles on which the Cabinet had based the functioning of the BMA. These were that the BMA should be ...