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Home Affairs
Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Office challenges, with Deputy Minister; Gupta Naturalisation Inquiry preparations
4 Sep 2018
On 31 August 2018, the Portfolio Committee conducted an oversight visit in Gauteng which included the Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Office (RRO) in Marabastad, Pretoria. From the engagement, it was clear there were challenges that require urgent attention by Home Affairs and the Police. There were allegations that people who ...
Tourism
Bilateral Agreements / Memorandum of Understanding with other countries; with the Deputy Minister
22 Aug 2018
Delegates from the Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on on the multilateral forums to which South Africa was a signatory and a member. The briefing was also aimed at providing the status of signed agreements/memorandums of understanding (MOUs), to provide progress on the implementation of signed MOUs, and to ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Commission appointment process (postponed)
21 Aug 2018
Documents handed out: Call for Input on IEC Commissioner candidates
Members of the committee were presented with the names of eight candidates shortlisted to fill three vacant IEC commissioner positions by December. It was decided that a process should be undertaken to allow the public to make submissions on the ...
Home Affairs
Immigration Amendment Bill: public hearings
16 Aug 2018
The Committee met with stakeholders and the Department of Home Affairs to engage in Public Hearings on the Immigration Amendment Bill. All the stakeholders agreed that the Immigration Act should be amended. However, all stakeholders said that it was contrary to the Constitution and international law and also against the ...
Home Affairs
Civil Union Bill [B11-2018]: briefing; discussion on Gupta early naturalisation
15 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met to discuss the progress on the Gupta family’s early naturalisation, to receive a brief from Ms Deidre Carter on the Civil Union Amendment Bill, to hear about the challenges faced by stateless individuals to obtain naturalisation, and to table the document received from ...
Tourism
South African Tourism 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance
6 Jun 2018
South African Tourism (SAT) told the Committee that although there had been an improvement in the overall economy, as well as in consumer confidence at the beginning of 2018, this had not translated into increased spending, as unemployment still remained high. Despite the international tourist arrivals target not being met ...
Small Business Development
DSBD budget: Committee Report
9 May 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to continue its interrogation of the draft report on the Department of Small Business Development’s (DSBD’s) Budget Vote 31, focusing on the report’s recommendations. Although it deliberated thoroughly on the recommendations, it did not adopt the draft report as the Department had not yet presented its ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
South African Law Reform Commission Report: Adult Prostitution: response by stakeholders
5 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women’s Caucus arranged a summit during which 30 stakeholders and interested parties provided responses to the Adult Prostitution Report produced by the South African Law Reform Commission on behalf of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Written submissions had been submitted in 2017.
The Chairperson indicated that ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
IEC on gender quotas; Gender responsive budgets; Sanitary products: Treasury & Minister of Science and Technology input
2 Nov 2017
The Multiparty Women’s Caucus met with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which provided a breakdown of the various political parties’ viewpoints regarding the introduction of regulation to enforce a 50/50 quota for gender representation.
Members expressed differing views on the desirability of regulation. It was said that even though members ...
Home Affairs
Gupta family naturalisation
27 Jun 2017
Documents not provided to the public.
The meeting of the Home Affairs Portfolio Committee was intended to provide Committee members with an opportunity to be briefed by the Minister of Home Affairs, the previous Minister of Home Affairs, now Minister of Finance, and the Director-General of the Department of Home ...