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Basic Education
Programmes for improving foundational skills of literacy and numeracy; policy with regard to refugees
10 Mar 2020
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) presented a report on the programmes for improving the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy. While there were a number of factors that affected high school children, which may also trigger dropping out of school, evidence suggested that the root cause of school dropouts ...
Basic Education
ECD migration from DSD to DBE; Tracking progress in ECD service delivery: NGO briefing
3 Mar 2020
The joint meeting of the Portfolio Committees on Basic Education and Social Development heard a progress report from the Departments of Basic Education (DBE) and Social Development (DSD) on the migration of Early Childhood Development (ECD) from DSD to DBE.
All parties acknowledged the importance of ECD as the starting ...
Basic Education
DBE 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance; Impact of SONA; with Deputy Minister
25 Feb 2020
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the significance of the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) and recommended that it consider the impact of the government’s priorities on the South African education sector over the next five years. There had been a lot of continuity ...
Basic Education
DBE response to SAHRC on Inclusive Education, Persons with Disabilities, Mental Health: with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2020
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) gave a status report on processing the recommendations of the two 2019 SAHRC Reports. One of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) recommendations in its Special Schools report was that DBE must produce a report showing what has been done to demonstrate its ...
Basic Education
2020 School Readiness & 2019 Matric Examination Outcome; Report on Griqua People’s Heritage Submission; Residents of Dryharts Village Petition with Deputy Minister
11 Feb 2020
The meeting opened with a presentation from the Dryharts community in the North West Province, which had requested the reopening of the Molehabangwe middle school as a primary school. They pointed out that overcrowding was a worrying issue at the current schools, and another school was needed because the Dryharts ...
Basic Education
Griqua People’s Heritage submission: Representative of Griqua People’s Heritage & NC Department of Education; DBE briefing: 2020 school readiness
26 Nov 2019
The Committee received a petition from a Griqua community in the Northern Cape, which had been submitted to the Department of Basic Education (DBE), requesting that a new school be built on the Gong-Gong farm. A community representative highlighted the plight of the people of Gong-Gong, and said there had ...
Health
Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
22 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
Members of the Committee discussed the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) of the Department of Health and its entities. A few matters were raised around some of the recommendations of the Report. This included concerns around the independence of the Office of ...
Health
Department of Health audit outcomes: AGSA, DPME & FCC input
9 Oct 2019
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefed the Committee on the provincial and national Department of Health spending patterns. The FFC said that as Health is a concurrent function across three spheres of government, this often creates coordinated planning problems. Inter-governmental fiscal review (IGFR) issues in the Health system include: ...
Health
CCOD, OHSC, SAHPRA on their Mandates & Annual Performance Plans 2019/20
4 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases (CCOD), the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) on their mandates and annual performance plans for 2019/20. The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy also joined in the deliberations ...
Health
Engagement with the Elders on Universal Health Coverage, with Minister
3 Sep 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Health and the Select Committee on Health and Social Services were jointly addressed by two of the Elders -- a group of former leaders that had been started by former President Nelson Mandela. Ms Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, and Mr Ricardo Lagos, ...