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Health
North West Department of Health status report; Committee Reports: Provincial Hospital Services; KZN Oversight; with Deputy Minister
12 Sep 2018
The North West Department of Health said they had managed to achieve 63% of their performance targets, compared to the 60% achievement in the previous financial year. Challenges which had prevented them from achieving more of their targets were the labour unrest and industrial action that had taken place, the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
EFF Medical Aid Scheme submission; Committee Programme
12 Sep 2018
The Sub-Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme met to receive submissions about amendments to the PARMED Act. The EFF was only party ...
Science and Technology
Convention establishing SKA Observatory; Committee Report on South Korea/Japan Study Tour
29 Aug 2018
The agenda of the meeting was a briefing by the Department of Science and Technology on the Convention establishing the Square Kilometre Array Observatory and consideration of the Committee’s report on the 2018 International Study Visit to South Korea and Japan.
SKA South Africa briefed members on the purpose of ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Section 89: Removal of President – finalisation of revised rules
28 Aug 2018
The National Assembly Rules committee met to consider the following; the draft agenda for the meeting, two outstanding minutes, the legal opinion on the proposals for the removal of the president from office in terms of section 89 of the Constitution as well as the proposal on draft rules to ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Legislative review of Parmed: briefing
22 Aug 2018
The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme was supposed to be briefed by the Office of the Chief Justice – the Office informed the Chairperson that it was unable to deliver the presentation today.
Members discussed the possible need to reduce the size of the ...
Science and Technology
Science and Technology Laws Amendment Draft Bill: DST briefing
22 Aug 2018
The Department of Science and Technology briefed the Committee on the Science and Technology Laws Amendment Draft Bill. The Minister was present at the meeting. The Bill had been ATC on the 29th June and had been referred in terms of Rule 159 to the National Assembly and the National ...
Health
Hospitals: Northern Cape, Limpopo, Free State, KZN Departments of Health
13 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Health met with Northern Cape (NC), Limpopo, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Departments of Health (DoH) to receive presentations on the status of their hospitals, after having received a briefing from the Accountant General on their budget allocations. The meeting also sought answers to questions based ...
Health
Hospitals: Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape & Gauteng Departments of Health
12 Jun 2018
The report of the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) featured prominently in the meeting, with the Committee wanting to find out what the various provincial departments were doing in response to the OHSC findings. The provincial Departments of Health of Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape and Gauteng pointed out that ...
Health
Hospitals: Western Cape & Gauteng Departments of Health
6 Jun 2018
The Western Cape and Gauteng provincial Departments of Health briefed the Committee on hospital services in their provinces.
The Western Cape’s long term vision was not to focus on illness, but rather on wellness. It had recognised that health was a function of more than one department and had been ...
Science and Technology
Mining Phakisa; DST International Cooperation and Resources Programme: Department briefing
6 Jun 2018
The Department of Science and Technology briefed the Committee on the Mining Research Development and Innovation Programme and Phakisa. A disappointing announcement was made that South African mining was in crisis. Post Mining Phakisa represented some of the following: No significant price movement; Cost increases were greater than the Consumer ...