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NCOP Health and Social Services
Financial management at Water Trading Entity & bulk water supply: Department briefing; with Minister & Deputy Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), in the presence of the new Minister and the Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on its financial management. The Department had been allocated a budget of R15.6 billion for the 2017/18 financial year. To date, R14.6 billion (93%) had been spent, leaving an ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order, with Minister
28 Feb 2018
SASSA told the Committee that there had been some changes since the previous week’s meeting. It appeared that the March 2017 Constitutional Court judgement had ruled that SASSA could accept a tender from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). CPS had filed an application at the Constitutional Court in February to request ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency progress report on Audit Findings and BRRR, with Minister
14 Nov 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Budget Review and Recommendation Action Plan, responding to questions, comments and recommendations by the Portfolio Committee. The presentation provided insight into action plans for findings related to the Internal Audit, Human Resource Management, Internal Control and Risk Management and Financial Management. ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality on its Annual Performance Plan
16 May 2017
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) gave presentations on their annual performance plan (APP) and budget for 2017/18 to the Women in the Presidency Portfolio Committee. The CGE noted that it would be completing its five-year strategic plan, which was first implemented in the 2013/14 financial year, in 2017/2018, and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister
9 May 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency, which would be referred to as the Department henceforth, made a number of presentations. The first presentation was on the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT), which was about measuring the performance of the Department on particular practices. The purpose of these measurements was ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on its Quarter 3 performance, with Minister present
7 Mar 2017
The meeting started with a debate on the use of English by MPs for communication during the meeting, and expanded into a discussion on the need to consider ways to allow fuller use of the country’s 11 official languages at committee meetings. It was agreed that it was Parliament’s responsibility ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women on its 2015/16 Annual Report; Auditor-General on Department & Commission on Gender Equality audits, with Minister in attendance
11 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee met to receive the 2015/16 annual report of the Department of Women in the Presidency (DWP), as well as briefings from the Auditor General’s office, Parliamentary researchers and a Parliamentary content advisor.
The advisor and researchers all echoed that the DWP was performing poorly, as the Department ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Commission on Gender Equality 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan; NYDA National Youth Policy; Department of Women performance report, with the Minister present
20 Sep 2016
The Select Committee met with the Department of Women in the Presidency (DWP), the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) to discuss each entity’s recent performance. The meeting was time constrained and some of the Committee’s questions could not be fully addressed. This was ...