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Justice and Correctional Services
Minister on National Council for Correctional Services appointments; Correctional Services contingent liability & legal services capacity; POPI Act appointments
11 Nov 2015
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services addressed a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services and the Select Committee on Security and Justice to hear his remarks on the National Council of Correctional Services (NCCS). Minister Masutha illustrated the litany of challenges facing his Department ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Police brutality in Oudtshoorn: SAPS and IPID briefing
4 Nov 2015
The Committee met to hear follow-up responses from the SA Police Service (SAPS) and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) following questions put to them by the Committee after the their visit to the Eden district as part of the “Taking Parliament to the People” initiative.
SAPS said that in ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Fuzane petition; Maluti-A-Phofung petition; Kona petition; Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) petition: Committee hearing reports
4 Nov 2015
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings, together with the Portfolio Committee on Health, met to discuss a report on the Fuzane Petition, which had previously been the subject of hearings at three consecutive meetings during May and June. The hearings had dealt with a petition submitted by Ms ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Taking Parliament to People in Oudtshoorn - Responses to Executive Undertakings: COGTA briefing
3 Nov 2015
The Deputy Minister described the factors leading to the national and provincial governments’ intervention in the Oudtschoorn municipality under Sections 139(1)(b) and 154 of the Constitution. There had been concern for the state of governance, financial management and service delivery in the municipality. The administrator was vested with all the ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Criminal Matters Amendment Bill [B20B-15]; Judicial Matters Amendment Bill [B2-2015] & Defence Laws Appeal Amendment Bill [B7-2015]: briefings
28 Oct 2015
The Department of Justice presented on the Criminal Matters Amendment Bill. Particular emphasis was placed on crimes involving essential infrastructure, the creation of this new crime and the various amendments to measures and the associated procedures. The bill proposed certain bail restrictions and reversing the onus to the defendant, as ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Executive Undertakings Guidelines: consideration; Tabling of Executive Undertakings referred to Committee
28 Oct 2015
Documents handed out
Consideration of Executive Undertakings Guidelines (Brief Executive Undertaking document for information purposes
Consideration and adoption of outstanding minutes
Consideration and adoption of Maluti-A-Phofung Report
Consideration and adoption of the Committee progress report
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings met to consider and adopt outstanding reports ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Defence Laws Repeal Amendment Bill [B7-2015]: Department of Defence briefing; Committee Reports adopted
23 Sep 2015
The Department of Defence briefed the Committee on the Defence Laws Repeal Amendment Bill [B7-2015]. The Department gave a summary of each clause and the reasons for repealing or amending all of the Acts named in the Bill for repeal. These mostly involved “time-specific Acts” which were now redundant as ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Committee Report on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals: consideration postponed due to lack of quorum
22 Sep 2015
The Ad Hoc Committee on Probing Violence against Foreign Nationals could not adopt its Draft Report on violence against foreigners because there was no quorum. For the Committee to adopt the report, it needed 6 members from both the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces. In the Committee there ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10B-2015]: consideration & adoption; Committee Report on Makana Local Municipality
22 Sep 2015
The Committee met to consider and adopt a C-list on the Disaster Management Amendment Bill, to consider and adopt the Committee’s fourth term programme, and to table the report of the Makana Local Municipality.
The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) briefed the Committee about the amendments to the bill. These ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Makana Local Municipality Section 139 intervention; Committee Oversight Reports on Ventersdorp & Tswaing Local Municipalities; Disaster Management Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
1 Sep 2015
The provincial representatives read out their negotiating mandates in respect to the Disaster Management Amendment Bill. This Bill received support subject to the consideration and consolidation of some recommendations by KZN, Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Gauteng. The Provinces of Free-State, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape voted in favour of ...