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Water and Sanitation
Water & sanitation infrastructure audit: Department of Water & Sanitation progress report, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation presented its report on the 2015 audit of water and sanitation infrastructure. It was acknowledged that a number of issues remained similar to the previous year, but the Department remained committed to tackling these issues and had made significant progress in a number of ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Distressed mining towns: Inter-Ministerial Committee update; Department of Human Settlements 1st quarter 2015/16 performance
8 Sep 2015
The Department of Human Settlement presented their first quarter report. They had achieved 43% of their targets and spent 18% of their allocated budget. The low expenditure was mainly because of the high vacancy rate. Their main challenge was a lack of technical and operational capacity hindering their monitoring function ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Justice and Correctional Services & National Prosecutors Authority: briefing (closed meeting)
2 Sep 2015
PMG was not present at the meeting. It was a closed session.
Water and Sanitation
Committee reports
18 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met to consider and adopt minutes of meetings and Committee reports. At the outset, the Chairperson suggested the Committee needed a systematic process to follow up on outstanding issues arising from engagements with the Department, and was advised that a tracking tool could ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Human Settlements 4th Quarter 2014/15 & 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
17 Aug 2015
The overall achievement of the Department performance indicators during the fourth quarter was 65%. Of the 127 targets planned for the period, 83 targets were achieved and 44 targets not achieved. The achievements of the quarter were noted for all its programmes. According to the National Credit Regulator, 3 522 ...
Water and Sanitation
Engineer & Scientist vacancy reduction: interventions by Department of Water & Sanitation, Engineering Council of South Africa, Water Research Commission, Energy & Water SETA, Rand Water Academy
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) together with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and Rand Water briefed the Committee on their interventions to reduce the vacancy rate of engineers and scientists in the Water Sector. The South African Youth Council was also in attendance.
Apologies were received ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Committee Strategic Planning Workshop
23 Jun 2015
The Committee met for a strategic planning workshop, but before looking to the actual strategic plan the Committee was briefed by the Content Advisor and the Researcher on what ultimately informed the Strategic Plan and its role in the greater context of the human settlements sector.
Members found the presentations ...
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation Portfolio Committee Reports
17 Jun 2015
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt several minutes dating back as far as mid-March to June 2015. All of them were approved with minor amendments.
At the time of matters arising from the minutes, Members voiced concern that not all the areas that had sanitation challenges were captured ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 4th quarter 2014 progress report
10 Jun 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) had been scheduled to present its Fourth Quarter 2014/15 progress report, but from the outset several Members expressed their concern that once again, the Department had failed to provide copies of the presentation in sufficient time to enable the Committee to study it. ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Executive Leadership & Management Programme in Sustainable Human Settlement: University Stellenbosch briefing; SA Local Government Association on draft Backyard Rental Strategy
2 Jun 2015
The University of Stellenbosch briefed the Committee on the Executive Leadership and Management Programme in Sustainable Human Settlement Development, which was a postgraduate Diploma with 12 SAQA credits. Members of the Committee would be starting the course in the last week of recess. Focus areas were sustainable development, public management, ...