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NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Mayor of Mkhanyakude District Municipality on s 139 (1)(b): input; Committee report on Mkhanyakude District Municipality
23 Feb 2016
The Mayor of UMkhanyakude District Municipality briefed the Committee on the resolution that had been taken by the Free State Provincial Executive in terms of section 139(1) (b) of the Constitution. There was a strong belief that the intervention would assist the Municipality in aaddressing a number of challenges such ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Love Knysna petition (petition on alleged maladministration, fraud and financial irregularities at Knysna Local Municipality)
10 Feb 2016
The Committee met to be hear a petition by Love Knysna, an advocacy project which had petitioned the Committee on the alleged maladministration, fraud and financial irregularities at Knysna Local Municipality.
Ms Susan Campbell, Legal Advisor Knysna Environmental Forum, said she had knowledge about the Integrated Strategic Development Framework (ISDF) ...
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
Guidelines on Executive Undertakings; Committee 4th term Quarterly Report; Committee Report
23 Sep 2015
The Committee went through the draft guidelines for the processing of Executive Undertakings in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). The Committee wanted there to be a specific time frame and decided to scrutinize executive undertaking progress on a quarterly basis, and submit a quarterly progress report to the NCOP. ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates Commission on progress reports and provisionally suspended magistrate; Revised Draft Rules for Promotion of Administrative Justice Act; UN Security Council Terrorist Proclamations
2 Sep 2015
The Magistrates Commission presented reports on the progress with disciplinary proceedings involving provisionally suspended magistrates.
In one case, the magistrate was constantly delaying the case, and when he was available, only one witness could attend the hearing to testify. The Commission made it clear that the magistrate was not receiving ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Petitions Draft Bill: consideration; Petitions Select Committee Reports
2 Sep 2015
The Parliamentary Legal Adviser briefed the Committee on the status of the draft Petitions Bill. This Bill, although in draft form, had not been introduced or formally assigned to a Committee, and the Legal Adviser discussed the content of the Bill and noted that it seemed to fall under section ...
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 ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Fuzane Petition (Alleged assaults on child whilst in a public hospital): hearing continued
3 Jun 2015
The Committee continued with its hearing on the petition lodged by Ms Nobuntu Fuzane in relation to her daughter Tamara’s treatment at Groote Schuur Hospital on 1 August 2011 and at Khayelitsha Hospital in February 2014. Members asked clarity-seeking questions of the delegation from the Department of Health of Western ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on its 2015 Strategic and Annual plans in presence of Minister and Deputy Minister
20 May 2015
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (the Department) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan 2015/16-2019/20 and Annual Performance Plan (APP). The Minister and the Deputy Minster both attended the meeting. The Deputy Minister highlighted that there had been a new Department created, namely the Office of the Chief ...