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Committee Legacy Report
27 Nov 2018
Documents handed out: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Transport on its activities undertaken during the 5th Parliament [awaited]
Ms Valerie Carelse, the Committee Content Advisor took the Committee through its draft legacy report. She said that the Committee did not have a set performance plan and that they were ...
Transport
Department of Transport Quarter 1 & 2 Performance; Committee Report on RABS Bill
20 Nov 2018
The Committee considered and adopted its Committee Report on the Road Accident Benefit Scheme. However, there was a moment of critical and heated debate between the Chairperson and the opposition due to disagreements about what should be included in the Committee Report as the minority views. The matter was put ...
Police
SAPS Rural Safety Plan: SAPS, AgriSA, COSATU/POPCRU & AFASA input; with Minister
14 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the Police of Police, National Commissioner of Police, senior management of the SA Police Service (SAPS) and other relevant stakeholders to be briefed on SAPS’ Rural Safety Strategy. SAPS presented its Rural Safety Strategy to the Committee looking at the background to it, status of the ...
Transport
SADC Aviation Safety Organisation Charter; Committee Report on RABS Bill
13 Nov 2018
The Committee deliberated further on the Committee Report and the Minority Report submitted by the Democratic Alliance at the previous meeting. The Committee rejected the Minority Report as a separate report arguing that it would populate the Committee Report and the Committee did not sub-contract the DA to write part ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: adoption: Committee Report postponed
8 Nov 2018
The Committee deliberated on the working draft of the Bill clause by clause and approved all the clauses. The Department had been tasked with proposing new clauses that would address the future social security comprehensive legislation and the transition from the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to RABS. Clause 71(3) and ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: minority report
7 Nov 2018
The Democratic Alliance submitted its minority report as it was against the Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill. It objected to the no-fault system, the removal of the common law, the financial implications of running the dual system, the modelling cost of RABS, the rehabilitation benefit, and average annual national income. ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: deliberations
31 Oct 2018
The Committee approved the drafting of the amendments it proposed in the 30 October meeting. The Committee would consider the Bill and approve it the following week. Thereafter it would begin to process the Airports Company Amendment Bill and the Air Traffic and Navigation Services Amendment Bill.
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: final proposed amendments
30 Oct 2018
The Department of Transport took the Committee through the working draft of the Road Accident Benefit Scheme clause by clause noting all the proposed amendments that had been effected for its approval. Members agreed to the proposed amendments and there were no substantive changes proposed and effected further. DoT also ...
Transport
Transport Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
24 Oct 2018
BRRR available once published: 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Transport deliberated on the Department’s BRRR report.
There was some debate about the structure of the report, with one Member asking why it went back four years. Another pointed out that the detailed report ...
Transport
RAF & RTIA 2017/18 Annual Reports
11 Oct 2018
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) and the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Transport on their audit outcomes for the 2017/18 financial year.
The RAF said its the total revenue during 2017/18 had increased to R37.34 billion, from R33.34 billion in previous year. ...