Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Cancellation of Study Tour
4 Dec 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency could not adopt its Legacy and Annual Reports because they were incomplete and would be adopted in the new year. The Committee agreed this would be regarded as work in progress.
The Committee further voiced its extreme dissatisfaction and disappointment over the ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
SA's Fathers report: Sonke Gender Justice briefing
29 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on the Multi-Party Women Caucus met to receive briefs from Sonke Gender Justice on the State of SA’s Fathers Report; the Department of Social Development and the Women Ministry on the new South African Integrated Programme of Action Addressing Violence Against Women and Children and to adopt ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance: discussion
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met to discuss amongst other issues the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) Quarter 2 performance. The CGE was not present at the meeting and Members felt that it would be better to discuss the report in the presence of the CGE to answer questions that arose.
Before the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance; Tanzanian Parliament delegation
20 Nov 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality presented the report on its second quarter performance, and said employee relations issues and the disarray of the Commission’s Parliamentary unit were key issues. Just under 80% of the Commission’s planned targets had been achieved, and only delays in it being allowed to access correctional ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 2 performance; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency in its Quarter 2 performance achieved 20 (69%) of its 29 targets, while nine (31%) were not achieved. There was an improvement by 9% for targets achieved from Quarter 1. The Department spent 44.9% of the adjusted annual budget by end of Quarter ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Abuse of women and children by religious leaders/sector: CRL Commission briefing
30 Oct 2018
The Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Commission (CRL Rights Commission) presented its recommendations to prevent the commercialisation of religion and the abuse and exploitation of people’s belief systems. There is a lack of proper regulation to control churches that are operating outside of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Gender Transformation in Tertiary institutions; Sex workers wellbeing: CGE briefing; BRRR
23 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Budgetary Review and recommendations report (BRRR) and it was to be briefed by the Commission on Gender Equality on its report on Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions Hearings (University of Free State, Johannesburg and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency 2018/19 Annual Report; with Minister
17 Oct 2018
The Committee and the Department of women (DOW) met to discuss the questions the Committee had for the DOW regarding the 2017/2018 Annual Report. The Committee asked for explanation on points that lacked clarity as well as points of inquiry. The meeting with a prayer at the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department on Women Annual Report 2017/18 analysis
10 Oct 2018
Parliamentary Researcher and Content Advisor presentations are available to public
The Committee Content Advisor and Researcher gave an overview of their analysis and assessment of the 2017/18 Department of Women Annual Report before it met with the Department on 17 October 2018. They found the same inconsistencies and discrepancies raised ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality 2017/18 Annual Reports, with AGSA input
9 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency was briefed by the Department of Women and the Commission for Gender Equality on their Annual Reports and received a presentation by the Auditor-General of South Africa on the two Annual Reports.
The Auditor-General of South Africa found that ...