Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Traditional Courts Bill: Commission for Gender Equality submission; CGE submissions to Parliament
20 Mar 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality provided an outline of its role with regards to legislation. The Commission took members through specific clauses of the Traditional Courts Bill and pointed out areas that needed to be attended to. The Commission objected to an intention to ‘preserve’ tradition instead of looking at ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality on 3rd Quarter Performance
13 Mar 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) started to brief the Committee on its performance and the challenges during the third quarter, but were brought to a halt when Members complained that the contents were very broad and it would be more relevant to discuss legislation that would help to improve ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Programme of Action Addressing Violence Against Women and Children, with Ministers of Higher Education & Women + Deputy Ministers of Transport & Communications
1 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women Caucus (MPWC) received a briefing from the Committee Researcher on the International Conference hosted by the Parliament in August 2017. At the end of the conference there had been a list of actions which Women Parliamentarians present at the meeting were expected to pursue. The implementation suggested areas of action ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Employment Equity Hearing on gender transformation in the workplace: Commission for Gender Equality briefing
27 Feb 2018
The Commission on Gender Equality made presentations on the Employment Equity Report for 2015/2016, and the 2015 research report assessing gender mainstreaming in the public service.
The first report was based upon the employment equity hearings conducted by the Commission. The intention of the study was to assess the impact ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency Quarter 2 performance
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Quarter 2 performance to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency.
Out of the 27 planned targets, 11 were achieved and 16 were not achieved. The 2nd quarter’s performance was the same as the 1st quarter despite there being more ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance
30 Jan 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 Annual Report. The Commission’s budgetary challenges were raised as a serious matter of concern, including the amalgamation. The Commission expressed its unhappiness about the processes involved in the attempts at amalgamation because it had its own brief which ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency progress report on Audit Findings and BRRR, with Minister
14 Nov 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Budget Review and Recommendation Action Plan, responding to questions, comments and recommendations by the Portfolio Committee. The presentation provided insight into action plans for findings related to the Internal Audit, Human Resource Management, Internal Control and Risk Management and Financial Management. ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Promoting Gender Equality Underground; Systematic Investigation into Mining 2016/17: CGE Reports & Department of Mineral Resources response
7 Nov 2017
The Commission for Gender Equality spoke about its Systemic Investigation into Mining Report which looked at key challenges that prevent transformation in the mining sector of South Africa, since the companies in the mining sector are not complying with gender related legislation and women are excluded from decision making levels ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Lack of Transformation in Judiciary; African Commission on Human and People’s Rights: CGE reports
31 Oct 2017
Documents handed out: CGE Report on African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 2016 Session [awaited]; SA Country Report to the ACHPR [awaited]
The Commission for Gender Equality spoke about its Investigative Report into Lack of Transformation in the Judiciary. The persistent patriarchal nature of the South African judiciary was the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission on Gender Equality 20 Year Review & Africa Gender Development Index Report
24 Oct 2017
The Commission on Gender Equality carried out two presentations; the 20 Year Review of the CGE Final Report and the African Gender Development Index Report. The Human Sciences Research Council conducted a study for the purposes of the first report. Legislation, customs and practices, Information and education programmes, Gender-related initiatives ...