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Home Affairs
Department 2019 Quarter 2 & 3 performance; BMA Bill; Impact of SONA, with Minister
18 Feb 2020
Awaited document: Committee Content Advisor - State of the Nation Address relating to work of Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs
The Minister of Home Affairs provided an update on the issue of refugees sheltering in a Cape Town church, and said an unsavoury situation had arisen at the church in Greenmarket ...
Defence
Database, Skills Audit & Military Veterans Act Amendments progress: DMV briefing
6 Feb 2020
The Department of Military Veterans (DMV) picked up from the last interaction with the Committee, and focused on the progress made in cleansing its database. The DMV had a baseline of about 30 000 files that were cleansed and cleared, and 40 000 records were given to the Department of ...
Home Affairs
DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on its strategies to resolve long queues at its offices. After the Department had been inundated with calls from frustrated members of the public last year, the Minister had directed it to conduct an assessment in order to develop intervention strategies ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Amendment Bill & Military Discipline Bill: briefings
20 Nov 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans was briefed by Department of Defence (DOD) on the Defence Amendment Bill (B18 – 2017) and the Military Discipline Bill (B 21 – 2019), and agreed to finalise the Bills as soon as practically possible. The Committee was reminded that the Defence ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Independence of Office of the Military Ombud: input from Parliamentary Legal Adviser & Office of the Military Ombud
13 Nov 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans was briefed by the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and the Military Ombud on the independence of the Office of the Military Ombud. A legal opinion had been sought to determine the autonomy of the Office, and the effect of its responsibility to report ...
Home Affairs
Delimitation of municipal wards in preparation of 2021 Municipal Elections: MDB briefing
12 Nov 2019
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) briefed the Committee on the delimitation of the municipal wards in preparation of the 2021 municipal elections. Every five years, it delimited wards in metropolitan and local municipalities for electoral purposes. The process ought to be concluded ideally not less than 10 months before the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Industry in South Africa status and challenges: DOD, Armscor & South African Defence Industry briefing
6 Nov 2019
The Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR), the Department of Defence (DOD) and the South African Aerospace Maritime and Defence Industries Association (AMD) briefed the Committee on the status and challenges facing the South African defence industry.
ARMSCOR indicated that the challenges were mainly the effect of the Department of ...
Home Affairs
Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister
5 Nov 2019
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on resolving the network downtime at DHA offices and the procurement process of the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS). The Department also provided details of its litigation case management system and issues arising from ...
Defence
Defence Committee duplication; Military Veterans Act interpretation; DMV Skills Audit progress
31 Oct 2019
Parliament's Constitutional and Legal Services Office confirmed the Committee's concern that the regulatory framework appears to duplicate the powers of the Portfolio Committee on Defence, Select Committee on Defence, and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD).
The legal advisor explained that Section 228(3)(d) of the Interim Constitution that establishes ...
Home Affairs
Issues that affect migrants and citizens: engagement with NGOs & stakeholders
29 Oct 2019
The Committee engaged with five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address issues that affected migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa. A wide variety of views was put forward by the NGOs, with some suggesting concrete proposals for the amelioration of the plight of undocumented migrants, while others blamed politicians for ...