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Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its Quarter 3 performance
22 Mar 2017
The Department highlighted to the Committee that in the third quarter, programme 1 performed well achieving 78.6% or 11 of its 14 planned quarterly targets; and has spent 59.9% of its budget by 31 December 2016. With programme 2, it achieved 90% of its 10 quarterly targets. The policy and ...
Health
Health Care Services for the Mentally Ill: North West DoH; Public Hospitals audit: OHSC Briefing
15 Mar 2017
The North West Provincial Department of Health reported to the Committee on the state of health care services for mentally ill patients in the light of recent events at Life Esidimeni in Gauteng. The report looked at the number of beds available versus the needs of the patients, the type ...
Basic Education
Rural Education: recruitment, rural allowances & incentives; Kha Ri Gude Programme: DBE briefing
14 Mar 2017
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Basic Education to discuss progress on Rural Education as well as receive a report on the Kha Ri Gude Mass literacy programme.
Issues raised on the Kha Ri Gude presentation included:
Causes for the decline in the recruitment of learners, especially those ...
Small Business Development
Community Economic Development model through cooperatives development; oversight visit to KZN
8 Mar 2017
The draft report on the Committee’s oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) was presented for consideration, and all the Members agreed that it was an accurate record of the visit. Some words and phrases were changed for the document to be consistent with the content of the visit. It had been ...
Basic Education
Infrastructure and Rationalisation; Provincial Education Departments Reporting System review
7 Mar 2017
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) gave a presentation on the progress of the Provincial Education Department (PED) reporting systems and how the information received directly from provinces is utilised by the DBE for accounting and reporting purposes. This mandate was given to the DBE by National Treasury in May ...
Small Business Development
Developmental status of all Cooperatives funded by Department: Department of Small Business Development briefing
1 Mar 2017
The Department said it could not brief the Committee on the subject matter due to inadequate capacity to collect the information from the cooperatives. Therefore, it proposed to be given time to come back to the Committee with the full report on the 400 cooperatives that it funded since its ...
Basic Education
CAPS evaluation; African Languages introduction: DBE briefing
28 Feb 2017
The Committee requested a progress report on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), even though the Department of Basic Education had not as yet done a full evaluation.
DBE explained the rationale for CAPS which was introduced progressively between 2012 and 2014. Progress has taken place in respect of ...
Small Business Development
Socio-Economic Impact Assesment System: Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation briefing
22 Feb 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation informed the Committee that the National Development Plan, Medium Term Strategic Framework and Outcome 4 priorities included a reduction in the burden placed on inclusive growth resulting from unintended consequences of government actions as well as inefficient and/or inappropriate regulations. There was a need ...
Basic Education
TIMSS Maths/Science Report; Schools 2017 Reopening; Vuwani progress report
21 Feb 2017
The Committee met with the Department of Basic Education to discuss the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS) Report, the status report on schools reopening for 2017, as well as report on progress made in Vuwani, where schooling had been disrupted by community protest actions.
The TIMMS presentation ...
Health
Deaths of mentally ill patients in Gauteng: Health Ombud report and Minister's response; with Deputy Minister present
15 Feb 2017
Document outstanding: Overview of Transferred Psychiatric patients from Life Esidimeni Centre to various NGOs in Gauteng
The Minister of Health introduced the Health Ombud who had been requested to investigate the 94+ mentally ill patients who died between 23 March and 19 Dec 2016 in Gauteng. The Minister had also ...