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NCOP Health and Social Services
Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & final mandates; Committee Legacy Report
25 Mar 2019
The Committee met with the Department of Human Settlement for responses to public submissions on the Property Practitioners Bill. Following the passing of the Property Practitioners Bill by the National Assembly in November 2018, it was referred to the National Council of Provinces for deliberation in terms of section 76 ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee Legacy Report & Public Submission Reports
20 Mar 2019
The Committee met to adopt the following: all outstanding minutes from 2017 to the present; reports on public submissions for 2016, 2017/18 and the committee’s legacy report. All the minutes were adopted with minor amendments while the public submission and legacy reports respectively were adopted with no amendments.
Members extolled ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Property Practitioners Bill: Negotiating Mandates & Department Response
19 Mar 2019
The Select Committee meeting was called to receive provincial negotiating mandates for the Property Practitioners Bill [B21B-2018]. Members, with the mandate of their provinces, voted unanimously in favour of the Bill but several provinces had queries, required clarification or required amendments to the Bill.
Officials from the Department of Human ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Registration at Universities & TVET Colleges
13 Mar 2019
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) briefed the Committee on registration at Universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges. It mentioned challenges faced by the Department with regards to the administration of National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) which affected the implementation of the new ...
Constitutional Review Committee
2016 public submissions: finalisation; 2017 & 2018 public submissions: consideration
7 Mar 2019
The Committee reviewed and put on record their decisions for all 67 submissions received from the public in 2016, six for 2017 and five for 2018.
Most of the recommendations and legal opinions received were adopted, except in some cases where the Democratic Alliance and the African Christian Democratic Party ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: deliberations and finalisation
6 Mar 2019
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) appeared before the Select Committee on Education and Recreation to give responses to written submissions from external organizations pertaining to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Amendment Bill. These organizations include Universities of South Africa (USAf), the South Africa Institute of Chartered Accountants ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017]: final mandates; with Minister
26 Feb 2019
The Select Committee on Social Services met to consider the final mandates on the National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017].
The Committee noted that the Bill had been referred to it on 28 August 2018, and from that time a briefing had been received, advertisements for public ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017]: negotiating mandates & department response
19 Feb 2019
The Committee convened to consider negotiating mandates on the National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2018]. The Minister of Health and the Department were in attendance to give their responses to the mandates, highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement.
All Provinces voted in support of the Bill with ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
2018 Matric Results: DBE & Umalusi briefing, with Deputy Minister
13 Feb 2019
The Committee was first briefed by the Department of Education on the 2018 matric results. The Deputy Minister was in attendance.
The Deputy Minister said that no-fees schools have performed extremely well and there has been notable improvement in the subjects of Mathematics and Physical Science. There are challenges which ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill [B20B-2018]: briefing
30 Jan 2019
Call for Comment on National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill [B20B-2018]
Due to the rise in the number of fake qualifications, the NQF Amendment Bill introduces measures to address misrepresentation of qualifications and to impose consequences on persons who misrepresented their qualifications, or organisations that issue invalid qualifications. The Bill provides ...