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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Maiden bursary investigative report at Uthukela District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal
25 Oct 2016
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) presented a report to the joint committees on its investigation into a government-funded bursary administered by the uThekela District Municipality (UDM) that was restricted to girls who were virgins, and who had to undergo virginity testing. The CGE ruled that the conditions imposed in ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Districts’ Monitoring, Support and Improvement: Deputy Minister & Department of Basic Education briefing
21 Sep 2016
The Deputy Minister of Basic Education stated that the issue of districts and their role was important in the delivery of quality education. The Department had made a commitment to meet all district directors on a quarterly basis across the country, and had complied with this undertaking. This had contributed ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Children’s Second Amendment Bill [B14B-2015] & Children’s Amendment Bill [B13B-2015]: Department of Social Development briefing
20 Sep 2016
The Department of Social Development briefed the Select Committee on Social Development on proposed amendments to the Children’s Amendment Bill B13-2015 and the Children’s Second Amendment Bill B14-2015. The proposed amendments were the result of over six years of work, inclusive of guidance given from the courts regarding the interpretations ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Immigration Amendment Bill [B5-16]: finalisation; Community Schemes Ombud Service & Sectional Titles Schemes Management Regulations
16 Aug 2016
The Select Committee on Social Services was briefed on the Immigration Amendment Bill and the Regulations for the Community Schemes Ombud Service and the Sectional Titles Scheme Management.
The Parliamentary legal adviser said that the Committee had been briefed on the Immigration Amendment Bill in May, and it had then ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Human Settlements on 2016 Plans, Housing Subsidy Scheme, Community Schemes Ombud Service regulations & Housing Development Agency plans, in presence of Deputy Minister
10 May 2016
The meeting had an extremely full agenda and very little time to go through each agenda item because of the budget votes and other meetings occurring prior to this one, which meant that the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) was not able to answer all questions, and would send through ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government Elections 2016 Preparations and Readiness, with Deputy Minister
12 Apr 2016
This was a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in which the Municipal Demarcation Board, the South African Local Government Association and the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) presented on preparations and readiness for ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Burden of Health & Disease in South Africa: Medical Research Council briefing
15 Mar 2016
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) gave the Portfolio Committee on Health a presentation on its mandate, objectives and goals, highlighting the areas of health that the Council was engaged in researching, and the ways in which it aimed to do so in collaboration with universities and government departments ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Embrace Dignity petition to end all all forms of oppression against women, prostitution & sex trafficking
2 Mar 2016
Embrace Dignity, a non-profit organisation, briefed the Committee on itself and its call to Parliament to assist in ending all forms of oppression against women, prostitution and sex trafficking. Embrace Dignity essentially set out to challenge gender and power inequalities that continued to oppress women and girls and to express ...
NCOP Security and Justice
2014 Defence Review: Department of Defence briefing
24 Feb 2016
A delegation from the Department of Defence (DoD) presented on the Defence Review 2014, but prior to and during the presentation a number of Members of the Committee expressed their dissatisfaction that the Minister and Deputy Minister of Defence were not present, as there were a number of questions on ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Matric 2015 results in Limpopo and strategies to improve 2016 results
24 Feb 2016
The Chairperson raising some points she wanted the MEC of Education for Limpopo to respond to in the presentation since the Committee is worried about the decline in the Matric marks. Were more teachers employed since the Limpopo student population had increased drastically and were teachers adequately trained to teach ...