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NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Department of Sport and Recreation 2016/17 Annual Report, with Minister & Deputy
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Sports and Recreation briefed the Committee on its 2016-2017 Annual Report.
Members were pleased that the Department had achieved an unqualified audit opinion for four years in a row and it had also satisfied 82% of its targets. The Committee was happy that ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Fourth Term programme; Committee Oversight Reports: Robben Island, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, KZN; Study Tour Report
18 Oct 2017
The Select Committee on Education and Recreation discussed and approved its fourth term programme.
A delegation from the Thekwini TVET College in KZN was supposed to meet with the Committee during the fourth term in Parliament but it did not have the funds to do so. Due to the magnitude ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Taking Parliament to the People 2016: responses by Eastern Cape Departments of Health & Social Development, with DSD Minister and DoH Deputy Minister
17 Oct 2017
The Provincial Departments of Health and Social Development in the Eastern Cape were summoned by the Select Committee on Social Development to individually give reports on their efforts at addressing the findings of the Committee during its oversight visit in 2016.
The Provincial Department of Health (PDoH), Eastern Cape, said ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee minutes
14 Sep 2017
The Committee adopted all the outstanding minutes.
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Taking Parliament to People in Eastern Cape Province : DBE & Eastern Cape Department of Education briefing
13 Sep 2017
The Select Committee of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Education and Recreation convened a meeting for the Eastern Cape Department of Education to provide an update on the implementation of the Committee’s recommendations following site visits to the province in October and November 2016.
The Committee had recommended ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Nobuntu Fuzane, Love Knysna & Mantsopa Petitions
13 Sep 2017
The Committee met to consider and adopt the Nobuntu Fuzane Petition Report, the Love Knysna Petition Report, outstanding minutes from previous meetings, and to table Executive Undertakings for future consideration.
Disagreement over the Committee’s right to pursue some of the recommendations in its Nobuntu Fuzane petition report, led to a ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: adoption; Border Management Authority Bill: discussion, with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Sep 2017
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA), presented the submissions gathered from the public comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill alongside the Department’s response to the comments. Some of the clarifications given by the Department related to the definition of dependants, to which the Department clarified that the Refugees Act had ...
Constitutional Review Committee
2016 public submissions: briefing
1 Sep 2017
The Constitutional Review Committee met for a briefing by the Content Advisor on the 2016 submission. The Content Advisor focused on the importance of an adequate reference system to keep track of the submissions, i.e. which submissions have been considered to be outside of the mandate of the Committee, which ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee Report on 2015 public submissions
21 Jun 2017
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Draft Report on 2015 Public Submissions and to consider its Third Term Programme. The Draft Report was considered page by page. The Committee agreed there was need for the use of simpler terminology in the wording of the Constitution. There was heated ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Refugees Amendment Bill: public submissions; SASSA & NDA Annual Performance Plan
20 Jun 2017
The Select Committee met with Parliamentary and State legal advisers, as well as a delegation from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), to finalise the Refugees Amendment Bill. However, the bill could not be finalised because some submissions had been received late, and the Committee, the legal advisors and the ...