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Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Public Hearings Programme: finalisation
16 Oct 2020
Video: Legislation Amending Section 25 of the Constitution
In a virtual meeting, the Committee convened to finalise its public hearings programme. The Committee received legal opinion on whether or not the Committee will be able to meet its constitutional obligations in accommodating people with co-morbidity issues. The dilemma that the ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Language submissions: overview
9 Oct 2020
The Committee had received 58 public submissions in 2020. In this virtual meeting, the Committee Content Advisor gave an overview of past and present submissions requesting official language recognition for a specific language as provided for in Section 6 of the Constitution. Only one submission was received in 2020 proposing ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Committee Programme
8 Oct 2020
Video: Ad Hoc Committee on Legislation Amending Section 25 of the Constitution 08 Oct 2020
The Ad Hoc Committee to initiate and introduce legislation amending Section 25 of the Constitution met to adopt its draft programme. It resolved to resume the public hearings in three provinces that it could not ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Committee Staff briefings on: DOD; Armscor, CCB & DMV 2019/20 Draft Annual Reports
6 Oct 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans was briefed by the Committee Researcher and Content Advisor on the 2019/20 draft Annual Reports of the Department of Defence, Armscor, Castle Control Board and the Department of Military Veterans. The presentations highlighted the various challenges that each entity faces and raised ...
Defence
Mini-Symposium on SANDFs Force Design & Related Matters; with Deputy Minister
3 Sep 2020
Video: Joint Standing Committee on Defence, (NA and NCOP) 03 Sep 2020
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence concluded an informative virtual mini-symposium on the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) design and related matters. The Committee was unanimous on the need for continuing the discourse on the kind of ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DoD 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance; 2019 BRRR recommendations; DoD report on investigations into Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure
2 Sep 2020
The Department of Defence (DOD) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its first quarter performance report for 2020, ...
Video: Joint Standing Committee on Defence, 27 August 2020
The Committee was briefed in a virtual meeting by the Department of Defence and Military Veterans on the theft of assault rifles at the Littleton Army base, the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) participation in Operation NOTLELA to combat the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Workshop with DoD on Force Structure, Compensation of Employees, Development of an Exit Mechanism and Force Rejuvenation, briefing on the court judgement against DoD in the Collins Khoza case
26 Aug 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans conducted a workshop via a virtual platform with the South African National Defence Force, Defence Force Service Commission and National Treasury. That was followed by a briefing on the court case brought against the Department of Defence by the family of Mr ...
Defence and Military Veterans
SA Military Health Service MTEF Plan; with Minister
19 Aug 2020
In its virtual address to the Committee, the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) outlined the challenges it is facing and suggested comprehensive plans on how to address these challenges. SAMHS was to brief the Committee on the maintenance and repair programme (RAMP) for military hospitals and sickbays. However, detailed ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Dod & Dmv Budget: Committee Reports
15 Jul 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, 15 July 2020
The Committee met to consider its Reports on the 2020 Speical Adjustments Budget for Vote 23: Defence and Vote 26: Military Veterans. Members asked for clarity on the amounts in the Reports. It was said the ...