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Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC performance report; SABC Interim Board nominations
28 Feb 2017
An upheaval arose in the meeting as Members sought to receive clarity on how R5.1 billion could be rendered as irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Mr James Aguma, Acting Group Chief Executive Officer, went through many attempts to clarify this figure. Many questions were asked by ...
Public Service and Administration
Committee business
22 Feb 2017
The Committee met to consider and adopt several outstanding minutes. The Committee adopted without amendments 18 sets of minutes dated as far back as August 2015 till February 2017.
Constitutional Review Committee
2015 public submissions: deliberations
17 Feb 2017
The Committee met to consider several outstanding constitutional review submissions from 2015.
The submissions were divided into 3 categories.
In category 1, the submissions were to amend Chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights: s7 (2), s10, s11, s25 (3) (c), review chapter 9 institutions to include the South African ...
Public Service and Administration
Department of Planning Monitoring; Evaluation & NYDA & Statistics South Africa on their and Quarter 2 & 3 performance
8 Feb 2017
The National Youth Development Agency briefed the Committee on its Second and Third quarter performance 2016/17. In the second quarter, 45% of targets were exceeded, 14% of targets were within 80% of achievement, 27% were outside 80%, while another 14% would be measured in Quarter 4. In Quarter 3, 62% ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Commission for Gender Equality: Selection process postponed
7 Feb 2017
The Ad Hoc Committee for the filling of vacancies of Commissioners for the Commission for Gender Equality firstly considered and adopted the minutes of 30 November and made a follow up on the previous discussions.
The Chairperson, in her opening remarks, referred to two recent incidents where young girls had ...
Public Service and Administration
Government employees pensions payout: PSC, GEPF & PIC inputs; Gender & Disability equity in public service: DPSA report
1 Feb 2017
The Public Service Commission; National School of Government; Centre for Public Service Innovation, and the Department of Public Service and Administration convened to present their 2nd and 3rd Quarter Performance Reports 2016/17 to the Portfolio Committee on Public Service/Monitoring and Evaluation.
Public Service Commission presented that of the Annual Performance ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
ICASA on its monitoring of SABC regulatory compliance
31 Jan 2017
ICASA gave an overview of its mandate over the SABC, detailed the universal service obligations of the SABC and said that it was ICASA’s job to monitor and enforce compliance. ICASA provided a breakdown of the programming obligations of SABC 1, 2 and 3. A complaint had been lodged in ...
Public Service and Administration
Committee Minutes: postponed
31 Jan 2017
The Committee wanted to adopt the outstanding minutes that have not been adopted due to administrative delays. While there was a quorum, it was noted that the minutes needed to be corrected by the people who were present at the meetings from which the minutes arose. As the meeting stood, ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC Interim Board appointment process
24 Jan 2017
The Committee stressed the urgency of the appointment of an interim SABC Board, with members agreeing to have the Chief Whips Forum come up with names of candidates to fill vacancies created by resignations during the SABC crisis last year.
The Committee was supposed to discuss Mr Thamasanqa Ntenteni’s removal from ...
Public Service and Administration
Statistics Act challenges: StatsSA briefing; Public Service Commission Amendment Bill: deliberations; Committee Report on PSC commissioner selection
30 Nov 2016
The Statistician-General briefed the Committee on the decision to amend the Statistics Act, although it had not yet been decided whether this would be done by way of an Amendment Bill or a complete overhaul and presentation of a new Act. This would aim to ensure better coordination of statistical ...