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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Structures Amendment Bill: stakeholder engagement
13 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee received comments on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill [B19-2018] from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) had had the benefit of forming part ...
Water and Sanitation
Sanitation backlogs in schools: DBE briefing; Sanitation Technologies and Innovations: Water Research Commission briefing
7 Nov 2018
The Department of Basic Education presented the implementation plan to address sanitation backlogs at schools to the joint Portfolio Committees. It highlighted that of the country’s 23 334 active schools, 3 898 still had pit latrines as the only form of sanitation. The provinces with the highest number of pit ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Minister on municipalities affected by VBS Bank collapse
23 Oct 2018
The COGTA Minister gave a highly anticipated briefing on reports that municipalities in Limpopo, Gauteng and the North West province had lost huge sums of money invested in the now infamous VBS Mutual Bank.
The briefing detailed steps taken by the Department in the wake of the collapse and curatorship ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRRR
17 Oct 2018
BRRR available here once published: 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider its draft Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRR Report following engagements with the Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and its various entities, as well as the Office of the ...
Basic Education
Whole School District Approach: NECT progress report; Basic Education BRRR
16 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
This was a roundtable meeting with the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT), which was given an opportunity to present an updated report on the impact and challenges of its programme.
The NECT said that there had been growth in the programme, but ...
Basic Education
Schools for the Deaf: DEAFSA; DBE; UMALUSI; Principals Organisation roundtable
12 Sep 2018
This was a roundtable meeting where stakeholders in deaf education were given a chance to express their grievances and achievements with regard to deaf education in South Africa. The Department of Basic Education (DBE) attended in order to report on its involvement in the process thus far.
DeafSA said education ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill [B7-2018]: stakeholder engagement, with Deputy Minister
4 Sep 2018
The Committee heard submissions from traditional leaders; the Department of Basic Education; and the Department of Arts and Culture as part of public hearings on the Customary Initiation Bill.
Amongst other provisions, the Bill provided for the effective regulation of customary initiation school practices, the establishment of a National Initiation ...
Basic Education
Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC); 2017 National Senior Certificate Consolidated Results, with Minister
28 Aug 2018
The Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign is geared to mobilising stakeholders to play a role and take responsibility for the attainment of quality learning and teaching. The QLTC has been repositioned to respond to the dictates of the Education Action Plan to 2019: Towards the Realisation of Schooling 2030. Some ...
Basic Education
History as a compulsory subject; Rural Education Draft Policy: with Deputy Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) met with the Portfolio Committee to discuss the proposed introduction of history as a compulsory school subject, and also presented its proposals for a draft rural education policy.
The Deputy Minister said the approach and value sought from history being taught was to create ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education Quarter 4 performance
5 Jun 2018
The Department on Basic Education (DBE) met with the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education to present itas fourth quarterly report for the 2017/2018 financial year. DBE reflected on the fourth quarter outputs achieved in comparison to the planned targets of the pre-determined objectives for the year; as well as the ...