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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee added new observations and recommendations to the report. Firstly, the Committee observed the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ slow pace of processing legislation to Parliament such as experienced with the Local Government Amendment Bill, ENCA Bill, and Traditional leadership and Khoi- San Bill. It recommended that ...
Basic Education
Committee Report on Basic Education Budget
2 May 2018
PMG did not attend the meeting, Minutes from Parliament bellow.
Draft Minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education
Date : 2 May 2018
Time : 09:30
Venue : Committee Room V226, 2nd Floor, Old Assembly Wing, Parliament
Agenda : Consideration and Adoption of Committee Report on Budget Vote ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
VBS Bank impact on municipalities' finances; Municipal Councillors Pension Fund
25 Apr 2018
National Treasury said that the investment by municipalities of their grant funding in VBS Mutual Bank represented a breach of regulations. VBS had actively flouted the law, and focused on municipal deposits which comprised almost 75% of all its deposits. National Treasury had sent an email in August 2017 advising ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: Department of Labour response to submissions & way forward
18 Apr 2018
The Committee met to process and discuss the National Minimum Wage Bill responses submitted by the Department of Labour (DoL) in response to comments from affected stakeholders.
The Committee agreed with the Department of Labour on most of its responses to employer organisations which had submitted comments on particular ...
Basic Education
South African Council for Educators & UMALUSI 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; Readiness to administer Sign Language Examinations 2018
27 Mar 2018
Members received a presentation from the South African Council for Educators (SACE) on its 2017/18 strategic and Annual Performance Plans and budget as well as a presentation from Umalusi on its Annual Performance Plan. Umalusi also made a presentation on the state of readiness to quality assure South African Sign ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Seven Angel Ministries in Engcobo: CRL Rights Commission briefing, with Minister
20 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA or “the committee”) met the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) to discuss the “Seven Angels” church and the events surrounding it.
The Chairperson of the Commission explained how the ...
Basic Education
ICT Roll-Out in Schools; School Governing Board (SGB) Elections; with Minister and Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the current preparations for school governing body elections, which would take place from March 2018. The complexity of the election process was highlighted, especially with regard to uniformity across the provinces. Although the overall percentage of readiness was good, it ...
Basic Education
Schools 2018 Re-opening: status report: National Senior Certificate Exam 2017 outcomes and evaluation
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) met with the Committee to present on school readiness monitoring for the 2018 academic year and the outcomes of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination. The presentation focused on learner admissions and registration, undocumented learners, teacher provisioning, Learning and Teaching Support Materials (LTSM ), ...
Water and Sanitation
Western and Eastern Cape drought crisis
7 Feb 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation held a lively meeting on the current drought in the country to discuss the current status and challenges. The Committee was joined by Members from several Portfolio Committees who had been invited to attend the presentations.
The intention of the meeting was for ...
Basic Education
Provincial Education Departments Performance Indicators: roundtable discussion
6 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) had a roundtable discussion with the Committee on indicators and targets for PED Annual Performance Plans (APP). The Auditor General had raised a concern that certain indicators in the 2014-2019 Medium Term Strategic Framework were not indicated in the ...