Mr Yusuf Cassim

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Yusuf Cassim

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Public Service and Administration Acting Chairperson election
    6 Sep 2017

    The Committee elected Ms R Lesoma as Acting Chairperson of the Committee.

    Some Members of the Committee brought up issues that were not on the agenda, to the disapproval of other Members. Such issues included the steps to be taken when removing a Chairperson of the Committee, the status of ...

  • Public Service and Administration Employment Opportunities for Youth: NYDA; National Youth Policy: DPME report
    7 Jun 2017

    The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Committee on the progress and challenges regarding the implementation of the National Youth Policy (NYP) 2020, and the new board of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) gave a broad overview of the strategies it was implementing to enhance youth ...

  • Public Service and Administration Committee Reports on DPME, DPSA & Statistics South Africa Budget
    16 May 2017

    The Committee convened for consideration and adoption of the draft reports on Vote 8 (Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation), Vote 10 (Department of Public Service and Administration) and Vote 12 (Statistics South Africa).

    The Committee noted with concern that it had made a request to the National Youth Development ...

  • Public Service and Administration Committee Reports on Oversight; Department Budget; Policy on Incapacity Leave and Ill-Health Retirement Workshop
    10 May 2017

    The Committee discussed incidences of Members receiving threats after oversight visits and requested the Chairperson petition the Speaker for protection and legal services to cater for such incidences. This was during consideration of a draft Committee oversight report. Members decided it was important to have a joint sitting with the ...

  • 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.

  • 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% ...

  • National Youth Development Agency appointments Recommendation of NYDA Board Members
    7 Feb 2017

    The Committee met to deliberate and recommend names to serve on the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). The Committee nominated seven Members to serve in the Board with four males and three females from across the country.

    During deliberations, Members commented that the geographical spread of the candidates was fairly ...

  • National Youth Development Agency appointments National Youth Development Agency Board: interviews of short-listed candidates
    25 Jan 2017

    The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on the appointment of Board Members to the National Youth Development Agency interviewed 13 candidates who would serve on the NYDA Board. Before this, the Committee briefly discussed concerns raised by the DA about the process and decided on the questions that will be asked ...

  • National Youth Development Agency appointments Committee Minutes & Security Clearance Report
    24 Jan 2017

    The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on the Appointment of Board Members to the National Youth Development Agency spent more than three hours debating about the minutes of the previous meeting.

    Two issues arose. The EFF, first, charged that it had not been invited to the previous meetings. The party felt ...

  • National Youth Development Agency appointments Shortlisting of candidates
    7 Dec 2016

    The Committee at the outset of the meeting briefly discussed the matter of what the appropriate number of shortlisted candidates should be. Members were aware that there were only seven positions on the NYDA Board. The number of applications received for the seven positions totalled 487. The Committee in the ...