POSTPONED - Committee’s Annual Plan & 1st Term programme

Meeting report

The Chairperson opened the meeting and greeted Members As the meeting was on course to not start on time, the Chairperson suggested all future meetings start earlier and insisted the Committee use its time wisely, as Members are very busy people. He asked the Committee Secretary if there were any apologies tendered.

The Committee Secretary greeted Members and relayed that Mr I Groenewald (FF+) indicated he would be late to the meeting.

[at this point, the Chairperson experienced connection challenges]The stand-in Chairperson, Ms D Direko (ANC), asked the secretary to continue with the apologies. the secretary noted Ms E Spies (DA) tendered an apology.

Acting Chairperson Direko - asked if the Minister and Deputy Minister would attend the meeting.

The secretary clarified the Minister and Deputy Minister were not invited to this specific meeting but will be invited to the next meeting.

[other Members experienced connection challenges at this point]

Acting Chairperson Direko felt the meeting should continue while Members sort out their technical challenges. She informed Members the meeting was called to discuss and adopt the Committee’s annual plan and first term programme.  

Acting Chairperson Direko called for a moment of silence in honour of a fellow Committee Member who had recently passed on [she was referring to Ms M Tlou (ANC)]

After the due respects were paid, Acting Chairperson Direko called for the first term programme to be discussed, while the Chairperson sorted out his technical difficulties.

As the Committee Secretary was also experienced connection difficulties, the programme was not flighted on the screen

Due to this, and other Members experiencing technical difficulties, including the Chairperson, the Acting Chairperson proposed the meeting be postponed.

Ms H Mkhaliphi (EFF) wanted to understand the Committee’s annual plan – she thought the Committee was supposed to have a strategy workshop or session with the Department to draft the annual plan. She asked what happened to this arrangement.

The Acting Chairperson said the matter will be discussed in a future meeting.

Mr B Hadebe stated that the committee had a 5-year strategic plan, saying that it was a draft based on meetings of the orientation session that the committee conducted in Caledon back in 2019. He further stated that, at that session, they drafted a 5-year plan. He expressed that the committee’s annual plan was based on the 5-year strategy plan.

Mr B Hadebe (ANC) said the Committee had a five-year strategy plan based on the orientation the Committee conducted in 2019. The annual plan of the Committee is based on this five-year strategy.

The Acting Chairperson noted this.

She thanked Members for their attendance and apologised for the technical difficulties and inconvenience for those Members ready to attend the meeting.

.The Acting Chairperson said the new date for the meeting would be communicated.

The meeting was adjourned.