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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality vacancies: shortlisting
23 Aug 2022
Presentations associated with the meeting are internal committee documents
The Portfolio Committee convened in a hybrid meeting to receive briefings on the shortlisting process for filling vacancies at the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The briefings provided Committee Members with details of the legislative framework which underpinned this process, ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: adoption, with Deputy Minister
6 Jul 2022
Committee Report on Children’s Amendment Bill
The Committee approved the 16 clauses it retained in the Children’s Amendment Bill [B18B-2020] with Committee amendments. The DA, FF+, ACDP and EFF objected to the B-Bill.
The Committee Report on the Bill with the following headings was adopted:
• Context and background; ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: consideration and adoption of A-list
29 Jun 2022
In this meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor presented a redrafted version of the A-list of the Committee's proposed amendments. Decisions about Sections 21 and 24 had been settled on in the previous meeting. However, due to an incorrect draft presented to the Committee, it had agreed to defer the ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: Committee amendments consideration
22 Jun 2022
In this meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor presented the A-list of the Committee's proposed amendments. However, at the end of this meeting, the Committee deferred the adoption of the A-list to 24 June 2022. This was within its timeframe to adopt the Bill on 29 June when the proposed ...
Social Development
Fundraising Amendment Bill: DSD response to public submissions; with Minister
8 Jun 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development met on a virtual platform to receive a briefing from its Content Advisor on the analysis of a submission received on the Fundraising Amendment Bill [B29 – 2020]. The Department of Social Development also presented its response to a submission received on the Fundraising ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA and Audit & Risk Committee on Quarterly Performance
7 Jun 2022
In a virtual meeting, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Committee on its fourth quarter performance of the 2021/2022 financial year. The Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) also briefed the Committee on the Agency’s second, third and fourth quarter reports for the 2021/22 financial period. The briefings served ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development Q1-3 2021/22 Performance Reports
1 Jun 2022
The Portfolio Committee met virtually with the Department of Social Development (DSD) to receive a report on the Department’s performance for the first three quarters of the 2021/22 financial year.
The presentation covered the performance trends for quarters 1 to 3, an overview of the Department’s five programmes -- ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: deliberations
25 May 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor informed the Committee had taken a number of decisions in terms of the Bill. First, it had decided to exclude provisions relating to early childhood development. Later, it decided to exclude all provisions that were not directly related to foster care ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
DWYPD and Audit & Risk Committee on Quarter 4 2021/22 Performance; Establishment of sub-committee to fill vacancies in the CGE
24 May 2022
Video (Part 1)
Video (Part 2)
In a virtual meeting, the Committee met to receive reports from the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) and its Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) on the quarter four performance in 2021/22. The Committee also received a report from the Department's ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
DWYCPD, CGE & NYDA Budget: Committee Report; CGE vacancies
17 May 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Committee met to consider and adopt its report on the adjusted Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD), the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), and the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) for the financial ...