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NCOP Public Petitions and Executive Undertakings
AbaThembu Petition
21 Nov 2019
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings received petitions from the Thembuland Royal Empire and the National House of Traditional Leadership.
The petition submitted by the AbaThembu contained allegations that included the manipulation of the justice system with the intention of destroying the AbaThembu Nation in South Africa, and ...
NCOP Security and Justice
BMA Bill: DHA & stakeholders on proposed amendments, with Deputy Minister; Child Justice Amendment Bill & IPID Amendment Bill: adoption
20 Nov 2019
The Committee received input on from the Department of Home Affairs, Parliamentary Legal Advisor, the South African Revenue Service, the South African Police Service and National Treasury on proposed amendments to the Border Management Bill. The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs was in attendance.
The Committee was informed about the ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Public Administration
2017/2018 post audit remedial action plan & departmental approach to deal with water crisis in municipalities; City of Tshwane on water crisis & intergovernmental plan / engagement to deal with crisis
19 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation on remedial plans to deal with the water crisis in municipalities, and the City of Tshwane made a presentation on the specific challenges which were confronting its metropolitan municipality.
The Department reported that its financial balances showed that several ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Cybercrimes Bill [B6B-2017]: public hearings day 2
13 Nov 2019
The Committee continued with public hearings on the Cybercrimes Bill. The Committee received oral submissions from four entities: the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE), MTN, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), and Freedom of Religion South Africa (FORSA). The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) responded to each ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Cybercrimes Bill [B6B-2017]: public hearings day 1
12 Nov 2019
The Committee held public hearings on the Cybercrimes Bill. The Bill was introduced because existing laws did not address cybercrime effectively. The Committee heard from Telkom, Michalsons Attorneys and Power Singh Attorneys on behalf of Media Monitoring Africa. All three organisations acknowledged the necessity of the bill and ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Public Administration
OR Tambo, Nelson Mandela Bay, Matlosana, City of Johannesburg & Mogalokwena Municipalities Audit Action Plan: AGSA & National Treasury input
8 Nov 2019
The Auditor-General of SA (AG) briefed the Committee on the outcomes of the top five municipalities that had contributed to irregular expenditure, based on the audit outcomes that had been published in June. The five municipalities had irregular expenditure that constituted 32% of the reported R71 billion total. He said ...
NCOP Security and Justice
BMA Authority Bill: response to DHA proposed amendment; IPID Amendment Bill & Child Justice Amendment Bill: response to written submissions; PAIA Bill: briefings; with Deputy Minister; Committee Report on Magistrates Commission’s progress reports
6 Nov 2019
The Committee considered the adoption of progress reports by the Magistrates Commission on the suspension of four judicial officials. It decided that the Commission should wait for the conclusion of the disciplinary processes, or for future progress reports, in order to further consider the matter.
It was also briefed on ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Public Administration
Workshop on Section 139 Interventions in Municipalities and general observations
5 Nov 2019
The Chairperson gave an outline of Section 139 in the Constitution, and highlighted the difficulties which the Committee had faced due to their approach on Section 139. He invited the Members to discuss some of their observations and recommendations on the approach to interventions at municipalities.
One of the main ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Firearm Amnesty; Hydrographic Bill; Border Management Authority Bill: response to submissions; with Deputy Ministers
30 Oct 2019
The South African Police Service provided responses to Committee questions on the declaration of the firearm amnesty. SAPS indicated that crime in the country was high, and providing amnesty to accept unlicenced firearms without risk of prosecution was not aimed at people who did not renew their licences, but aimed ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Public Administration
Report on inspection in loco to Municipalities in North West under Section 139 intervention
29 Oct 2019
The Committee met to consider and adopt reports on the inspection in loco to municipalities in the North West under Section 139 (1) (b) of the Constitution. Members noted that there were similar issues between all the municipalities; these were irregular expenditure and financial mismanagement.
Members expressed concerned about criminal ...