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Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill: Motion of Desirability; IEC Commissioner Recommendation; with Deputy Minister
31 May 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
Awaited document: Motion of Desirability
In this virtual meeting, the Committee considered and adopted the Motion of Desirability on the Electoral Amendment Bill [B1 - 2022]. The motion – pending the inclusion of the requirement for general proportionality - ...
Home Affairs
2021 Local Government Elections IEC Report; IEC Commissioner Vacancy: OCJ Report
20 May 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (the Committee) convened a virtual meeting for a briefing by the Independent Electoral Commission (the IEC) on the 2021 Local Government Elections (LGE) report and to consider the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) report on ...
Home Affairs
Election of Chairperson; DHA & SITA on war on queues and chronic network downtimes at DHA offices; with Ministers and Deputies
31 Aug 2021
The Committee convened in a virtual meeting to be briefed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) on efforts to address the long queues and the network challenges at the branches of the DHA.
The DHA told the Committee that factors that ...
Home Affairs
Home Affairs 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan; with Ministry
4 May 2021
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) virtual briefing on its 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan and budget emphasised its underfunding and the challenges that COVID-19 has brought. The Committee was taken through the targets that the Department wants to achieve such as birth registrations, passports and smart identity ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill: public hearings day 2
24 Mar 2021
Video: Ad Hoc Committee on Legislation Amending Section 25 of the Constitution 24 March 2021
Consolidated Report on Public Hearings
Section 25 Review Process
The Committee met on a virtual platform to conduct Day 2 of the public hearings on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill.
Welcoming Committee Members ...
Home Affairs
Joint Electoral Reform Workshop; with Minister & Deputy Minister
16 Mar 2021
Video: Electoral Reform Workshop, 16 March 2021
Legal Opinion on New Nation Court Judgment 22 June 2020
New Nation Movement NPC & Others v President of RSA & Others (CCT110/19) [2020] ZACC 11 (11 June 2020)
The Electoral Reform virtual workshop was held jointly by the Portfolio Committee on ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Laws A/B: finalisation
12 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, 12 March 2021
The Committee convened virtually to consider and adopt the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill and its report on the Bill. The Bill was adopted without the support of the DA and EFF.
The Committee received a report on the NCOP proposed amendments ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Laws A/B: NCOP amendments; Statelessness in SA; DHA Report back on Committee Resolutions: with Minister & Deputy Minister
9 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs [NA]
In this virtual meeting, the Committee received a briefing from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Inclusion of oral submissions as part of public participation process & committee extension
5 Mar 2021
Consolidated Report on Public Hearings
Section 25 Review Process
In this virtual meeting, the Committee discussed whether to permit oral submissions as part of the public participation process.
Members agreed to do so but clarified that the public participation process would be for public oral submissions, not public hearings or ...
Home Affairs
Refugee bodies on their work & challenges concerning Refugees & Asylum Seekers; with Minister & Deputy Minister
2 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs - 2nd March 2021
The purpose of this virtual meeting was for the Committee to be briefed by the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs (SCRA) and the Refugee Appeals Authority of South Africa (RAASA) on their work and challenges in dealing with refugees and ...