Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs Annual Report 2015/16: Auditor-General and Department's briefings: Minister and Deputy Minister present
6 Dec 2016
Annual Reports 2015/16
The Minister and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs were present at the meeting. The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the audit outcomes for 2015/16 of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The Annual Report had only just been submitted to Parliament. The AGSA stated ...
Home Affairs
Congolese Community of South Africa submission; Border Management Amendment Bill: consideration; 2017 Programme
29 Nov 2016
The Committee considered amendments to the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill. It had gone through all the amendments that had been proposed in previous meetings, and these had to be adopted and incorporated into the bill prior to considering it clause by clause. Amendments that had been made would affect ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill: deliberations; Constitutional Court ruling on search and seizure without a warrant
8 Nov 2016
The Chairperson noted that the letter sent to the National Treasury for compensation of employees was responded to and the response was immediately sent to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to consider and it was expecting the DHA to brief the Committee on that response. He noted that there ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: deliberations; Department Home Affairs Annual Report: reasons for delay
1 Nov 2016
Border Management Authority Bill A- version
In his opening remarks, the Chairperson reminded Members that the progress on the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill was effectively on hold, as it was dependent on the outcome of meetings to be held between the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Finance and ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: deliberations
25 Oct 2016
A State Law Advisor provided a legal opinion on the Border Management Authority Bill (BMA Bill) which had been requested following questions from a Member at the previous meeting. The concerns had to do with the functions of the Border Management Authority and whether this was necessarily depriving the SA ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Joint Rules amendments arising from 9th Edition of National Assembly Rules
21 Oct 2016
National Assembly Rules 9th Edition : May 2016
Joint Rules 6th Edition : June 2011
The Committee held a workshop to discuss the amendments to the Joint Rules arising from the 9th Edition of the National Assembly Rules. The new Joint Rules responded comprehensively to the principles and detailed provisions ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: discussion on way forward
18 Oct 2016
Due to the letter the Committee received from the Minister of Finance advising it not to deliberate on the South African Revenue Services (SARS) related matters, the Committee resolved to refer the Border Management Authority Bill to the concerned departments for further engagement.
The Committee noted that the letter required ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill: deliberations; Government Printing Works & Electoral Commission 2015/16 Annual Reports
12 Oct 2016
The Electoral Commission briefed the Committee on the 2015/16 Annual Reports. Strategic outcome-oriented goals included to strengthen governance, institutional excellence and professionalism, to enable business processes at all levels of the organisation; to achieve pre-eminence in the area of managing elections and referenda, including strengthening of a cooperative relationship with ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Amendment Bill: Department response to submissions
20 Sep 2016
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) said that the presentation was to clarify some contextual matters that had informed the Department’s responses to public comments on the Border Management Authority (BMA) bill. The presentation covered the proposed institutional form of the BMA, to be under one government authority. This would ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill [B9-2016]: Department response to submissions & deliberations
14 Sep 2016
The Committee Researcher and Legal Adviser from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) took Members through the various submissions that had been presented at the public hearings on the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill. The submissions had been grouped under broad headings related to the clauses of the Bill. General ...