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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 2 performance; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency in its Quarter 2 performance achieved 20 (69%) of its 29 targets, while nine (31%) were not achieved. There was an improvement by 9% for targets achieved from Quarter 1. The Department spent 44.9% of the adjusted annual budget by end of Quarter ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Irregularities in CGE Commissioners Term of Office; Advert Approval
31 Oct 2018
The Committee agreed on the programme to be adopted for the selection to fill the vacancies at the Commission for Gender Equality. Members were told that the qualifications for candidates to be nominated included no age, or any other, discrimination. The Chairperson also expressed her wish that a person with ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Abuse of women and children by religious leaders/sector: CRL Commission briefing
30 Oct 2018
The Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Commission (CRL Rights Commission) presented its recommendations to prevent the commercialisation of religion and the abuse and exploitation of people’s belief systems. There is a lack of proper regulation to control churches that are operating outside of ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Election of chairperson
24 Oct 2018
The Committee elected Ms C Ncube-Ndaba (ANC) to chair the Committee.
At the next meeting, the Committee intends to consider a draft competency framework, a draft advertisement for vacancies and a draft programme.
The Committee agreed to schedule meetings on Wednesday’s.
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Gender Transformation in Tertiary institutions; Sex workers wellbeing: CGE briefing; BRRR
23 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Budgetary Review and recommendations report (BRRR) and it was to be briefed by the Commission on Gender Equality on its report on Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions Hearings (University of Free State, Johannesburg and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency 2018/19 Annual Report; with Minister
17 Oct 2018
The Committee and the Department of women (DOW) met to discuss the questions the Committee had for the DOW regarding the 2017/2018 Annual Report. The Committee asked for explanation on points that lacked clarity as well as points of inquiry. The meeting with a prayer at the ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Sanitary Pads Initiative & Gender-Based Violence Summit update
4 Sep 2018
The Chairperson informed Members that the briefing of the current state of the National Gender Machinery Summit had been postponed due to the unavailability of Minister Bathabile Dlamini and the difficulties with getting hold of the people that were supposed to be working with her on this particular matter.
She ...
Police
Domestic Violence Act Reports: Civilian Secretariat & SAPS briefing with civil society input
28 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committees on Police and Women in the Presidency met jointly for the first of a two-day special focus on the Domestic Violence Act and Gender-Based Violence in SA. The South African Police Service (SAPS) presented its biannual report in terms of Section 18 (5) (d) of the Domestic ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 1 performance, with Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Women (DoW) presented its first quarter performance report for the 2018/19 financial year, with the Minister in attendance. The Minister stressed that a combined government and society-wide effort must be made to address the multi-dimensional issues of women.
The presentation covered the overall Departmental performance, as well ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women 2017/18 Quarter 3 & 4 performance
12 Jun 2018
The Department of Women (DoW) presented its quarter three and four performance for the 2017/18 financial year. The comprehensive presentation covered the strategic focus of the Department, organisational and budget programme structure, newly created posts and rationale for creating these posts. A comparison of the performance for quarter two and ...