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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Chapter 9 Institutions amalgamation: OISD progress report; with the Minister
5 Jun 2018
Members and representatives of the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) met with officials from the Office of the Institute Supporting Democracy (OISD) on the progress report dealing with the amalgamation of Chapter 9 Institutions, with special reference to the CGE.
The OISD said that two task teams had been formed ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
SALRC Adult Prostitution Report: Summit Recommendations; IEC initiatives on gender quotas for 2019 elections
30 May 2018
Document handed out: Report on Summit with Stakeholders on SALRC Report Project 107 Sexual Offences Adult prostitution; Draft Report of Summit with Stakeholders on the SALRC Report Project [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once available]
The Multiparty Women’s Caucus (MPWC) met to consider its reports on the SA Law Reform ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee observed that the Department of Women in the Presidency (DWP) had tabled its annual performance plan (APP) late, which would result in a finding against the Department, as confirmed by the Auditor General, and it wanted an explanation for this. The DWP had also not implemented some of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Annual Performance Plan: Content Adviser and Researcher input
2 May 2018
The Committee Researcher reported that the expenditure report indicates under Vote 13 that the Department for Women has spent R150.2 million of its available budget of R206.2 million. The expenditure represents 98.3% of the R152.8million projected expenditure for this period. Strategic objectives include the promotion of strategic leadership, gender knowledge, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE & Department of Women Annual Performance Plan: AGSA analysis & CGE briefing
24 Apr 2018
The Auditor-General South Africa briefed the Portfolio Committee on its review of the 2018/19 draft Annual Performance Plan of the Department of the Department of Women in the Presidency. The Auditor-General had not undertaken a review of the Annual Performance Plan of the Commission for Gender Equality. The purpose of ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
South African Law Reform Commission Report: Adult Prostitution: response by stakeholders
5 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women’s Caucus arranged a summit during which 30 stakeholders and interested parties provided responses to the Adult Prostitution Report produced by the South African Law Reform Commission on behalf of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Written submissions had been submitted in 2017.
The Chairperson indicated that ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Employment Equity Hearing on gender transformation in the workplace: Commission for Gender Equality briefing
27 Feb 2018
The Commission on Gender Equality made presentations on the Employment Equity Report for 2015/2016, and the 2015 research report assessing gender mainstreaming in the public service.
The first report was based upon the employment equity hearings conducted by the Commission. The intention of the study was to assess the impact ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency Quarter 2 performance
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Quarter 2 performance to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency.
Out of the 27 planned targets, 11 were achieved and 16 were not achieved. The 2nd quarter’s performance was the same as the 1st quarter despite there being more ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance
30 Jan 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 Annual Report. The Commission’s budgetary challenges were raised as a serious matter of concern, including the amalgamation. The Commission expressed its unhappiness about the processes involved in the attempts at amalgamation because it had its own brief which ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Lack of Transformation in Judiciary; African Commission on Human and People’s Rights: CGE reports
31 Oct 2017
Documents handed out: CGE Report on African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 2016 Session [awaited]; SA Country Report to the ACHPR [awaited]
The Commission for Gender Equality spoke about its Investigative Report into Lack of Transformation in the Judiciary. The persistent patriarchal nature of the South African judiciary was the ...