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Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: oral submissions
25 Oct 2018
VIDEO: Constitutional Review Committee Oral Presentations, 25 October 2018
The African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) said the Land Audit Report of 2017 glaringly shows the land ownership patterns in South Africa as skewed towards whites and corporate entities. The previous land reform programmes were a mere piecemeal with ...
NCOP Education, Sciences and Creative Industries
Department of Higher Education and Training 2017/18 Annual Report; with Deputy Minister
24 Oct 2018
The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training said that the 2017/18 year had been very eventful. The Department had been in recovery mode since the student protests which had been centred on the demand for free higher education, and the broad transformation issues within the sector. ...
NCOP Social Services
National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill [B15B-2017]: Final Mandates; National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [16B-2017]: briefing
23 Oct 2018
The National Department of Health briefed the Committee on the National Public Health Institute of SA (NAPHISA) Bill.
The Bill sought to establish the NAPHISA as a legally defined organ of state the aim of which was to provide integrated and coordinated disease and injury surveillance, research, monitoring and evaluation ...
NCOP Social Services
National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill [B15B-2017]: negotiating mandates
9 Oct 2018
The Select Committee on Social Services met to consider negotiating mandates on the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) Amendment Bill. The Committee received mandates from all the provinces, except Northern Cape. The province has not finalised its negotiating mandate, because the public hearings have been postponed. All provinces voted in ...
NCOP Education, Sciences and Creative Industries
Committee Report on Revised Addis Convention on Recognition of Higher Education Studies
11 Sep 2018
The Committee reviewed 9 sets of minutes. Led by the Chairperson, the Committee went through them individually, page-by-page. Members were satisfied that the minutes were an accurate reflection of the proceedings and approved them without amendments.
The Committee – through the support of 5 provinces - adopted the Revised Addis ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: public hearings day 2
5 Sep 2018
VIDEO: Constitutional Review Committee: Oral Presentations 5 September 2018
The meeting was the second phase of facilitating public consultation on the proposed amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution to clearly provide for expropriation without compensation. The first phase had already been conducted by the Committee in the various South ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: public hearings day 1
4 Sep 2018
Video: Constitutional Review Committee: Oral Presentations 4 September 2018
The Committee heard oral submissions from Agribusiness South Africa (AgBiz), Grain South Africa (GSA), Professor Elmien du Plessis and the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD) in the morning session.
Members asked Agribusiness South Africa (AgBiz) what was meant by ‘just compensation’ ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Public Hearings on Review of Section 25 of Constitution (26 July - 4 August 2018)
17 Jul 2018
In February 2018, the National Assembly adopted a motion proposed by the EFF, with amendments by the ANC, that Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee investigate mechanisms through which land can be expropriated without compensation. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee was mandated by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill [B33-2017]: finalisation
26 Jun 2018
The Committee met to deliberate on its Report to the House on the Political Party Funding Bill. The important matters to deliberate were the public comments and submissions received in response to the Bill. The Committee had to determine whether the proposals for amendments would be accepted or rejected.
The ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill: public hearing
20 Jun 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Represented Political Parties convened a public hearing for oral submissions on the Political Party Funding Bill. The Committee had received 11 written submissions and seven of the organisations that had made submissions indicated that they wished to make an oral submission. In ...