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Committee Report on Home Affairs Budget; Committee Report on Annual Operational/Performance Plan
19 Apr 2016
The Committee met to consider its report on the Department of Home Affairs Budget. The report highlighted that the Department simply did not have money. There were certain implications arising out of its assignation to the Security Cluster, and it was suggested that it must continue to engage with National ...
Home Affairs
Committee Report on Home Affairs Budget
12 Apr 2016
Documents handed out:
Committee Report on Home Affairs Budget
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee met to consider and adopt its report on the Budget Vote of the Department, but this was deferred and instead it was noted that this would ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Commission and Government Printing Works on 2016/17 Annual Performance Plans
5 Apr 2016
The Government Printings Works (GPW) and Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) briefed the Committee on their annual performance plans and budgets for the 2016/17 financial year, as well as their strategic plans for the near future.
The GPW said that it produced passports, identity documents, examination books and official gazettes. One ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs Strategic & Annual Performance Plan for 2016/17; Immigration Amendment Bill, 2015: deliberations; Consideration of a Candidate to fill a vacancy in Electoral Commission, with Minister in attendance
15 Mar 2016
The presentation of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) focused on its budget and annual performance plan for the 2016/17 financial year, and its five-year goals as outlined in the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) from 2014 to 2019. The Minister of Home Affairs provided detailed background to the Department’s ...
Home Affairs
Asylum statistics: Department Home Affairs briefing; Immigration Amendment Bill 2016 deliberations
8 Mar 2016
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) gave the Committee an overview of the 2015 Asylum Trends, describing the analysis of applications, the refugee determinations, the numbers of asylum seekers fro countries internationally and from Africa, the results of the determinations, manifestly unfounded cases, review and withdrawal processes, and the determinations ...
Home Affairs
Immigration Regulations: update by Inter-Ministerial Committee; Asylum & Travel statistics, with Minister
1 Mar 2016
The presentation of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) focussed on the implementation of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) recommendations in relation to the unintended consequences of the immigration regulations, and on the 2015/16 festive season operations at Immigration Ports of Entry.
For implementation of the IMC recommendations, measures had been ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs on 2015/16 2nd & 3rd Quarter performance
23 Feb 2016
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on its Second and Third Quarter 2015/16 Expenditure and Performance Reports. After briefly summarising the DHA’s vision, mission and values, outcomes and strategic objectives slides were presented on progress achieved in July-December against targets, the ten major challenges in this period ...
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2016 Municipal Elections: Independent Electoral Commission report; Immigration Amendment Bill: Committee report adoption and presentation of public submissions, with Minister present
16 Feb 2016
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) outlined the state of readiness for the 2016 municipal election. Points were raised and discussed around the reduction of category B municipalities, the factoring in of the Tlokwe Constitutional Court decision to IEC operations, finalising of matters concerning the election day recruitment process and the ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals Report: adoption of final report
18 Nov 2015
The Ad hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence against Foreign Nationals met to attempt to finalise its report, and to adopt minutes of previous meetings. The Committee deliberated extensively on the draft Report but could not finalise the matter, or adopt the minutes, because it did not quorate at the ...
Home Affairs
Deputy Minister request for Immigration Act amendment on people who overstay or are illegal foreigners
18 Nov 2015
Parliamentary Legal Advisors, in the presence of Ms Fatima Chohan, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, presented to the Committee a legislative proposal to introduce a Committee Bill to amend the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 in terms of National Assembly Rule 230(1). Members were briefed on the rationale for the ...