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Sport, Arts and Culture
Operational funding shortfall for museums and plans to address this: DSAC briefing; with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2022
The Portfolio Committee was briefed in a virtual meeting by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture on the funding shortfall for museums, and the long term plan and reprioritisation of R21 million in the 2022/23 budget to address this matter. It was told that COVID-19 had hurt businesses ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
KZN Community Education and Training College on governance, administration, teaching and learning and related matters
4 Nov 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Community Education and Training (CET) college, its Student Representative Council (SRC), as well as the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation (DHET) briefed the Committee in a virtual meeting. The KZN CET briefed the Committee on governance; administration; teaching ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
SSETA, InSETA & CETA Annual Reports 2021/22
2 Nov 2022
The Committee met virtually with the Services, Insurance and Construction Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) to receive briefings and engage on their 2021/22 annual reports. All the SETAs focused on matters involving irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure; consequence management implemented against transgressors in their organisations; audit action plans; ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
International Agreements between RSA & Nigeria and Cȏte d’Ivoire
1 Nov 2022
The Committee was briefed in a virtual meeting by the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture (DSAC) on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between South Africa and the Republic of Cȏte d'Ivoire on cooperation in the field of sport and physical education, signed in South Africa on 22 July. ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Skills Fund (NSF) Annual Report 2021/22; NSF investigation: Ministerial Task Team Review & Forensic report response; Implementation of audit action plan response
28 Oct 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to receive a presentation from the National Skills Fund (NSF) on its 2021/21 annual performance report, and to hear the response from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to the Committee's questions following the ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Skills Fund investigation: Ministerial Task Team Review & Forensic report; Implementation of audit action plan; with Deputy Minister
26 Oct 2022
The Committee met virtually with the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to receive briefings on the reports of the Ministerial Task Team on the review of the National Skills Fund (NSF) and its forensic report into the misappropriation of R5 billion from the Fund. The Department reported ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Presidential Employment Stimulus 3 progress by NAC & others; Sport, Arts, Culture BRRR
25 Oct 2022
The National Arts Council (NAC) reported on the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP3) outcomes; adjudication and approval process and way forward. It had more demand than supply for the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP3) as it received more than 4 000 applicants but it lacked the resources. There were ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
CSIR, NRF & TIA Annual Report 2021/22
21 Oct 2022
The Committee convened in a virtual meeting for briefings on the 2021/22 Annual Reports by the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), National Research Foundation (NRF), and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The Committee was concerned that the over-achievement in a number of targets, reported by the entities, ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
AGSA briefing on audit outcomes of DSI and its entities; Department of Science and Innovation, HSRC & South African National Space Agency Annual Reports 2021/22
19 Oct 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science, and Innovation received a briefing from the Auditor-General of South Africa on the audit outcomes of the Department of Science and Innovation and its entities, and briefings by the Department itself, the Human Sciences Research ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Department of Sport, Arts and Culture Annual Report 2021/22
18 Oct 2022
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture presented its annual report for the 2021/22 financial year on a virtual platform. The Department reported that the year under review was characterised by Covid19, the July unrest, KZN floods and gender-based violence and femicide. The Department has ...