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Defence and Military Veterans
Hydrographic Bill: consideration of written submissions & Department response
12 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans met to consider the written submissions, and formal response by the Department of Defence (DoD) on the Hydrographic Bill.
The Portfolio Committee overall did not have a problem with the presentation except for a few amendments and definitions of the wording.
On ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence Quarter 1 performance & Committee recommendations implementation
29 Aug 2018
The Secretary for Defence presented the first quarter performance report which captured both financial and non-financial performance for the financial year of 2018/2019. The briefing addressed performance in the fourth quarter of the previous financial year, legislative requirements, framework for annual strategic plans and performance indicators. The presentation also looked ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Amendment Bill: finalisation
23 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans considered and passed the Defence Amendment Bill as well as the report on the Defence Amendment Bill.
The Committee further adopted the third term Committee programme.
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Amendment Bill: deliberations; Department of Military Veterans Quarter 1 performance
22 Aug 2018
The Department of Military Veterans presented a briefing on its performance and progress for the first quarter of 2018-19. The targeted spend in the first quarter had been R138m (22%) from the allocation of R627.1m. Actual expenditure had been R93.2m -- a variance of R44.8m. It had achieved none of ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission: DOD responses to recommendations; DRC Report
8 Jun 2018
The Department of Defence briefed the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on its performance for the 2017/18 financial year; and the South African national Defence Force (SANDF) briefed the Committee about the recommendations of the Interim Defence Force Service Commission.
The Department reported it has approved increased access to healthcare ...
Defence
NCACC Annual Reports: 2016 & 2017, with Ministers of Defence & Energy; Deployment resources funding; Mozambique Channel piracy; Department of Military Veterans status
7 Jun 2018
The Committee was briefed by the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) on its outstanding Annual Reports for 2016 and 2017. Ministers MsNosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula and Mr Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe were present at this meeting.
The NCACC reported that it had received a clean Audit for the Financial Year 2016 and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Committee Reports: Defence & Military Veterans Budget; SANDF troops in DRC
16 May 2018
The Committee considered and adopted two reports: Draft Budget Vote 19 Report: Defence and Military Veterans and Draft Report on 25 - 29 March 2018 visit to SANDF troops stationed in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as outstanding minutes.
Defence and Military Veterans
Office of the Military Ombud 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
10 May 2018
The Office of the Military Ombud briefed the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its annual performance / corporate plans for 2018/19 financial year and allocated budget to the Office. The Office’s brief focused on the strategic overview, programme and sub-programme plans, and risk management. The Office provided ...
Defence
Committee Business: Letters from the President; Second Term Committee Programme
3 May 2018
The Committee considered the letters from the President dated 26 March and April 2018. The Committee adopted the letters; however, the DA objected due to the delay in the receipt of the letters because Members were not granted sufficient time to follow up on the issues outlined on the letters. ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence Annual Performance Plan & Quarter 4 performance
2 May 2018
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans (DMV) had not yet decided how it was going to spend the rest of its 2018/19 budget, because there was a wrong distribution of resources within it. The DMV stated this when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on its budgetary allocation and ...