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Defence
South African National Defence Reserve Force on its mandate; capacity; challenges; and action plan
4 Jun 2015
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) briefed the Committee on the status and revitalization of the Force’s reserves. The main issues raised during the presentation dealt with transformation, budget cuts and constraints, training and the intake of reserves.
Transformation in the Defence Force was happening at a slow rate, ...
Joint Standing on Intelligence
Inspector General of Intelligence: 2nd short-listing for interviews by JSCI Sub-Committee & report-back
3 Jun 2015
In this meeting that was open to the public, the Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) shortlisted three names for interviews for the position of Inspector General of Intelligence. These names were amongst eighteen nominations submitted during a second call for nominations. In the first call for ...
Defence
SA National Defence Force on transformation progress, challenges, plans
28 May 2015
The South African National Defence Force briefed the Committee on transformation in the Force (SANDF). It was noted that mechanisms that facilitated transformation included transformational leadership at all levels, empowerment programmes, implementation of mentoring and coaching programmes and monitoring of programmes designed to enhance representivity. The Department had set up ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence 4th Quarter Performance Report 2014/15 & progress on strengthening Defence Works Formation; DMV 4th Quarter Performance Report 2014/15 & update on establishing & maintaining a reliable military veterans database
27 May 2015
The Secretary for Defence gave a summary of the quarterly performance targets, and outlined the programmes of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). These included Landward Defence, Air Defence, Military Health Support and Defence Intelligence. The budget allocation was R42.856 billion, of which the Department had spent R42.842 billion, or 99.97%. ...
Defence
Joint meeting with Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on Joint oversight visits and Study Tours
14 May 2015
The Committee as well as the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans met jointly to plan and deliberate on their oversight and study tour options for the year. Members debated on the merits of the study tours and considered visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia and Vietnam. The ...
Defence
Defence Review : Draft Committee Report adopted (objections from DA), Letters from President deferred
30 Apr 2015
The Committee met to adopt its Draft Report on the Defence Review. A DA Member had submitted a document, at a previous meeting, in which he set out 21 suggestions on the Defence Review, which had been circulated to and read by all Committee Members. Mr Maynier was given the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) 2015 Strategic plan and funding requirements
29 Apr 2015
Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) presented its Corporate Plan and strategic objectives for 2015, which were broadly aimed at improving accountability on the execution of the mandate, customer satisfaction through service delivery and financial responsibility, improving efficiency, effectiveness and economical service delivery as well as the utilisation of human ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
16 Apr 2015
The Department of Military Veterans briefed its oversight Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its strategic plans for 2015 to 2019 and it Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16. The presentations outlined the breakdown of the Medium-Term Expenditure Estimate of R582.2 million across its three programmes and the baseline. ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
The Committee Researcher gave an overview of the Department of Defence’s budget, estimates of national expenditure, strategic plan and annual performance plan. The Department’s budget had increased by 4% in the financial year, and stood at R44.579 billion. There were increases in all programmes except for Programme 4: Air Defence. ...
Defence
Defence Review 2014; deliberations & Committee Report on Defence Review 2014 public hearings
19 Mar 2015
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence met to consider and deliberate on the South African Defence Review 2014.The three functions of the Committee were specifically to comment, make recommendations and investigate any aspect of the Defence Review.
A Member of the Democratic Alliance had submitted a document outlining an alternative ...