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Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Committee Programme: adoption
25 Jun 2015
The Committee adopted the programme on probing violence against foreigners. Because of the serious issues involved, Members were asked to give priority to this Committee, even at the expense of constituency work and oversight visits. The House Chairman would be asked to extend the deadline for the submission of the ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
International Convention on Standard of Training, Certification & Watch keeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel: Department of Transport briefing
23 Jun 2015
The Select Committee on Economic Development met to receive a briefing from the Department of Transport (DOT) on the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch Keeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel, 1995(STCW-F) in terms of Section 231 (2) of the Constitution. The Department provided Members with details of ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Consumer Tribunal on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
17 Jun 2015
The National Consumer Tribunal (NCT) said its mandate had been expanded by the National Credit Amendment Act, No 19 of 2014. The definition of prohibited conduct had been amended and through this amendment it had expanded the number and types of prohibited conduct that can be brought before the NCT. ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Regulator on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
10 Jun 2015
The National Credit Regulator mandate included promoting transparency and fairness within the South African consumer credit market. It presented the outputs and outcomes for its five programmes such as reducing the levels of over-indebtedness to improving compliance with regulations. These programmes included quarterly milestones, projected budget figures, organisation goals/targets and ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Youth Development Agency on its functional programmes & alignment to government policy objectives to create work for young people
9 Jun 2015
The Select Committee on Economic and Business Development was told that the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) had been established in 2009 following a merger between the Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) and the National Youth Commission (NYC). Its role was to facilitate the development of South African youths in all ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Election of Chairperson
4 Jun 2015
The Committee met briefly to conclude the election of the co-chairpersons for the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals. Those elected were Ms N Bhengu (ANC) and Mr T Motalshuping (ANC; North West) No further recommendations or proposals were discussed.
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Lotteries Board on its 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan and developments
3 Jun 2015
The National Lotteries Board (NLB) had distributed more than R18 billion to good causes since inception 16 years ago. The Lotteries Amendment Act came into effect on 14 April 2015 with the main changes being that the National Lotteries Board (NLB) was renamed the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), that there ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Transport 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans, with Minister in attendance
2 Jun 2015
A large delegation from the Department of Transport (DOT), led by Ms Dipuo Peters, Minister of Transport, delivered its Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16 and its Strategic Plan for 2015/16-2019/20. It dealt, among other things, with four key service delivery areas: road rehabilitation, road safety, rural access and public transport. ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
South African Tourism on its 2015 Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan
27 May 2015
South African (SA) Tourism briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan noting that the presentation was quite abridged, but later offering to send through more details to the Committee. Its three main areas of focus were leisure tourism business, the National Convention Bureau and the Tourism ...