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Committee Oversight Reports; Committee Report on Department’s Quarter 1 2017/18 Performance
15 Nov 2017
The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Western Cape Province was adopted unamended. Issues that had emerged from the oversight visit were security of cities, grading and also the renaming of “Eden” to the “Garden Route”. The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Limpopo ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Parliamentary Villages; Expanded Public Works Programme job creation: Public Works briefing, with Deputy Minister
14 Nov 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Public Works (DPW) on the progress made with the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), and on the status of the prestige accommodation programme at the Parliamentary villages.
The DPW described the progress made since the beginning of the EPWP n 2004, the ...
Tourism
Western Cape Province state of tourism: WESGRO briefing
8 Nov 2017
Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency (WESGRO) briefed the Committee on the state of tourism in the Western Cape Province.
Part of what WESGRO did was to lead trade missions, facilitate investment into priority sectors and to grow leisure and business tourism. The Western Cape was the only province ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Eastern Cape oversight visit
7 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee met for the consideration and adoption of minutes of previous meetings. The Committee also considered the Oversight Report on the visit to the Eastern Cape undertaken on 11 to 15 September 2017.
Tourism
Signage on routes to World Heritage Sites and tourism sites: South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) briefing
3 Nov 2017
The Department of Transport and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited briefed the Committee on the provision of signage on routes to World Heritage Sites (WHS) and other sights of significance in SA.
They reported that all road signage had to be done in accordance with specific legislation that ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Payments within 30-day period: Public Works briefing, with Deputy Minister
31 Oct 2017
The Committee met with Department of Public Works (DPW) and Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) to receive a brief on the Enterprise Resource System (ERS), a tool proposed to be used for improving payments to suppliers within the required 30-day period.
Highlights of the brief included the operating context of ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Prestige Programme for Parliament & Parliamentary Villages: DPW and PMTE briefing
24 Oct 2017
The Committee elected Mr H Mmemezi (ANC) as the new Committee Chairperson.
Members voiced their displeasure at not receiving a detailed briefing on the Department’s multi-million Rand prestige property portfolio‚ which dealt with the maintenance of Parliament, ministerial houses and parliamentary villages that house lawmakers. The Department had been requested ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 1 performance, with Deputy Minister
20 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister said that the South African economy was not growing as it should. However tourism growth was good. Tourism had created 700 000 job and contributed 9% to SA’s Growth Domestic Product. The past year had been tourism’s seventh year of sustained growth. There was a 13% growth in ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA; DPME & NYDA; Stats SA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2017
The Committee considered and approved three reports:
DPSA and entities Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
DPME & NYDA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
Stats SA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
Members corrected minor grammatical and spelling errors in all the reports. In addition, they removed paragraphs from the recommendations section ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works audit action plan, with Deputy Minister
17 Oct 2017
The Department of Public Works (DPW) presented a three-part plan of action to deal with the issues raised by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) in its findings regarding the performance of the DPW and its entity, the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) during the past financial year.
Following ...