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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Vacancies: Programme & Advert; Removal of CGE commissioner for misconduct; Committee Annual Activities Report
7 Dec 2023
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss its programme for filling vacancies at the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). Among the issues raised were the importance of sign language services for the upcoming interviews with applicants, the contents, timing and placement of advertisements, and ensuring that the process would be ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Elimination of child pregnancies & protection of children against sexual exploitation: Department briefings (with Minister & Deputy Ministers present)
30 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Multiparty Women’s Caucus received briefings from the departments of Social Development, Basic Education and Health on the elimination of child pregnancies and the protection of children against sexual exploitation. The departments all agreed that the issues must be dealt with through a multi-sectoral approach, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: adoption; CGE Commissioner vacancies
28 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting the Portfolio Committee discussed and adopted its Public Hearings Report on the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Amendment Bill. The Committee adopted its motion of desirability, each of the clauses and the Bill. The more significant Committee amendments to the Bill were to Clauses 2, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Committee Interim Report on National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill, with Minister
23 Nov 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities met on the virtual platform to consider and adopt the Committee Interim Report on the National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill [B13-2022].
The Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities was present at the meeting.
Due to the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: proposed amendments; with Deputy Minister
21 Nov 2023
This was a short meeting for the Committee to formally adopt the Committee proposed amendments (A-List). At the next meeting, it will consider and adopt the B-version. The Committee will apply to the National Assembly for permission to add an amendment to a section in the prinicpal Act that ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: deliberations
7 Nov 2023
Deliberations on the National Youth Development Amendment Bill included the following points:
- Committee members noted that the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) had asked that career guidance should rather be the responsibility of the Department of Higher Education but the Committee wanted this included.
- The Committee agreed ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: DWYPD response to public submissions continued; with Deputy Minister
3 Nov 2023
The Portfolio Committee held a virtual meeting to continue its discussions on the responses of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) to oral and written submissions received on the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Amendment Bill.
The Committee considered what the correct classification of the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Amendment Bill: DWYPD response to public submissions; with Minister
31 Oct 2023
The Portfolio Committee had an in-person meeting to receive a briefing on the responses of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) to the public submissions on the National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill [B13-2022].
The Chairperson highlighted key resolutions that the Committee had made at its ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Remuneration of CGE Commissioners; DWYPD BRRR
20 Oct 2023
2023 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
The Committee met to consider and adopt two reports. The Committee first considered and adopted its report on the Draft Notice on the Determination of Remuneration of Independent Constitutional Institutions.
The Committee then deliberated on its Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) on ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
National Youth Development Agency 2022/23 Annual Report
17 Oct 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities met to consider the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) 2022/2023 Annual Report. The NYDA indicated that 100% of performance and a clean audit outcome had been achieved against the approved Annual Performance Plan (APP) ...