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NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Mayibuye Road Transport Corporation Petition; Second Term Programme; 2014 Quarterly report deferred
18 Mar 2015
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings convened to consider and adopt reports and minutes. Only the Second Term Programme was adopted.
The Committee considered its draft report on the Mayibuye Road Transport Petition, but Members noted that it had come out that Mr Matshaya had been paid for ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission on its Annual Performance Plan 2015/16
17 Mar 2015
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. The Commission was dealing with issues of diminished heritage. The Commission had tackled the issue of initiation schools and the nation had taken ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Inter-Departmental Annual Report 2013/14; Schedule determining rates: Department of Justice
18 Feb 2015
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented the Inter-Departmental Annual Report of 2013/14, with a special focus on the implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (the Act), and the draft notice and schedules for determining the salaries of magistrates and judges.
In ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Committee guidelines and programme
18 Feb 2015
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings met to adopt the Committee guidelines, to consider the 2015 First Term Programme and the adoption of the draft minutes of Committee meetings in November 2014. The Committee agreed that Clause 9 of the Committee guidelines, covering the “submission of petition” process, ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Committee oversight report on visit to KZN adopted; Petitions guidelines deferred; Legacy petitions from 4th Parliament & current petitions report postponed; minutes & draft report of hearings on 5 November postponed
25 Nov 2014
The agenda for the meeting set out a number of matters that the Committee was due to consider, but although some fairly extensive discussions were held on process and what the Committee needed in order to fulfil its mandate, only the Committee's oversight report on its visit to KwaZulu Natal ...
NCOP Security and Justice
KwaZulu-Natal Oversight Report; Possible International Study Tour: deliberations; First Term Committee Programme 2015
19 Nov 2014
The Committee deferred the adoption of its Kwazulu-Natal Oversight Report to its next meeting as the Committee wished changes made to be incorporated before adoption. Some of the incorporations to be included in the Report were recommendations that the Department of Justice should set aside funds for the opening of ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Gender and racial transformation in higher education: Department of Higher Education and Training briefing; Committee oversight reports
11 Nov 2014
The Department of Higher Education and Training provided an overview of the rate of transformation in the higher education and training system. It was noted that there had been marked increases in the participation, enrolment and graduation numbers of African, Coloured and Indian students, compared to the 1993 base year. ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Legal Aid South Africa Bill: input from Department of Justice and Correctional Services, Law Society of South Africa & Legal Aid south Africa
5 Nov 2014
The Law Society South Africa's representative made a submission to the Committee in respect of the Legal Aid South Africa Bill, and the Committee asked also for comment on that submission from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, which summarised its own and the Legal Aid South Africa's remarks ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Mkhize and Sehume: petitions briefings and preliminary deliberations
5 Nov 2014
The Select Committee on the Petitions and Executive Undertakings deliberated on two petitions; the first from Mr Mkhize of the Gugulethu, Cape Town in relation to the death of his late wife Ms Matiwane, and the second from Mr Andrew Sehume from Gauteng Province. Although both had apparently made submissions ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates grievances: progress report; Legal Aid South Africa Bill: Department of Justice briefings, in presence of Minister
29 Oct 2014
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the progress in dealing with the grievances that the Magistrates associations had raised in regard to salary and conditions of service. They had essentially asked that the pension and medical aid ...