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Telecommunications and Postal Services
International Telecommunications Regulations, World Radio Communications Conference Final Acts, with Minister; Committee Report on Cost to Communicate
15 Nov 2016
Ratification of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR)
The Minister, Mr Cwele, said it was important that South Africa ratified the regulations because the old regulations were outdated and affected the interoperability of mobile telephony which had increased dramatically since 1988 and to increase the transparency on pricing which needed to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Special Investigating Unit investigations in Telecommunications and Postal Services, with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2016
The Chairperson noted the lack of updates on the progress of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigations affected the Committee’s ability to do its oversight work. The Deputy Minister added that the Department could not follow up matters contained in SIU reports to the President, because the report belonged to ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Legislation & international agreements implementation/review: DHET progress report; CATHSSETA on its Annual Report 2015/16
2 Nov 2016
The delegates of DHET briefed the Committee on progress on the implementation of the International agreements and on legislation due for review. The main drivers for educational cooperation are the exchange of best practices and benchmarking in a global context, pursuing international opportunities for human resource and ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
SAQA & CHE on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
26 Oct 2016
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) noted that 92% of its 50 annual targets were achieved; of which six targets were exceeded and four targets were partially achieved. It received an unqualified audit outcome and 92% of the budget was spent. Key achievements were for the year ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Telecommunications and Postal Services Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Acting Chairperson of the Committee presented the Committee’s draft Budget Review and Recommendations Report on the Department’s 2015/16 annual report for consideration. Members corrected various typographical, grammar and style errors. The report was adopted as amended.
The Committee then received a ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Joint Rules amendments arising from 9th Edition of National Assembly Rules
21 Oct 2016
National Assembly Rules 9th Edition : May 2016
Joint Rules 6th Edition : June 2011
The Committee held a workshop to discuss the amendments to the Joint Rules arising from the 9th Edition of the National Assembly Rules. The new Joint Rules responded comprehensively to the principles and detailed provisions ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Sentech, USAASA, USAF & NEMISA on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
18 Oct 2016
Sentech had received a clean audit, was sustainable, generating cash and growing its asset base even though market conditions for the year under review had been difficult to navigate. In the medium to long term, it was running two networks and needed to refresh the analogue network ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Procedure for Motions without Notice; Guidelines and Determinations for the Rules; Oral Replies to Questions
14 Oct 2016
The Subcommittee on the Review of the National Assembly Rules along with its NCOP counterpart will review the Joint Rules before the State of the Nation Address is delivered next year.
The Subcommittee discussed the procedure for motions without notice, the guidelines and determinations for the revised National Assembly Rules, ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SITA & Broadband Infraco on 2015/16 Annual Report
13 Oct 2016
State Information Technology Agency (Proprietary) Limited Annual Report
The Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services met with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Broadband Infraco (BBI) for the presentation of their annual reports.
SITA said that changes had been made in its macro organisational structure to ensure ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Department of Higher Education and Training 2015/16 Annual Report: Auditor-General briefing
12 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training and the Select Education on Education and Recreation convened for a joint briefing on the audit outcomes by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA).
AGSA noted an improvement for the overall audit outcomes of this portfolio with a noticeable increase in clean audits ...