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Ad Hoc Committee on General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (NCOP) (2024)
GILAB: SSA briefing; with Minister
4 Apr 2024
The Ad Hoc Committee met to be briefed by the State Security Agency (SSA) on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) [B40-2003].
GILAB seeks to enable the President, through this legislation, to establish Domestic Service which shall be responsible for Counter-Intelligence and Intelligence gathering mandates and functions, and ...
Ad Hoc Committee on General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (NA) (2023)
GILAB: SSA response to submissions; with Minister
7 Mar 2024
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The Ad Hoc Committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill held a hybrid meeting to receive a briefing by the State Security Agency (SSA) on its response to submissions. The Minister in the Presidency was in the meeting.
The General Intelligence Laws Amendment ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SIU investigation reports submitted to the Presidency; with Minister
20 Feb 2024
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met in Parliament to receive an update from the Presidency on the investigation reports submitted by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
The update by the Presidency indicated that since 2001, 245 Presidential Proclamations authorising SIU investigations had been issued. 42% of which has been ...
Ad Hoc Committee on General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (NA) (2023)
General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill: State Security Agency briefing (with Minister present)
29 Nov 2023
The Ad Hoc Committee met to be briefed by the State Security Agency (SSA) on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) [B40-2003].
GILAB seeks to enable the President, through this legislation, to establish Domestic Service which shall be responsible for Counter-Intelligence and Intelligence gathering mandates and functions, and Foreign ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Update by Presidency on all reports referred by the SIU, with Minister present
13 Jun 2023
The Minister in the Presidency provided an update to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the investigation reports submitted by the SIU.
The Committee had identified that after the SIU investigations were concluded and reports filed, they needed to go back to the originator of the proclamation: the ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC Turnaround Plan; DCDT on Analogue Switch-Off, BDM Policy & Competition Commission Report; with Minister
21 Feb 2023
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC Board recommendations: adoption; SA Postbank Ltd Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
24 Nov 2022
Committee Report on the filling of 12 board vacancies on South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
The Portfolio Committee was presented with its Sub-Committee report on the recommended candidates for the SABC Board. Members of the full Committee were hesitant to adopt the report as they had reservations about two ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Department response to the SA Postbank Limited Amendment Bill submissions; Public Protector Reports; with Minister
1 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies on its responses to the South African Postbank Limited Amendment Bill. It also received a response from the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) on the Public Protector’s Report 113 of 2021/22. ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Postbank Limited Amendment Bill: public hearings; with Minister
25 Oct 2022
The Committee met virtually to hold public hearings on the South African Post Bank Ltd Amendment Bill from the Ombudsman for Banking Services, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA), Right2Know and the Financial Services Conduct Authority (FSCA).
The Bill seeks to ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Minister Update on Broadcasting Digital Migration; SABC Board recommendations
27 Sep 2022
The Committee met virtually to receive an update from the sub-committee on filling the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board vacancies, and from the Department on the Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) project following the Constitutional Court's judgment on the analogue television signal switch-off date.
The Chairperson said advice had ...