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Public Works and Infrastructure
High Level Panel recommendations: Public Works response; Committee Report on Gauteng oversight
27 Nov 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW) presented a report which covered the issues highlighted in the recommendations of the High Level Panel (HLP). The issues were employment creation and sustenance; the management of immovable assets; spatial planning and land-use management; and policy and legislation.
The Department’s Director General said the ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Annual Report & Legacy Report
21 Nov 2018
The meeting began with the Content advisor going through the financial statements of the Committee’s 2018 annual report and its 5th Parliament Legacy Report (2014 - 2019). There were a few technical and grammatical changes, and the reports were duly adopted by the Members.
The Chairperson raised a concern arising ...
Employment and Labour
Horse-racing grooms working conditions & Department inspections
14 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by a South African Racehorse trainer on the situation with trainers and labour legislation. The Committee had initially invited the Association of Trainers to come and explain some of the issues raised after an engagement with Phumelela Gaming and Leisure, but only the Racehorse trainer was ...
Employment and Labour
Minister on Jobs Summit 2018; Committee Legacy Report
7 Nov 2018
The portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Ministry of Labour on the 2018 Job Summit report. The Job Summit was aimed at addressing the unemployment challenge that was currently being faced in South Africa. Various social partners had agreed to work collaboratively in addressing this challenge for the benefit ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Independent Development Trust (IDT) restructuring; with Minister and Deputy Minister
6 Nov 2018
The Minister of Public Works told the Committee that the previous board of the Independent Development Trust (IDT) was fraught with corruption, and this claim had been substantiated by National Treasury (NT), although its findings had never been followed up. When the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the IDT had ...
Employment and Labour
Fourth Industrial Revolution impact on Labour; Labour Centres; High Level Panel recommendations
31 Oct 2018
The Committee received a presentation from the Research Unit in Parliament on the envisaged effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the labour sector. The presentation addressed how other countries are preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, concern for how labour matters will be navigated in South Africa, and it ...
Employment and Labour
Action Plan of CF in view of audit outcomes by AGSA; Labour Activation Programme of the UIF: DoL briefing
24 Oct 2018
The Compensation Fund presented its action plan to the Committee looking at progress made as at end September 2018. The presentation on the action plan of the Compensation Fund addressed where the Fund has come from, the reason for the action plan, objectives of the Fund and four pillars of ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Eastern Cape oversight
23 Oct 2018
The Committee met to consider and adopt its draft Follow-Up Oversight Visit Report to the Eastern Cape. During consideration Members raised matters in relation to the development of ports, especially in marginalized, underprivileged areas, progress made, the Coega Development Corporation, the Magistrates Court and working with the Eastern Cape provincial ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee considered the Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) on the Department of Labour as well as the minutes of 12 September, 10 and 11 October; the Report on the oversight visit to Gauteng and Free State Province; and the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Public Works & PMTE Budget Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Public Works adopted its Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) on the performance of the Department of Public Works and the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) in the 2017/18 financial year.
Deliberations focused on recommendations to the Minister ...