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Defence
Investigation on Food poisoning of soldiers in Mozambique & Presidential Letters; with the Deputy Minister
21 Apr 2022
The South African Military Ombud (SAMO) briefed the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on its investigation into allegations of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members suffering from food poisoning. This came after reports that the SANDF members fell ill after consuming rotten meat and vegetables at the Pemba ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Procurement of Heberon from Cuba: Minister & Deputy response to MTT findings; Analysis of Defence Portfolio APP & Budget
20 Apr 2022
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Defence
Defence and Military Vets
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans met on a virtual meeting platform for a briefing by Minister on the Departmental responses to the findings of the Ministerial Task Team on the procurement of Heberon medication from ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
GBVF NSP: Department report-back on Pillar 2
31 Mar 2022
National Strategic Plan on GBV and Femicide
02 Sep 2021 |
In a virtual meeting, the Multiparty Women’s Caucus was briefed by various departments and agencies on ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DOD update on budget cuts, irregular expenditure on the compensation of employees & funding of exit mechanism for military personnel; with Deputy
23 Mar 2022
The Committee met with the Department of Defence (DoD) on a virtual platform to receive briefings on the progress of its engagements with National Treasury on its budget cuts, assistance to the DoD to curb irregular expenditure on the compensation of employees, funding of an exit mechanism for military ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Project Thusano and related matters: AGSA input, with Deputy Minister
16 Mar 2022
The Portfolio Committee met on a virtual meeting platform for a briefing by the Auditor-General of South Africa on its findings and recommendations relating to Project Thusano. In 2012, the Department of Defence entered into a bilateral agreement with the government of the Republic of Cuba for defence cooperation. This ...
Defence
Reserve Force challenges; with Deputy Minister
10 Mar 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) received a briefing on the challenges facing the Reserve Force. The Committee was made aware that this contingent of the armed forces is without a properly constituted leadership. The former Chief of the SANDF Reserves, General Anderson, had ...
In a virtual meeting, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence received a briefing from Denel and the Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) on the management of defence intellectual property and Denel's maintenance of defence equipment. The Committee was also briefed on the progress of the investigation into allegations ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee Legacy Report & Public Submission Reports
20 Mar 2019
The Committee met to adopt the following: all outstanding minutes from 2017 to the present; reports on public submissions for 2016, 2017/18 and the committee’s legacy report. All the minutes were adopted with minor amendments while the public submission and legacy reports respectively were adopted with no amendments.
Members extolled ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee Legacy Report
20 Mar 2019
Available here once published: Legacy Reports
The Content Advisor briefed the Committee on the draft Legacy Report. The document focused on key highlights of the work of the Committee for the last five years.
The Content Advisor said that during the Fifth Parliament, the Committee’s responsibility or scope of work increased. ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee Reports on 2016, 2017 & 2018 public submissions; Legacy Report
14 Mar 2019
The Committee met for the consideration of reports on 2016 and 2017 public submissions as well as the Legacy Report. The reports would be put up for adoption during the next meeting when the Committee constitutes a quorum.
Members noted some minor typological errors which needed to be addressed by ...