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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women 2016/17 Annual Report: Committee Staff briefing
10 Oct 2017
Committee Members met for the first hour, after which the Department of Women was meant to attend for a discussion on their Annual Report. Because the Department was running late, the meeting was adjourned early, leaving time only for a presentation on the analysis and assessment of the Report by ...
Water and Sanitation
Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, Water Research Commission, Inkomati Usuthu Catchment Management Agency, Breede Gouritz Catchment Management Agency 2016/17 Annual Report
5 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met with the water agencies that fall within the ambit of the Department of Water and Sanitation. Although the entities had clean audits and sound administration, there was apparently too little money for nine Catchment Management Agencies. Based on ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor General + National Treasury input, with the Minister
4 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation was briefed by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes for the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) for the 2016/17 financial year and by DWS on its 2016/17 Annual Report.
The AGSA noted that DWS ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
6 Sep 2017
Documents handed out: Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit [All Committee reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Joint Oversight Report was adopted with amendments that included comments made by the members of the Portfolio Committee of Women in the Presidency, the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Programme
6 Sep 2017
The Chairperson briefed the Committee on the meeting held on 5 September where quarter 3 and 4 reports as well as the North-West oversight were discussed.
Members raised the issue that there were instances where the Committee had to play the role of local government in dealing with the bucket ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 1 performance
5 Sep 2017
Still basking in the glory of Women’s Month and being showered with compliments, it was a good encounter for the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) briefing the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency. Not having the clout it should, as a Constitutionally Established Body, was a major concern. The ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance; with Minister
23 Aug 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Water and sanitation on its first quarter report for 2017/18. Before the briefing, the Committee discussed the recently concluded oversight visit where a situation between a Department official, Ms Zandile Mathe and the Committee Whip, Mr H Chauke (ANC) ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on Quarter 1 performance
22 Aug 2017
Despondency about whether the situation with unachieved targets would ever change was expressed when the Department of Women in the Presidency (DOW) presented the report on its first quarterly performance. The Department had spent 22.3% of their budget -- R45.9 million of the appropriated R206.1 million - but out of ...
Water and Sanitation
Section 32 Public Finance Management Act reports: NT briefing; Overberg Water Board: DWS & Overberg Water; with Minister
28 Jun 2017
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) Budget Vote 36, and reported that it had overspent its R15.52 billion allocation by R18.9 million (0.1%). The overspending was related to the Department’s infrastructure programmes. However, there had also been under-spending in other programmes.
A key ...
Water and Sanitation
Construction Unit: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Minister
21 Jun 2017
The Department gave a brief background of the history of the Construction Management Unit (CMU), saying that since the unit’s inception the approach had always been labour intensive until after 1998 when personnel on a contract basis was allowed. The presentation spoke to the staffing of the five CMU regions ...