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Water and Sanitation
Irrigation Boards and Water Master Plan: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Deputy Minister
20 Jun 2017
The Committee met to be briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on progress with the transformation of the country’s irrigation boards and the development of a national water and sanitation master plan.
Before the start of the meeting, there was major concern over the late arrival of ...
Water and Sanitation
Overberg & Mhlatuze Water Board briefing on governance challenges, with Deputy Minister
14 Jun 2017
The meeting was called to discuss management and governance challenges at the Overberg and Mhlathuze Water Boards, but was coupled with the Director General (DG) of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) having to explain his failure to appear before the Committee at the previous meeting. In the event, ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality on its Quarter 4 performance
13 Jun 2017
The Commission for Gender Equality presented its report for the 4th quarter, on progress made by the institution in terms of its planned activities in order to reach its strategic objectives. Thus far, the institution has done well, most programmes and their reports have been finalised, and those not yet ...
Water and Sanitation
Overberg & Mhlathuze Water Board management and governance challenges postponed, with Deputy Minister
7 Jun 2017
The meeting to discuss the management and governance challenges at the Overberg and Mhlathuze Water Boards had to be abandoned after Members insisted it could not continue in the absence of the Director General (DG), who was the accounting officer and should have been present to deal with the serious ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water Affairs: hearing 2
31 May 2017
SCOPA had arranged the hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up to an unsatisfactory hearing in November 2016. In addition to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, the DWS accruals and commitments were added to the agenda. As it turned out, Committee came close to declaring the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women on Quarter 4 performance
30 May 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Committee Researcher and Content Adviser before meeting with the Department of Women. They highlighted concerns about the Department performance report especially that DoW met 48.7% of its goals for 2016/17 but they spent 99% of their allocated budget.
In the presentation, the Department ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Report on Water and Sanitation Budget
24 May 2017
The Committee met with officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation, to consider and adopt its report on the 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP) and Budget of the Department and entities supporting the work of the Department. During consideration of the report, the Committee was concerned it was adopting ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Committee Report on Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality Budget
23 May 2017
The Committee revised and edited its Draft Report on Women in the Presidency on Annual Performance Plan (Budget Vote 13) of the Department of Women in the Presidency and the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) for financial year 2017/18, dated 23 May 2017.
An area of concern was regarding oversight ...
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation Draft Policy: Department briefing
10 May 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on upcoming legislation. The thrust of the presentation was that the Department wanted to merge the National Water Act and Water Services Act into one piece of legislation. The presentation the covered the key drivers of this legislative ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister
9 May 2017
The Department of Women in the Presidency, which would be referred to as the Department henceforth, made a number of presentations. The first presentation was on the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT), which was about measuring the performance of the Department on particular practices. The purpose of these measurements was ...