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Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Committee Report on Donation of Wild Life Game animals by North West DRDLR
6 Sep 2017
Documents handed out: Committee Report on Donation of Wild Life Game animals by North West DRDLR [All Committee reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee of Environmental Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries were not able to adopt the report, mainly because the Chairperson of Agriculture, ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Ministerial committees of inquiry; SRSA Quarter 1 performance; Mainstreaming; Mass Participation & Development Grant results; with the Minister
5 Sep 2017
The Minister of Sport and Recreation, Mr Thulas Nxesi briefed the Portfolio Committee on Sports and Recreation on the establishment of the Committees of Inquiry to investigate alleged irregularities in the governance and management of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and to investigate facts and events ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Tennis SA briefing; Committee Reports
13 Jun 2017
The Committee received a briefing from Tennis South Africa (TSA) on its governance, financials, transformation plan, development plan and implementation, and related matters.
The core aim of TSA was transformation, transparency, and performance. It faced challenges with regard to the lack of female participation in the sport, and the federation ...
Transport
C-BRTA, RAF & PRASA on their Annual Performance Plans
9 May 2017
The Cross-Border Road Transport Agency (C-BRTA), the Road Accident Fund (RAF) and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) briefed the Committee on their annual performance plans, strategic plans and budgets..
C-BRTA said there were 53 land border posts between South Africa and neighbouring countries, 19 of which were ...
Basic Education
Infrastructure and Rationalisation; Provincial Education Departments Reporting System review
7 Mar 2017
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) gave a presentation on the progress of the Provincial Education Department (PED) reporting systems and how the information received directly from provinces is utilised by the DBE for accounting and reporting purposes. This mandate was given to the DBE by National Treasury in May ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department on its Third Quarter Performance, with Minister & Deputy in attendance
28 Feb 2017
The Minister reported an unemployment rate of 26.7%, this is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 27.1% of Quarter 2, 2016. The labour force increased by 143 000. 235 000 jobs were created in Q3:127 000 were formal non-agriculture jobs, 53 000 informal non-agriculture, 38 000 in agriculture and 17 ...
Transport
Department of Transport on its Quarter 3 performance
21 Feb 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Transport met to be briefed by the Acting Director General, Department Transport on its 2016/17 Third Quarterly Report. The briefing highlighted the achievements, and non-achievements as well as the financial performance of the third Quarter in the seven programmes. The statistics indicated that out of 51 ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Boxing SA progress report; SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport on Post-Olympics doping results
21 Feb 2017
The Committee was briefed by the South African Institute of Drug-Free Sports (SAIDS) on their anti-doping strategy leading up to the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. SAIDS strategy began a year before the games and was focused on testing and anti-doping education of athletes and coaches. It was emphasised that SAIDS ...
Economic Development
Skills Development For A Growing Economy: DHET briefing
14 Feb 2017
The DHET briefed the Committee on its programmes for skills development in SA. The majority of funding disbursed is awarded to the 26 universities in the country, followed by the 50 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and 9 Community Education and Training (CET) colleges. The CET colleges ...
Basic Education
“Jobs for Cash” Report: responses by stakeholders
30 Nov 2016
The stakeholders in the Basic Education sector gave their responses to the “Selling of Posts” Ministerial Task Team (MTT) Report and to its methodology and the recommendations contained in it. There was a general consensus that the Report was flawed because of the processes which were followed to conduct the ...