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Sport, Arts and Culture
Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act (SASREA) Appeal Board: Interviewing of candidates (day 1)
26 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation met to interviews candidates to fill a vacancy on the Independent Board to hear and decide on Appeals against decisions made in terms of the Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act (SASREA), Act No. 2 of 2010 (SASREA Board).
The following candidates ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
School Sport: update by SRSA & Department of Basic Education; Drug testing for school sport legislation
24 Aug 2015
Sports and Recreation South Africa updated the Committee on the implementation of the MOU on schools sport between SRSA and Department of Basic Education (DBE). They enumerated the achievements and the challenges and concluded that a lot of progress has been made. Nonetheless, it is essential to ensure that schools, ...
Transport
Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport on the recent Mamelodi bus commuters’ challenges: Status update on the latest developments & way forward
17 Aug 2015
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport provided the Committee with an overview of the status of the Mamelodi/Autopax bus contracts. The briefing included a detailed background of the issues involved, the eight affected contracts, an insight into Autopax -- its current operations and operational challenges -- objections from the ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Tennis SA transformation and performance; Committee’s Third Term Programme
23 Jun 2015
The Committee was briefed by Tennis South Africa (TSA) on the status of its transformation, financial performance, governance and development programmes.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) had just completed a survey, where it had found that more than 444 000 South Africans were playing tennis every week. TSA’s task was ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Swimming SA status report; 2010 FIFA World Cup allegations: discussion
9 Jun 2015
Finance: Swimming South Africa had been very fortunate leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games as it still had a corporate sponsor together with the grants from the National Lotteries Board (NLB). The challenge with swimming was that investment was not short term as it took eight to ten years ...
Basic Education
Curriculum delivery and support in schools: Department of Basic Education status report
9 Jun 2015
The Department of Basic Education outlined the diversity of Annual National Assessment (ANA) and National Senior Certificate (NSC) results from province to province across the nation, which was startling for many; Mpumalanga and Western Cape led the progress chart. Notably, overall improvement could be identified from all provinces. Moreover, the ...
Transport
Department of Transport 2014/15 Fourth Quarter Expenditure
26 May 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT) overspent its budget due to the cost of e-ENaTIS maintenance and operations, and achieved an overall performance of 72%.
The Department revealed this when it briefed the Portfolio Committee on Transport on its fourth quarter expenditure. The focus was on optimal performance of deliverables in ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Cricket SA: Transformation, Financial performance, Governance and Development programmes
19 May 2015
The Committee was briefed by Cricket South Africa (CSA) on transformation, financial performance, governance and development programmes. CSA reported that according to its understanding, transformation at national level would happen when it focused on developing the talent from the bottom up. Members were told CSA had set transformation targets at ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation & International Study Tour Proposal APP; Committee Report on Sport and Recreation Budget
12 May 2015
The Committee content advisor said that Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) had been able to align its Strategic Plan (SP) for 2015-2020 to the achievement of some of the priorities of the National Development Plan (NDP), where the emphasis on social cohesion had been translated into its programme. Within ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Committee Report on Sports and Recreation SA (SRSA) budget: further discussion
6 May 2015
The Sports and Recreation Committees’ strategic goals from 2015-2020 were to process, pass and monitor implementation of relevant legislation; ensure that the public was central in the processing of legislation and scrutinising of Executive action; undertake an effective process of scrutinising & overseeing executive and entities reporting to relevant departments; ...