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NCOP Appropriations
School Sanitation Audit; Education Infrastructure expenditure; with Minister
30 May 2018
The School Sanitation Audit was presented as a work in progress. This was in response to the President's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities after the March 2018 drowning of Lumka Mketwa in a pit toilet at an Eastern Cape primary school. In 2014 Michael Kompane also lost ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education Quarter 2 & 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
20 Mar 2018
The Committee received a briefing on the second and third quarterly performance reports of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) for 2017/18, with the Minister and Deputy Minister present.
Major highlights included conducting and evaluating the matriculation exams, where there had been a student pass rate of 75.1%. There had ...
Basic Education
ICT Roll-Out in Schools; School Governing Board (SGB) Elections; with Minister and Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the current preparations for school governing body elections, which would take place from March 2018. The complexity of the election process was highlighted, especially with regard to uniformity across the provinces. Although the overall percentage of readiness was good, it ...
Basic Education
Vuwani status report by DBE; SAPS; COGTA; Intelligence; Umalusi 2016/17 Annual Report
10 Oct 2017
The Committee met to receive an update from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on the developments since the President visited Vuwani on 7 May 2017, and to consider the annual performance report of the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education ...
Basic Education
Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL); History as a Compulsory Subject; Jobs for Cash, Protests; with Minister
27 Jun 2017
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the implementation of the Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL) and the introduction of History as a compulsory subject.
The DBE Director-General said that 27% of public schools nationally are implementing the Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL) in Grades ...
Basic Education
SAHRC Report on National Investigative Hearing into Impact of Protest Action on Right to Basic Education; Committee Report on Basic Education Budget, with Minister present
16 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education convened with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to consider the report of the National Investigative Hearing into the impact of protest-related action on the right to a basic education in South Africa.
The Commission stated that the majority of the problems cited ...
Basic Education
Kha Ri Gude Literacy Programme & “Jobs-for-Cash” Report: Department of Basic Education briefing, with Minister and Deputy Minister
23 Nov 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the progress and state of readiness of the Kha Ri Gude (KRG) programme. The 2015 achievements of the programme included the registration of 348 228 learners, with 298 000 Learner Assessment Portfolios (LAPs) verified and moderated. To date, just over ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education & SITA Annual Reports 2015/16: hearing, with Minister of Education
9 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), with the objective of ensuring that managers did not tolerate this type of expenditure, and would hold officials ...