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Home Affairs
Briefing by Department of Home Affairs and Border Management Authority (BMA) on their readiness for the festive season, update on progress on establishing BMA and Draft Regulations; with Ministry
22 Nov 2022
The Border Management Agency Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner briefed the Committee on the readiness of all the ports of entry for the upcoming festive season. This includes staff from different departments to either be deployment or seconded to ports, the borderline or coastline. The necessary arrangements are also in ...
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Migrant issues, opening of refugee offices, statelessness & backlog project: LHR briefing
15 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on migrant issues, including opening refugee offices, statelessness and the application backlog project.
The LHR briefed the Committee on refugee and migrant rights, covering the digitisation of the asylum seeker and refugee system, ...
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Department of Home Affairs Q 1 & 2 2022/23 Performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
1 Nov 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met on a virtual platform to receive a briefing from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on its performance in the first and second quarters of the 2022/23 financial year. The presentation showed that the Department had under-performed drastically in its immigration services, ...
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Home Affairs BRRR; IEC office-bearer job profiles
25 Oct 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The Committee considered its Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report on the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and finalised recommendations on audit outcomes, security measures, additional office hours and responses by Department officials.
The Committee considered the job profiles of the IEC Office bearers ...
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Home Affairs BRRR: postponed
21 Oct 2022
The Committee agreed to postpone the meeting to allow Members adequate time to engage and consider the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR)
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Department of Home Affairs & GPW Annual Report 2021/22, with Minister and Deputy Minister
18 Oct 2022
The Committee met on a virtual platform to receive briefings from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Government Printing Works (GPW) on their annual reports and annual financial statements for the 2021/22 financial year.
The Committee discussed the initial GPW computer system crash that occurred ...
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Electoral Amendment Bill: adoption
12 Oct 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
The Portfolio Committee convened a virtual meeting to consider and adopt the Electoral Amendment Bill.
The Committee was tasked to amend the Electoral Act 73 of 1998 to allow independent candidates to contest elections.
The State Law Advisors read ...
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Electoral Amendment Bill: Seat Calculation briefing & adoption of A-list
7 Oct 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met on a virtual platform with the Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Office of the Chief State Law Advisor (OCSLA). The OCSLA and the IEC presented the amended A-list of the Electoral Amendment Bill. Amendments included ...
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Electoral Amendment Bill: further deliberations; with Deputy Minister
4 Oct 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met on a virtual platform with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), the Electoral Commission (IEC) and legal advisors deliberate and finalise outstanding issues on the Electoral Amendment Bill.
The Members agreed that the definition of ...
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Electoral Amendment Bill: DHA, IEC & Legal Advisors input; with Ministry
27 Sep 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), the Electoral Commission (IEC) and Parliamentary Legal Service via a virtual platform. The three stakeholders presented their responses to the additional round of public submissions on the Electoral ...