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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Status report on progress to address concerns around Parliament’s budget allocation
15 Mar 2024
The Secretary to Parliament provided the Committee with an update on an ongoing issue plaguing the Committee – the budget of Parliament. For a long time, the institution has felt that it cannot be treated like any government department when it comes to the budget allocation as Parliament is ...
Agriculture
Postponed: Challenges and interventions to address governance challenges confronting ITB & Ingonyama Trust; with Deputy Minister
12 Mar 2024
The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development convened in Parliament for a follow-up meeting on the interventions of the new Board of Trustees on challenges and interventions to address governance challenges confronting the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) and the Ingonyama Trust.
The Committee had seen from media ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Consideration and adoption of committee minutes and reports
5 Mar 2024
The Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament, comprising Members from the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces, convened a virtual meeting to deal with internal Committee business.
The minutes from meetings on 28 November 2023 and 1 March 2024 were adopted, followed by the acceptance ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament Quarter 3 2023/24 performance
1 Mar 2024
The Committee met on a virtual platform to be briefed on Parliament’s third quarterly performance for 2023/24. Members were taken through a detailed presentation on the performance. The presentation covered a summary of committee activity in the quarter under review including oversight visits conducted, statutory appointments, legislation, study tours ...
Agriculture
ARC, NAMC, ITB & OBP 2022/23 Annual Reports
7 Feb 2024
Agriculture Research Council (ARC)
National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC)
Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP)
The Committee convened in Parliament to receive briefings from four entities of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development on their annual reports for the 20222/23 financial year.
The Agricultural Research Council ...
Agriculture
DALRD, CRLR, OVG & PPECB 2022/23 Annual Reports; with Minister
6 Feb 2024
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB)
Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (CRLR)
There had been progress on matters related to agriculture, rural development and land reform, but not in the way the Department would have liked it to happen. ...
Agriculture
Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Bill & Deeds Registries Amendment: finalisation
5 Dec 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee considered and adopted the A and B lists of the Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Bill. The A-list included the editorial amendments made in last week’s meeting on clauses 15 and 24. The Committee also considered and adopted the B-list of the Deeds Registries ...
Agriculture
Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Bill & Deeds Registries Amendment Bill: motion of desirability
1 Dec 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, discussed the Motion of Desirability and deliberated on the Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Bill [B14-2021] and the Deeds Registries Amendment Bill [B28-2022]. The Committee agreed to the motion of desirability for both Bills.
The Committee Content ...
Joint Multi-party Women’s Caucus
Elimination of child pregnancies & protection of children against sexual exploitation: Department briefings (with Minister & Deputy Ministers present)
30 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Multiparty Women’s Caucus received briefings from the departments of Social Development, Basic Education and Health on the elimination of child pregnancies and the protection of children against sexual exploitation. The departments all agreed that the issues must be dealt with through a multi-sectoral approach, ...
Agriculture
Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Bill: adoption; Chinese delegation
28 Nov 2023
The Portfolio Committee met in a physical meeting to consider and adopt the Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land (PDAL) Bill with amendments. The Committee Report on the Bill was also adopted.
On the concern raised that the permitted seizure in clause 31(3)(g) is not constitutional, it was pointed out ...