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Basic Education
Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC); 2017 National Senior Certificate Consolidated Results, with Minister
28 Aug 2018
The Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign is geared to mobilising stakeholders to play a role and take responsibility for the attainment of quality learning and teaching. The QLTC has been repositioned to respond to the dictates of the Education Action Plan to 2019: Towards the Realisation of Schooling 2030. Some ...
Basic Education
Violence Against Children: Save the Children SA briefing
15 May 2018
Save the Children told the Committee it believed that every child deserved a future, and that the organisation provide children with a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. It had offices in five provinces -- Gauteng, KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga (partly) and the Free State. ...
International Relations
Foreign Service Bill seminar recommendations; Committee Report on Canada Study Tour; with Minister and Deputy Minister
9 May 2018
The Committee met to discuss several reports on the Foreign Service Bill. The Chairperson suggested that members go home with the reports including the submissions by individuals and institutions. This was to give members the opportunity to engage thoroughly with the reports which will be consolidated in the next meeting. ...
International Relations
UN Security Council reform: DIRCO briefing, with Deputy Ministers
14 Mar 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and South Africa's candidacy for non-permanent membership.
DIRCO felt that it was high time for reform to take place in the UNSC as there was an imbalance ...
Basic Education
DBE Budget: AGSA briefing; Progress in Implementation of the Action Plan to address Audit Outcomes, with Deputy Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Basic Education (DBE), accompanied by the Deputy Minister, and the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) to consider progress made with the action plan to address the audit outcomes and findings of the 2016/17 financial year. The AGSA presented the reviewed draft 2018/19 Annual Performance ...
International Relations
DRC, Morocco and South Sudan political situation: DIRCO briefing, with Minister
7 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation received a briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) pertaining to the current political situations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Morocco.
Pursuant to the cabinet reshuffle that recently took place, the new Minister of ...
International Relations
Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges; Diplomatic Mission Structure, with Deputy Minister
21 Feb 2018
The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, companied by DIRCO officials, provided a briefing on the privileges and immunities represented in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the functional immunities outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The exercise sought to observe how these immunities ...
International Relations
Committee Report on Canada Study Tour & Oversight of South Africa’s international relations policy in Ottawa
31 Jan 2018
Relevant documents: Draft Report of Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation on Study Tour to Ottawa, Canada
Draft Report of Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation on conducting oversight on implementation and execution of South Africa’s international relations policy in Ottawa, Canada [Committee reports available under Tabled Reports once ...
Basic Education
SACE 2016/17 Annual Report; Gauteng Oversight Recommendations: Department progress report
5 Oct 2017
The Committee met with the Gauteng Provincial Government to discuss the responses to resolutions that came about after the Portfolio Committee conducted its oversight visit to Ekurhuleni North, Ekurhuleni South and Tshwane North Education Districts in Gauteng. It also met with the South African Council for ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education 2016/17 Annual Report
4 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education convened on the 4 October 2017 with the Department of Basic Education for a briefing on the Department’s Annual Performance in Meeting its Strategic Objectives for 2016/17.
The Department of Basic Education’s financial statements were presented. In the 2016/17 financial year, ...