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Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill: deliberations; Report on the review of permits, with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Jul 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
In this virtual meeting, the legal counsel of the Department of Home Affairs briefed the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on outstanding policy matters in relation to the Electoral Amendment Bill. The legal opinion discussed proposed amendments to the Bill. These amendments ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill deliberations; Government Printing Works investigation; with Minister
5 Jul 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
A Parliamentary Legal Adviser provided a recap on the Electoral Amendment Bill deliberations, detailing the decisions made. Members agreed in principle that independent candidates should be included in the concept of a “party liaison committee” and that this be amended. The IEC ...
Home Affairs
Permit Review report: postponed; Electoral Amendment Bill; with Minister
28 Jun 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
The Committee was unanimously displeased that the Permit Review report by the ministerial task team could not be presented after the 7 March report briefing had been cancelled. This time it was because a sufficient number of task team members were unable ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill extension; IEC, DHA, Law Advisor submissions; with Minister
21 Jun 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
Parliament's Constitutional and Legal Services Office (CLSO) briefed the Committee on the granting of a Constitutional Court extension on the Electoral ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill: Further responses by DHA & IEC, with Ministry; DHA Budget: Committee Report
13 May 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
In this virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (the Committee) was briefed by the Ministry and officials from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Independent Electoral Commission (the IEC) Commissioners on the public participation report ...
Home Affairs
IEC & GPW 2022/23 Annual Performance Plans; with Ministry
3 May 2022
Independent Electoral Commission
Government Printing Works
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Government Printing Works (GPW) on their annual performance plans (APPs) and budgets for the 2022/23 financial year.
The IEC told the Committee that it had ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Amendment Bill: DHA response to public submissions; with Ministry
29 Apr 2022
Tracking the Electoral Reform Legislation in Parliament
In this virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by the Ministry and officials from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on their response to public submissions received on the Electoral Amendment Bill.
The Minister emphasised that Parliament had the right to ...
Home Affairs
DHA 2022/23 APP; DHA intervention in KZN & EC State of Disaster; with Ministry
26 Apr 2022
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on its Annual Performance Plan (APP) and budget for the 2022/23 financial year. DHA also briefed the Committee on its intervention in the recent floods and state of disasters in ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: DHA & DoJ & CD input on issues raised during public hearings, with Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
2 Mar 2022
Parliament: Key Themes Emerging from provincial hearings
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was addressed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on the issues raised during public hearings on the Children’s Amendment Bill. They were then addressed by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) about the ...
Home Affairs
Electoral Laws Second A/B: rejection; Implementation of Committee Recommendations in BRRR; Impact of SONA on sector; with Minister and Deputy Minister
22 Feb 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa: 2022 State of the Nation Address (SONA)
The Committee met on a virtual platform to receive a briefing from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) on the 2021/22 Budgetary Review ...