Home Affairs
Refugees Amendment Bill [B19-2015]: Adoption of Memorandum for Committee to introduce this Bill
19 May 2015
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefed the Committee on the consequences that might occur if the Committee failed to comply with the Constitutional Court order in time. She said that the reading-in remedy in the section 21(5) of the Refugees Act, 1998 would come to an end on 26 September 2015 ...
Defence
Joint meeting with Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on Joint oversight visits and Study Tours
14 May 2015
The Committee as well as the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans met jointly to plan and deliberate on their oversight and study tour options for the year. Members debated on the merits of the study tours and considered visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia and Vietnam. The ...
Home Affairs
Constitutional Court judgment declaring section 21(5) of the Refugees Act invalid; Committee Strategic Plan; Gauteng Oversight Report
12 May 2015
A Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefed the Committee on the implications of the decision of the Constitutional Court which declared section 21(5) of the Refugees Act 130 of 1998 to be inconsistent with the Constitution. She noted that it was held that section 21(5) of the Act was particularly inconsistent with ...
Home Affairs
Regional Integration and Regional Migration Trends: Home Affairs, IOM & African Centre for Migration & Society briefing
5 May 2015
Three entities briefed the Committee on regional integration and regional migration trends. The International Organisation on Migration (IOM) placed a particular focus on demographics, push factors, facilitating factors, inhibiting factors, and exacerbating factors. The brief was centred on the countries of DRC, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia ...
Defence
Defence Review : Draft Committee Report adopted (objections from DA), Letters from President deferred
30 Apr 2015
The Committee met to adopt its Draft Report on the Defence Review. A DA Member had submitted a document, at a previous meeting, in which he set out 21 suggestions on the Defence Review, which had been circulated to and read by all Committee Members. Mr Maynier was given the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) 2015 Strategic plan and funding requirements
29 Apr 2015
Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) presented its Corporate Plan and strategic objectives for 2015, which were broadly aimed at improving accountability on the execution of the mandate, customer satisfaction through service delivery and financial responsibility, improving efficiency, effectiveness and economical service delivery as well as the utilisation of human ...
Home Affairs
Violence against foreign nationals: Police/Home Affairs report with Home Affairs Deputy Minister & Small Business Development Minister
28 Apr 2015
Document awaited: National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure Report on violence against foreign nationals
The Departments of Police, Home Affairs and Small Business Development briefed a joint meeting of the Home Affairs, Police, International Relations and Cooperation, Justice and Small Business Development Portfolio Committees about the recent attacks against foreign ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
16 Apr 2015
The Department of Military Veterans briefed its oversight Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its strategic plans for 2015 to 2019 and it Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16. The presentations outlined the breakdown of the Medium-Term Expenditure Estimate of R582.2 million across its three programmes and the baseline. ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
The Committee Researcher gave an overview of the Department of Defence’s budget, estimates of national expenditure, strategic plan and annual performance plan. The Department’s budget had increased by 4% in the financial year, and stood at R44.579 billion. There were increases in all programmes except for Programme 4: Air Defence. ...
Defence
Defence Review 2014; deliberations & Committee Report on Defence Review 2014 public hearings
19 Mar 2015
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence met to consider and deliberate on the South African Defence Review 2014.The three functions of the Committee were specifically to comment, make recommendations and investigate any aspect of the Defence Review.
A Member of the Democratic Alliance had submitted a document outlining an alternative ...