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Human Settlements
Engagement with Metropolitan Municipalities on Urban Settlements Development Grant, informal settlements upgrading, serviced sites and land invasions
8 Mar 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements engaged with the eThekwini Municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, and Buffalo City Municipality on the Urban Settlements Development Grant, informal settlements, service sites and land invasions. This was part of the Committee’s theme this term to engage with metros on the use of grants ...
Human Settlements
GaRankuwa and Mabopane Residents Petition; Breede Valley Petition
1 Mar 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements convened a meeting to receive briefings from the North West Housing Corporation and the City of Tshwane on the progress made on the petition of GaRankuwa and Mabopane Residents. The Western Department of Human Settlements and the Breede Valley Municipality conducted the second ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation Third Quarter Expenditure and Performance Report, 2022/2023 financial year; with Deputy Ministers
28 Feb 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation convened in Parliament to receive a briefing from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on its Third Quarter Expenditure and Performance Report for the 2022/23 financial year.
The DWS said it continued implementing measures to accelerate key service delivery programmes. The Department ...
Water and Sanitation
Overview and assessment of the work of water boards; Deputy Minister present
24 Feb 2023
The Department of Water and Sanitation and three water boards briefed the Committee on the work of the water boards.
The Department said loadshedding and the destruction of infrastructure caused by flooding were challenges. The Department had met five of its eight Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6 targets. Three ...
Human Settlements
Engagement with Metropolitan Municipalities on Urban Settlements Development Grant, informal settlements upgrading, serviced sites and land invasions
22 Feb 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements convened a meeting to receive briefings from the cities of Cape Town and Ekurhuleni on the utilisation of the Urban Settlements Development Grant (USDG), informal settlements upgrading, serviced sites and land invasions. The City of Johannesburg and the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipalities submitted their apologies, ...
Water and Sanitation
Impact of SONA on Water & Sanitation Sector, with Deputy Minister
21 Feb 2023
President Cyril Ramaphosa: 2023 State of the Nation Address (SONA)
The Portfolio Committee was briefed on a virtual platform on the 2023 State of the Nation Address implications for the Department of Water and Sanitation as well as the current status of its infrastructure programme.
Committee members commented about ...
Human Settlements
Strategy to transform apartheid urban spatial design; Strategy for the issuance of Title Deeds; with Deputy Minister
8 Feb 2023
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements held a virtual meeting to hear from the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) about its strategic plans for spatial transformation and the status of title deed issuance.
The Department presented that the factors that contributed to slow spatial transformation included slow transformation of ...
Human Settlements
First Term Committee Programme
1 Feb 2023
The Committee convened a virtual meeting to adopt its first term programme and outstanding minutes from the previous quarter.
During discussion on the programme, Members were told that the Committee had only one week for oversight visits each quarter, so it planned to visit two provinces per quarter to ...
Water and Sanitation
Engagement with DWS on Committee resolutions & recommendations; with Minister and Deputy Ministers present
31 Jan 2023
The Portfolio Committee convened in a virtual meeting to engage with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on resolutions regarding the Committee's recommendations on the 2022/23 annual performance plans of the Department and its entities, water and sanitation sector issues, and the oversight visit to the Eastern Cape. ...
Human Settlements
Title Deeds: Deeds Registry briefing; Housing Consumer Protection Bill: adoption
30 Nov 2022
On a virtual platform the Portfolio Committee considered the B version of the Housing Consumer Protection Bill [B10B-2021] and adopted it and the Committee Report on the Bill. Most of the amendments were minor due to the renumbering caused by the removal of clause 39 which ...