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Basic Education
DBE 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance; Impact of SONA; with Deputy Minister
25 Feb 2020
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the significance of the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) and recommended that it consider the impact of the government’s priorities on the South African education sector over the next five years. There had been a lot of continuity ...
Basic Education
DBE response to SAHRC on Inclusive Education, Persons with Disabilities, Mental Health: with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2020
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) gave a status report on processing the recommendations of the two 2019 SAHRC Reports. One of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) recommendations in its Special Schools report was that DBE must produce a report showing what has been done to demonstrate its ...
Basic Education
2020 School Readiness & 2019 Matric Examination Outcome; Report on Griqua People’s Heritage Submission; Residents of Dryharts Village Petition with Deputy Minister
11 Feb 2020
The meeting opened with a presentation from the Dryharts community in the North West Province, which had requested the reopening of the Molehabangwe middle school as a primary school. They pointed out that overcrowding was a worrying issue at the current schools, and another school was needed because the Dryharts ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Committee Programme on provincial public hearings
4 Feb 2020
Documents used in meeting:
Proposed Public Hearings Programme (to be amended)
Call for Comment
ATC191209: First Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, dated 5 December 2019
Section 25 Review Process
RSA ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Draft bill amending section 25 of the Constitution: briefing
3 Dec 2019
Parliament: Section 25 process
RSA Constitution
AgriSA Press Statement
Rules of Parliament
The Ad Hoc Committee met for a briefing by the Parliamentary Legal Services on the wording of the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill. The Committee also discussed a request to adjust the timing of the call for public ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Impact of land expropriation without compensation on international law and treaties to which South Africa is a signatory: DTI briefing
27 Nov 2019
Parliament: Section 25 process
Ad Hoc Committee on Section 25 Hears Bilateral International Treaties Refer to Property, Not Land
EU Parliamentary Question: South Africa's Bilateral Investment Treaties
RSA Constitution
The Department of Trade and Industry had been requested to brief the Committee on South Africa’s international obligations in respect ...
Basic Education
Griqua People’s Heritage submission: Representative of Griqua People’s Heritage & NC Department of Education; DBE briefing: 2020 school readiness
26 Nov 2019
The Committee received a petition from a Griqua community in the Northern Cape, which had been submitted to the Department of Basic Education (DBE), requesting that a new school be built on the Gong-Gong farm. A community representative highlighted the plight of the people of Gong-Gong, and said there had ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance
19 Nov 2019
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) presented a report on its performance for the second quarter of the 2019/20 financial year, and the overall feedback from the Committee was positive.
The Department provided details of progress with its five programmes, and highlighted some challenges. It had implemented consequence management for ...
Basic Education
Funza Lushaka Bursary Scheme & Post-Provisioning Norms: Department briefing; with Deputy Minister
12 Nov 2019
The Committee met to be briefed by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) on the Post-Provisioning Norms (PPN) for 2020 and the Funza Lushaka Bursary Scheme. Additionally, the Committee considered and adopted its draft minutes dated 5 November 2019. The Deputy Minister of Basic Education was present.
The presentation on ...
Basic Education
Inclusive Education: status update
30 Oct 2019
The Committee was given a detailed presentation by the Department of Basic Education on inclusive education for learners with disabilities. Most of the policy obligations in White Paper Six on provision of inclusive education in South Africa, DBE had been implementing over the years, which had been turned into strategies. ...