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Tourism
National Department of Tourism & SA Tourism on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
24 Oct 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Report 2013/14.
Minister Derek Hanekom pointed out that SA’s international tourist figures had increased by 4.7% and almost reached the 10 million mark in 2013 despite the slow economic recovery. The NDT was the custodian of the National Tourism ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Public Works Budget Review and Recommendations Report
23 Oct 2014
The Chairperson led Members of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works through a page-by-page review of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The only major issues related to the suggestion to substitute “eliminate corruption” for “address corruption,” and the timeframe for the presentation of financial reports. Members reached agreement ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Meeting with City of Johannesburg delegation
22 Oct 2014
The Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests hosted the City of Johannesburg’s Ethics Committee. The purpose of the meeting, as stated by the Chairperson of the Joint Committee, was for the two committees to engage in a conversation on the issue of ethics and the importance of establishing and ...
Tourism
Audit outcomes of Department of Tourism: AGSA briefing; FFC on its recommendations related to tourism; 3rd Term Committee Programme
17 Oct 2014
The Auditor General SA briefed the Committee on the 2013/14 audit outcomes of the National Department of Tourism (NDT). In 2013/14 the NDT had obtained a clean audit outcome with no findings on predetermined objectives and compliance. SA Tourism had received an unqualified audit outcome with findings on predetermined objectives ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Workshop with Office of Auditor-General, Financial & Fiscal Commission & Department of Performance Monitoring & Evaluation in preparation for BRRR process
25 Sep 2014
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) presented a workshop to the Public Works Portfolio Committee on how to understand audit outcomes better, so that it would be capacitated to perform its oversight function more ...
Tourism
National Heritage, Cultural & Rural Tourism Strategies: briefing by National Department of Tourism
19 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its National Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy, as well as its National Rural Tourism Strategy. The focus of the NDT at present was to ensure that the eight world heritage sites found in SA remained on the United Nations Educational, Scientific ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
2014 Register of Members Interests: adoption
17 Sep 2014
The Committee dealt with the minutes of the 8 of July 2014 at length. The contention was that there was an election of a Committee whip, which the opposition parties felt that seeing that there was no rule providing for one in any Parliamentary Committee; there could have been no ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on 1st Quarter Performance for 2014/15
16 Sep 2014
The Department of Public Works (DPW) said this was the first time they had presented a quarterly report after a substantial outcome from their stabilisation phase. A report on the turnaround had been presented to Cabinet and endorsed. It was seven-year turnaround plan. For the first part of their stabilisation ...
Tourism
Social Responsibility Implementation programme: Department of Tourism on briefing
12 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Social Responsibility Implementation programme. At the outset of the meeting members were provided with a broad overview. The Committee was informed that it was common practise for upfront payments to be made to project implementers on Expanded Public Works Programme ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on Phase Three of Expanded Public Works Programme, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The presentation described the aims and objectives of the third phase of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), which was designed to address the issues of unemployment and poverty, specifically among women and young people. It sought to train millions of unemployed people across different sectors through various Public Employment ...