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Employment and Labour
Unemployment Insurance Fund & Productivity SA on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans 2015/16
25 Mar 2015
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Productivity SA briefed the Committee on their Strategic Plans for 2015-9 and their Annual Performance Plans for 2015/16.
UIF was set up to provide short term unemployment insurance to all workers who qualified for unemployment and related benefits. Its central purpose was to render ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
SA Rugby Union on progress made in transformation
24 Mar 2015
The Committee was briefed by the SA Rugby Union (SARU) on its progress in transformation; getting women involved in rugby; participation of disabled persons; its alignment with the new provincial demarcations in terms of the National Sport and Recreation Plan (NSRP); regulation of utilising foreign players in the domestic league; ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Lovelife & Sports Trust on their programmes and annual reports
3 Mar 2015
The Committee received a briefing from the LoveLife on its strategy review and its agreement with Sports and Recreation South Africa. It outlined its programmes, its research challenges and financials.
The Sports Trust. spoke about governance, its financial status, its partnerships, infrastructure development
and sports codes development
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour on 3rd Quarterly 2014/15 performance & challenges raised during Annual Reports
25 Feb 2015
The meeting focused on the third quarter report of the Department of Labour, covering both the strategic goals and the budget. The overall performance was far from encouraging, with only a 50% rate of achievement against the strategic goals, while expenditure against the budget was at 79% by the end ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Status of Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) review process: briefing by SALGA
24 Feb 2015
The Committee was briefed by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on the status of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) review process. The presentation covered the efficiency of SALGA’s oversight mechanism and its role in monitoring the utilisation of the 15% Municipal Infrastructure Grant allocation intended for sport and ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: state of readiness for way forward
18 Feb 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Labour held a meeting to deliberate and to receive reports on the state of readiness of the support team regarding the public hearings on the national minimum wage, and to air their opinion on lapses in the Parliamentary support system.
The Chairperson expressed concern over ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
PC Sports and Recreation: Matters arising from previous meetings
17 Feb 2015
The Committee met to consider minutes and matters arising from the same minutes. The discussion at one point centred on the Minister of Sports and Recreation absence from meetings when Sports and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) was accounting before the committee. The Chairperson reminded the Committee that the decision to ...
Employment and Labour
PC Labour: Oversight Reports
19 Nov 2014
The Committee considered and adopted with amendments a Draft Report of the Portfolio Committee on Labour on an unannounced visit to the Nyanga Satellite Office and Bellville Labour Centre. The Committee discussed the hygienic concerns of the Nyanga Centre and the Department of Labour’s daily quota on how many people ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Transformation in Sport: Departmental briefing
11 Nov 2014
The Department of Sport and Recreation (SRSA) said that among the transversal issues affecting the whole National Sports and Recreation Plan (NSRP) was the issue of transformation in sport. Following the plan, the Transformation Charter, as well as its scorecard, had then been infused into the plan and adopted as ...
Basic Education
Progress on drug and alcohol prevention programmes in schools
28 Oct 2014
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) briefed the joint committees on the progress of drug and alcohol prevention programmes, physical education and the roll-out of sports programmes in schools.
The drug and alcohol prevention programme involved a detailed strategy, with the main ...