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Sport, Arts and Culture
German Sports Committee delegation on youth development & areas of cooperation
23 Oct 2014
The Committee on Sport and Recreation met with the delegation of the Committee for Sports of the German Bundestag to discuss sports and youth development projects and areas of cooperation. After a brief introduction, both committees promptly decided to get straight into discussion due to the limited time available, and ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, Arbitration on 2013/14 Annual Reports
16 Oct 2014
The Compensation Fund (CF) briefed the Committee on its 2013/14 Annual Reports. The Compensation Commissioner for the CF informed the Committee that this had not been a good year, and the CF had again received a disclaimer audit, with particular challenges around revenue collection and management. The Auditor-General (AG) apparently ...
Employment and Labour
Analysis of DoL & its entities financial performance: Parliamentary Researcher Unit briefing; Audit outcomes: AGSA briefing
15 Oct 2014
The Committee was briefed by researchers of the Appropriations Committee on the financial performance of Department of Labour and its entities, and by the Auditor General of South Africa on the audit outcomes.
The researchers described Department’s expenditure and variances for the year. Total expenditure had amounted to R2.37bn, which ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Department of Sport & Recreation on its 2013/14 Annual Report; Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing; BRRR
14 Oct 2014
The Committee was briefed by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) on Reports of the AG on the Financial Statements and performance Information of vote 20 for 2013/14 (RP 138-2014); of the south African Institute for Drug-Free Sport for 2013/14 (RP 151-2009); and Boxing South Africa (BSA) for 2013/14.
Audit outcomes ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: input by Chamber of Mines
19 Sep 2014
The Chamber of Mines, an employer organization representing about 90% of the mining production in South Africa, said that it appreciates the value of the national minimum wage (NMW) as one of a range of mechanisms to address inequality. Nevertheless, a NMW across all industries might not be appropriate as ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: Agri-SA submission
17 Sep 2014
Agri-SA, a federation of agricultural organisations, representing a diverse grouping of individual farmers in the country, said in principle it accepted a national minimum wage but emphasised that the sectoral determination needed to be taken into consideration and it should be applied on different levels. The implementation of a national ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Boxing South Africa on its 2014 Strategic Plan; Sport and Recreation SA on 1st Quarter Performance, planned legislation and progress with Appeal Board appointment process
16 Sep 2014
Boxing SA Briefing
The Committee was briefed by Boxing South Africa (BSA) on its Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan for 2014-15, and developments in Boxing SA.
BSA had administrative and revenue generation challenges which was why it had asked Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) for assistance. Specifically the Boxing ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: input from South African National Taxi Council & Stellenbosch University
10 Sep 2014
SANTACO presented on the national minimum wage (NMW). The taxi industry is a critical pillar in South Africa’s public sector, transporting more than 70% of passengers per day which is approximately 16.5 million commuters. SANTACO had over 100 000 members, represents 90% of taxi owners and was the major broad ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
SASCOC on its Strategic Plan & Commonwealth Games preparations and performance
9 Sep 2014
The Committee was to be briefed by Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) on developments and challenges across all the sporting federations.
However, SASCOC only presented a report on its preparation and performance at the 2014 Commonwealth games as well as its strategy for 2013-2016.
Members asked SASCOC to return ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
DPME on use of Monitoring and Evaluation information for oversight; Match-fixing discussion
26 Aug 2014
Planning in government had been transferred by the President from National Treasury to the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME). The inputs were budgets, human resources, infrastructure and activities. The output was service delivery. Operation Phakisa aimed at resolving recurring weaknesses in government service delivery programmes.
The DPME briefed ...