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Property Practitioners Bill: Department response to submissions & final mandates; Committee Legacy Report
25 Mar 2019
The Committee met with the Department of Human Settlement for responses to public submissions on the Property Practitioners Bill. Following the passing of the Property Practitioners Bill by the National Assembly in November 2018, it was referred to the National Council of Provinces for deliberation in terms of section 76 ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Property Practitioners Bill: Negotiating Mandates & Department Response
19 Mar 2019
The Select Committee meeting was called to receive provincial negotiating mandates for the Property Practitioners Bill [B21B-2018]. Members, with the mandate of their provinces, voted unanimously in favour of the Bill but several provinces had queries, required clarification or required amendments to the Bill.
Officials from the Department of Human ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Registration at Universities & TVET Colleges
13 Mar 2019
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) briefed the Committee on registration at Universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges. It mentioned challenges faced by the Department with regards to the administration of National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) which affected the implementation of the new ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Development Agency on its Annual Report 2017/18
5 Mar 2019
The National Development Agency (NDA) spoke about its unqualified audit opinion with findings, governance, human resources, finances and its challenges and recommendations. It had an overall 85% achievement of targets. The Committee however felt NDA is underperforming due to underspending in the funds it distributes to civil ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017]: final mandates; with Minister
26 Feb 2019
The Select Committee on Social Services met to consider the final mandates on the National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017].
The Committee noted that the Bill had been referred to it on 28 August 2018, and from that time a briefing had been received, advertisements for public ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill: deliberations
20 Feb 2019
The relationship between SAQA and the Quality Councils (QC) was discussed in the Portfolio Committee during the previous meeting.
The Select Committee convened to assess the merits contained in the submissions received from various institutions and organisations on the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill. The Department of Health was present ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2017]: negotiating mandates & department response
19 Feb 2019
The Committee convened to consider negotiating mandates on the National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [B16B-2018]. The Minister of Health and the Department were in attendance to give their responses to the mandates, highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement.
All Provinces voted in support of the Bill with ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
2018 Matric Results: DBE & Umalusi briefing, with Deputy Minister
13 Feb 2019
The Committee was first briefed by the Department of Education on the 2018 matric results. The Deputy Minister was in attendance.
The Deputy Minister said that no-fees schools have performed extremely well and there has been notable improvement in the subjects of Mathematics and Physical Science. There are challenges which ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Electoral Laws Amendment Bill: adoption
21 Dec 2018
Committee Media Release
The Committee met in Gauteng. PMG was therefore not able to attend the meeting.
NCOP Health and Social Services
Electoral Laws Amendment Bill [B33B-2018]: briefing
4 Dec 2018
The Committee had on the 27 November 2018 received a very detailed informal briefing on the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). The present briefing would cover exactly the same content but the intention of the present meeting was to formalise the briefing by the IEC. ...