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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality on 3rd Quarter Performance
13 Mar 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) started to brief the Committee on its performance and the challenges during the third quarter, but were brought to a halt when Members complained that the contents were very broad and it would be more relevant to discuss legislation that would help to improve ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act Amendment Draft Bill: public hearings day 3
9 Mar 2018
The Committee continued its public hearings on the draft Public Audit Act Amendment Bill, with two submissions from private individuals.
Mr Eric Smith referred to the weakness in South Africa’s regulatory regimes in respect of environmental management, monitoring and enforcement, and the Auditor-General’s (AG) mandate to consider and report on ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act Amendment Draft Bill: public hearings day 2
7 Mar 2018
The Standing Committee on the Auditor General held public hearings on the draft Public Audit Act Amendment Bill, during which a wide range of local government and professional bodies provided opinions and recommendations aimed at enhancing the Act’s effectiveness.
Overstrand Municipality referred to section 3, subsection 1(B) (a) of the ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
South African Law Reform Commission Report: Adult Prostitution: response by stakeholders
5 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women’s Caucus arranged a summit during which 30 stakeholders and interested parties provided responses to the Adult Prostitution Report produced by the South African Law Reform Commission on behalf of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Written submissions had been submitted in 2017.
The Chairperson indicated that ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Draft Bill: briefing on public comments
2 Mar 2018
In the run up to the public hearings on the 6, 7 and 9 March, the Standing Committee on the Auditor General (SCOAG) was briefed on the public submissions on the Draft Public Audit Act Amendment Bill by the Committee’s legal and content advisors which were grouped into themes.
A ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Programme of Action Addressing Violence Against Women and Children, with Ministers of Higher Education & Women + Deputy Ministers of Transport & Communications
1 Mar 2018
The Multi-Party Women Caucus (MPWC) received a briefing from the Committee Researcher on the International Conference hosted by the Parliament in August 2017. At the end of the conference there had been a list of actions which Women Parliamentarians present at the meeting were expected to pursue. The implementation suggested areas of action ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Employment Equity Hearing on gender transformation in the workplace: Commission for Gender Equality briefing
27 Feb 2018
The Commission on Gender Equality made presentations on the Employment Equity Report for 2015/2016, and the 2015 research report assessing gender mainstreaming in the public service.
The first report was based upon the employment equity hearings conducted by the Commission. The intention of the study was to assess the impact ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency Quarter 2 performance
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency presented its Quarter 2 performance to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency.
Out of the 27 planned targets, 11 were achieved and 16 were not achieved. The 2nd quarter’s performance was the same as the 1st quarter despite there being more ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance
30 Jan 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 Annual Report. The Commission’s budgetary challenges were raised as a serious matter of concern, including the amalgamation. The Commission expressed its unhappiness about the processes involved in the attempts at amalgamation because it had its own brief which ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Appointment of the External Auditor for AGSA; Committee Reports
24 Nov 2017
There was a briefing by the Chairperson of the Audit Committee of AG on the appointment of the External Auditor. The AG was really struggling to get a new external auditor and one of the reasons for that was because the AG is contracted to a lot of private firms. There ...