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Defence and Military Veterans
Procurement of Heberon by DoD: SAHPRA & DoD briefing; with Minister
17 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, 17 February 2021
In this virtual meeting, the Committee raised its concerns on how the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) had procured Heberon (Recombinant Human Interferon alpha-2b), and how it was imported into the country without proper registration and clearance from ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Council on Military Veterans Report; Oversight report to landline borders; with Deputy Minister
10 Feb 2021
In a virtual meeting, the Committee held a discussion with former members of the Advisory Council on Military Veterans whose term of office had expired the previous October. The former members complained of a lack of policy on issues affecting liberation war veterans. They said their recommendations were ignored and ...
Defence
SANDF deployment; Committee 2020 Annual Report
4 Feb 2021
Video: Joint Standing Committee on Defence, 4 February 2021
The Committee met to consider the 8 January 2021 letter from the President about the deployment of 2 122 members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in support of other government departments in the fight against Covid-19 from 29 ...
Defence and Military Veterans
HR Action Plan & measures to contain budget over expenditure; Audit Action Plan; PPE Expenditure Audit
3 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, 03 Feb 2021
The Committee met with the South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF), the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) in a virtual meeting for a briefing on the SANDF’s initiatives to reduce expenditure on the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DoD & DMV Budgetary Review and Recommendation Reports
2 Dec 2020
2020 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
Video: PC Defence, 2 December
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Defence was presented with the draft Budgetary Review and Recommendation Reports (BRRRs) of the Department of Defence (DOD), the Department of Military Veterans (DMV), the Armaments Corporation of South Africa ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence 2019/20 Annual Report
1 Dec 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans [NA]
The Department of Defence issued a warning that because of a lack of resources, there was a risk that South Africa may not have a Defence Force equipped to deliver on its constitutional mandate, and would have to ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Armscor, Military Veterans, Castle Control Board 2019/20 Annual Reports
25 Nov 2020
Department of Military Veterans, Armscor and Castle Control Board presented 2019/20 Annual Reports.
The new Armscor board will commence on 1 December 2020. It was congratulated on a clean audit. Armscor was asked to explain the two legal claims it was defending; funding of landward systems; financial ...
Defence and Military Veterans
DoD, DMV, Armscor & Castle Control Board audit outcomes
24 Nov 2020
The Committee met with Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) for a briefing on the 2019/20audit outcomes for the Defence portfolio. Department of Defence (DoD) obtained qualified audit with findings; Department of Military Veterans (DMV) and Cape Castle Board (CCB) maintained its unqualified audit with findings; Armscor had improved ...
Defence
South African Unintegrated Forces United Front on their grievances
19 Nov 2020
Video: Joint Standing Committee on Defence, 19 November 2020
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence met on a virtual platform to consider and adopt its draft reports on various issues dealt with by the Committee in recent months. It also adopted the consolidated report of its engagements with the South ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Works Foundation on devolution of responsibilities from DPWI and funding issues
18 Nov 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans received a briefing from the Defence Works Formation (DWF) on the status and progress of the infrastructure delivery function transfer from the Department of Public Works and infrastructure (DPWI).
Members were told that the DWF’s capacity at artisan level had been reached, ...