Mr Sarel Jacobus Francois Marais

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Sarel Jacobus Francois Marais

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Defence and Military Veterans Department of Defence Annual Performance Plan & Quarter 4 performance
    2 May 2018

    The Department of Defence and Military Veterans (DMV) had not yet decided how it was going to spend the rest of its 2018/19 budget, because there was a wrong distribution of resources within it. The DMV stated this when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on its budgetary allocation and ...

  • Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Election of Chairpersons; Committee Mandate; Medical Aid Scheme Act: Content Advisor/Reseacher input
    2 May 2018

    The Committee Secretary said the Ad Hoc Committee had been jointly established by the National Assembly (NA) and the National Council of Province (NCOP) to inquire into the Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme (Parmed) Act 28 of 1975. Because the meeting had started an hour late, it was decided ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Department of Defence Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Defence Amendment Bill
    14 Mar 2018

    The Department of Defence (DOD) briefed the Committee on its third quarterly performance and expenditure report for the 2017/18 financial year, and also gave a presentation on the Defence Amendment Bill.

    Performance indicators showed that the total number of achieved targets was significantly lower in the third quarter than in ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Military veterans & dependents education support: Department & NSFAS input; DMV performance
    7 Mar 2018

    The Committee met with the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) for a briefing on challenges relating to the provision of educational support benefits to military veterans and their dependants.

    The Department briefed the Committee on the financial performance of the Department for ...

  • Defence International peacekeeping operations: SANDF & DIRCO briefing
    2 Mar 2018

    The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) spoke about SANDF involvement in international peacekeeping operations. The brief was particularly relevant as the Joint Committee would visit SANDF members deployed in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from the 25 ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Department of Defence Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
    1 Mar 2018

    2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
    Department of Defence

    The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted (with amendments) the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Defence. Members focused, particularly, on the recommendations of the BRRR and submitted their inputs. 

  • Defence and Military Veterans Department of Defence on its 2016/17 Annual Report
    28 Feb 2018

    Annual Reports 2016/17 

    The Secretary of Defence briefed the Committee on the 2016/17 Annual Performance Report of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.  He informed the Committee that the DOD had been unable adhere to the PFMA requirement to submit the Annual Report for 2016/17 to National Treasury and ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Committee Annual Report; Committee Programme first term 2018; Study Tour plans
    29 Nov 2017

    The Committee met to consider outstanding minutes, its draft Annual Report and its Committee programme for the period 23 January to 29 March 2018 (first term). The Committee adopted all its minutes with technical amendments and also adopted its annual report for 2017.

    Members resolved to make some changes to ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Military Veterans call centre & database upgrade
    22 Nov 2017

    The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) briefed the Committee on the progress report on military veterans call centre and database.

    SITA pointed out that the lack of a credible database is considered a stumbling block to the effective distribution of benefits to deserving military veterans. The Department of Military Veterans ...

  • Defence and Military Veterans Defence & Military Veterans facilities: status report from Public Works & Department
    8 Nov 2017

    The Department of Defence (DoD) infrastructure portfolio briefed the Committee on the various challenges it was facing with regard to the projects which were being handled by the Department of Public Works (DPW).

    There were currently 104 capital works projects and 56 refurbishment projects under execution by the DPW, and ...