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Defence and Military Veterans
Armscor, Castle Control Board 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
9 May 2018
Armscor and the Castle Control Board (CCB) briefed the Committee on their respective annual performance plans for 2018.
Armscor said that it had a mandate to provide services to other organs of state, and currently offered acquisition, research and development (R & D) and quality assurance services to other countries ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan & Quarter 4 performance
9 May 2018
The Department of Defence briefed the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans on its 2018 Annual Performance Plan and 2018/19 budgetary allocation. The brief focussed on aims, strategic overview, programme and sub-programme plans and links to other plans. The Department gave an update on the 2018 situational analysis. In ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Meeting with Royal Defence College, UK
8 May 2018
The Committee met with a delegation visiting from the Royal Defence College in the UK. The delegation provided Members with information on the background of the college. The students were brought over to learn about South Africa, Southern Africa and the whole region in terms of security, economy, development stability ...
Defence
Committee Business: Letters from the President; Second Term Committee Programme
3 May 2018
The Committee considered the letters from the President dated 26 March and April 2018. The Committee adopted the letters; however, the DA objected due to the delay in the receipt of the letters because Members were not granted sufficient time to follow up on the issues outlined on the letters. ...
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 ...
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
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 ...