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Domestic Tourism: South African Tourism briefing
11 Sep 2015
South African Tourism (SA Tourism) briefed the Committee on its Domestic Tourism Marketing Strategy. The purpose of the briefing was to ensure that all questions pertaining to domestic tourism were dealt with. An executive summary of the Annual Performance Plan and Strategic Plan of SA Tourism was presented. The Committee ...
Tourism
Importance of Heritage Sites in Tourism Development: South African Heritage Resources Agency briefing
4 Sep 2015
The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) briefed the Committee on the importance of heritage sites in tourism development. The SAHRA was established in terms of Section 11 of the National Heritage Resources Act No.25 of 1999 (NHRA), which outlined an integrated interactive system for the management of the national ...
Transport
UBER & National Land Transport Act; NSRI on Medical Evacuations from Ships; Ex-PRASA sub-contracted workers
1 Sep 2015
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spoke about the low capacity of South Africa to perform helicopter medical evacuation services. The dangers of current techniques for rescue missions using boats were highlighted, and the need for the South African Air Force (SAAF) to maintain its helicopter fleet and make them ...
Transport
Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport on the recent Mamelodi bus commuters’ challenges: Status update on the latest developments & way forward
17 Aug 2015
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport provided the Committee with an overview of the status of the Mamelodi/Autopax bus contracts. The briefing included a detailed background of the issues involved, the eight affected contracts, an insight into Autopax -- its current operations and operational challenges -- objections from the ...
Tourism
South African Tourism 3rd & 4th quarter 2014/15 & 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance; 2015 Indaba Tourism Report
14 Aug 2015
Mr Thulani Nzima Chief Executive Officer, South African Tourism (SAT) reported that SAT and the tourism industry had experienced some challenges. There was the belief that SA was unsafe due to the outbreak of Ebola in some parts of Africa. Xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals also did not help matters. ...
Transport
Lesotho/RSA Cross Border challenges: National Ministerial Task Team briefing
11 Aug 2015
The National Ministerial Task Team (NMTT) presented a briefing on the Republic of South Africa (RSA)/ Lesotho cross border challenges to the Committee. Highlighted in the briefing were the results of the oversight visit of the Committee, the NMTT model to mitigate the impasse, recommendations arising from meeting with the ...
Transport
Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B12-2015]: Department of Transport (DoT) consideration of received submissions
23 Jun 2015
The responses to the questions sent by MPs to the Department of Transport (DoT), seeking clarification on the Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill 2015, were considered and further explained by the Chief Director of Maritime Transport Regulation, with the assistance of the Chief Director, Legal Services in the Department. This was ...
Tourism
South Africa’s tourism statistics: Statistics South Africa (Stats-SA) briefing; Third Term Committee Programme; Committee Budget Vote Report and Draft Tourism Indaba Report
19 Jun 2015
The Committee considered its Draft Third Term Programme 2015. It was agreed that necessary changes reflecting the inputs made by Members would be incorporated into the Programme that would be adopted at another time. The Committee also considered its Budget Vote Report and also deferred its adoption. Committee Minutes dated ...
There were three presentations from the Department of Transport. The first was a briefing on the National Learner Transport policy. The Department said the policy had been approved and adopted by Cabinet two weeks ago and the Department dwelt on the implementation aspect of the policy. The policy process started ...
Transport
Committee Oversight Reports on visits to various Transport entities
2 Jun 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Transport met to consider and adopt four oversight reports on its visits in November 2014 to the Cross Border Road Transport Agency (C-BRTA ) and SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) and visits in February 2015 to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), Air Traffic ...