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NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Embrace Dignity Petition Report
2 May 2018
The Committee met to consider and adopt the Embrace Dignity Petition Report, its Study Tour Report to Sweden and to consider and outstanding Committee minutes. Following adoption of the Committee agenda for the meeting, the DA wished to add to the agenda that the Committee discuss the visit made by ...
NCOP Security and Justice
SAPS on its 2018 Annual Performance Plan: Meeting postponed
18 Apr 2018
The South African Police Service (SAPS) was supposed to present its 2018/19 annual performance plan. However; SAPS was not allowed to proceed after the Committee noted that the Minister and Deputy Minister were not present at the meeting. The National Commissioner was also currently appearing before the Portfolio Committee on ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) petition: Special Investigating Unit & Department of Labour hearing
18 Apr 2018
The Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) Petition dealt with the alleged failure by TRTC to pay pension monies and severance packages to former employees subsequent to its liquidation. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) gave a briefing on the proclamation mandate of the SIU investigation, facts shown by the investigation and ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Public Service Commission Amendment Bill: Public Service Commission briefing
17 Apr 2018
The Department of Public Services and Administration briefed the Committee on the proposed amendments to the Public Service Commission Act. The first amendment sought to allow for a renewal of the term of the Commissioner on recommendation from the National Assembly or Provincial Legislatures. The second amendment sought to allow ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates Commission on suspension of magistrates/removal from office & withholding of remuneration
28 Mar 2018
The Magistrates Commission came to the Committee to seek confirmation of the recommendations they had made regarding magistrates who had been charged with misconduct. It provided details of the specific allegations against them, when the misconduct had occurred, the disciplinary processes followed and subsequent involvement by the courts. Their recommendations ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Minister of Health & Minister of Human Settlements Progress Reports
22 Nov 2017
The Committee met with the Minister of Human Settlements to be briefed on the progress made with an Executive undertaking made by the Minister during a policy debate on human settlements on 12 May 2015. The Minister outlined that the Department of Human Settlements was responsible for providing housing to ...
NCOP Security and Justice
International Arbitration Bill & Legal Practice Amendment Bill: finalisation, Deputy Minister; Suspension of Magistrate V Gqiba
22 Nov 2017
The Committee met to adopt the International Arbitration Bill and Legal Practice Amendment Bill – the Committee adopted the Bills along with their Committee Reports on the Bills. On the Legal Practice Amendment Bill, a briefing by the Department of Justice, in the presence of Deputy Minister John Jeffery, was ...
Joint Rules
Bills before Parliament and Legislation in 2017; Parliamentary Programme Framework for 2018
16 Nov 2017
JOINT PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Chairpersons: Committee Secretaries:
Ms B Mbete: Speaker of the NA Andrew Mbanga (2623
Ms T R Modise: Chairperson of the NCOP Jeremy Michaels (3245
DRAFT MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Ministers of Health & Human Settlements: progress reports on Executive Undertakings: meeting postponed
8 Nov 2017
The meeting was cancelled and postponed until further notice after a deliberation on whether the Committee would allow the senior officials to account on behalf of the Ministers. Members felt that the meeting could not take place irrespective of the fact that Ministers had delegated their Director Generals to brief ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Legal Practice Amendment Bill: Department briefing, with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Select Committee on the Legal Practice Bill. The Bill amended the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014. The aim of the Bill was to address practical and technical issues of a non–contentious nature that would enhance a smooth transition to the ...