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NCOP Security and Justice
Inter-Departmental Annual Report 2013/14; Schedule determining rates: Department of Justice
18 Feb 2015
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented the Inter-Departmental Annual Report of 2013/14, with a special focus on the implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (the Act), and the draft notice and schedules for determining the salaries of magistrates and judges.
In ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Committee guidelines and programme
18 Feb 2015
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings met to adopt the Committee guidelines, to consider the 2015 First Term Programme and the adoption of the draft minutes of Committee meetings in November 2014. The Committee agreed that Clause 9 of the Committee guidelines, covering the “submission of petition” process, ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Intervention in Mtubatuba Local Municipality: briefing by Mayor and Member of Executive Council
11 Feb 2015
The Select Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs met to receive briefings by Mayor and the Member of Executive Council (MEC) for the Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (DCGTA) on the intervention at the Mtubatuba Local Municipality in KwaZuluNatal.
The Mayor of Mtubatuba Local Municipality said ...
NCOP Security and Justice
KwaZulu-Natal Oversight Report; Possible International Study Tour: deliberations; First Term Committee Programme 2015
19 Nov 2014
The Committee deferred the adoption of its Kwazulu-Natal Oversight Report to its next meeting as the Committee wished changes made to be incorporated before adoption. Some of the incorporations to be included in the Report were recommendations that the Department of Justice should set aside funds for the opening of ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Legal Aid South Africa Bill: input from Department of Justice and Correctional Services, Law Society of South Africa & Legal Aid south Africa
5 Nov 2014
The Law Society South Africa's representative made a submission to the Committee in respect of the Legal Aid South Africa Bill, and the Committee asked also for comment on that submission from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, which summarised its own and the Legal Aid South Africa's remarks ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Mkhize and Sehume: petitions briefings and preliminary deliberations
5 Nov 2014
The Select Committee on the Petitions and Executive Undertakings deliberated on two petitions; the first from Mr Mkhize of the Gugulethu, Cape Town in relation to the death of his late wife Ms Matiwane, and the second from Mr Andrew Sehume from Gauteng Province. Although both had apparently made submissions ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates grievances: progress report; Legal Aid South Africa Bill: Department of Justice briefings, in presence of Minister
29 Oct 2014
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the progress in dealing with the grievances that the Magistrates associations had raised in regard to salary and conditions of service. They had essentially asked that the pension and medical aid ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates Commission: briefing on suspension of Magistrates from office
17 Sep 2014
The meeting focused mainly on the Magistrates Commission’s inquiries into the misconduct of magistrates who had been suspended, or provisionally suspended, from office because their conduct was unfit and improper to warrant them holding these positions. The purpose of the presentations was to inform Parliament on the suspensions, from which ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Section 139 Intervention: Mpofana Local Municipality & Ngaka Modira Molema District Municipality; Committee Programme
5 Sep 2014
The Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met for the consideration of Committee Programme on Notices of Interventions in terms of Section 139 (1) (c) of the Constitution at Mpofana Local Municipality and Ngaka Modira Molema District Municipality.
Members endorsed both notices of Mpofana Local Municipality and Ngaka ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Defence Secretariat, South African National Defence Force & Department of Military Veterans on their 2014 Strategic Plans
30 Jul 2014
The Secretary of Defence presented the Department of Defence (DOD) 2014/15 budget allocation and performance plan. The strategic priorities included job creation, revitalisation of reserves, restructuring and support of defence security and enhancement of Department of Defence works capability. The major challenge DOD was facing was underfunding as the National ...