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Home Affairs Quarter 2 & 3 performance; National Treasury on funding pressure in DHA
31 Jan 2017
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) briefed the Committee on quarter two and three performance reports.
The Department had a total of 36 targets planned for quarter 2 of 2016/17 financial year. 28 targets were achieved representing a 78% achievement rate, and 8 (22%) targets were not achieved.
The Department ...
Home Affairs
Refugees Amendment Bill [B12-2016]: public hearings
24 Jan 2017
Refugees Act 130 of 1998
Refugees Amendment Act 12 of 2011
Green Paper on International Migration, June 2016
The Committee heard submissions from the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFRC), Amnesty International South Africa (AISA), Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Rwandan Refugee Community Association (RRCA) and Consortium for Refugees and Migrants ...
International Relations
Committee Business
7 Dec 2016
The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation met to adopt 15 sets of minutes dating back from March 2016. A few editorial changes were made to the minutes and the minutes were then adopted with their amendments.
The Chairperson informed the Committee that it should pick one country instead ...
Home Affairs
Department of Home Affairs Annual Report 2015/16: Auditor-General and Department's briefings: Minister and Deputy Minister present
6 Dec 2016
Annual Reports 2015/16
The Minister and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs were present at the meeting. The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the audit outcomes for 2015/16 of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The Annual Report had only just been submitted to Parliament. The AGSA stated ...
International Relations
DIRCO & African Renaissance Fund on Quarter 1 performance
30 Nov 2016
The DIRCO Audit Committee, an external body, reported that meeting with DIRCO on the turnaround strategy to address the Auditor-General’s audit findings and qualified audit opinion would only take place on 6 December, so it would be difficult to make any comments before that meeting. The Audit Committee would only ...
Home Affairs
Congolese Community of South Africa submission; Border Management Amendment Bill: consideration; 2017 Programme
29 Nov 2016
The Committee considered amendments to the Border Management Authority (BMA) Bill. It had gone through all the amendments that had been proposed in previous meetings, and these had to be adopted and incorporated into the bill prior to considering it clause by clause. Amendments that had been made would affect ...
International Relations
SA Foreign Policy issues; Meeting with South African Council on International Relations
16 Nov 2016
A delegation from the South African Council on International Relations (SACOIR) met with the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation to discuss the recent US election and its impact on South Africa’s foreign policy. Though the US election was only briefly discussed, the delegation gave a detailed account of ...
Home Affairs
Refugees Amendment Bill [B12-2016]: public hearings
15 Nov 2016
Legal entities and non-governmental organisations with an interest in the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees in South Africa made representations to the Committee as part of the public hearings on the Refugees Amendment Bill.
An immigration lawyer who provides legal advice on immigration and refugee law in South Africa, presented ...
International Relations
Engagement with Chinese youth diplomats to exchange views on promoting South Africa-China friendship and relations
9 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation met with a 23-person delegation from the People’s Republic of China. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange views on promoting the South Africa-China friendship and bilateral relationship. The young diplomats were given a thorough briefing on the history of cooperation between ...
Home Affairs
Border Management Authority Bill: deliberations; Constitutional Court ruling on search and seizure without a warrant
8 Nov 2016
The Chairperson noted that the letter sent to the National Treasury for compensation of employees was responded to and the response was immediately sent to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to consider and it was expecting the DHA to brief the Committee on that response. He noted that there ...