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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Abuse of women and children by religious leaders/sector: CRL Commission briefing
30 Oct 2018
The Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Commission (CRL Rights Commission) presented its recommendations to prevent the commercialisation of religion and the abuse and exploitation of people’s belief systems. There is a lack of proper regulation to control churches that are operating outside of ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Election of chairperson
24 Oct 2018
The Committee elected Ms C Ncube-Ndaba (ANC) to chair the Committee.
At the next meeting, the Committee intends to consider a draft competency framework, a draft advertisement for vacancies and a draft programme.
The Committee agreed to schedule meetings on Wednesday’s.
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency 2018/19 Annual Report; with Minister
17 Oct 2018
The Committee and the Department of women (DOW) met to discuss the questions the Committee had for the DOW regarding the 2017/2018 Annual Report. The Committee asked for explanation on points that lacked clarity as well as points of inquiry. The meeting with a prayer at the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department on Women Annual Report 2017/18 analysis
10 Oct 2018
Parliamentary Researcher and Content Advisor presentations are available to public
The Committee Content Advisor and Researcher gave an overview of their analysis and assessment of the 2017/18 Department of Women Annual Report before it met with the Department on 17 October 2018. They found the same inconsistencies and discrepancies raised ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality 2017/18 Annual Reports, with AGSA input
9 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency was briefed by the Department of Women and the Commission for Gender Equality on their Annual Reports and received a presentation by the Auditor-General of South Africa on the two Annual Reports.
The Auditor-General of South Africa found that ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Sanitary Pads Initiative & Gender-Based Violence Summit update
4 Sep 2018
The Chairperson informed Members that the briefing of the current state of the National Gender Machinery Summit had been postponed due to the unavailability of Minister Bathabile Dlamini and the difficulties with getting hold of the people that were supposed to be working with her on this particular matter.
She ...
Police
Domestic Violence Act Reports: Civilian Secretariat & SAPS briefing with civil society input
28 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committees on Police and Women in the Presidency met jointly for the first of a two-day special focus on the Domestic Violence Act and Gender-Based Violence in SA. The South African Police Service (SAPS) presented its biannual report in terms of Section 18 (5) (d) of the Domestic ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 1 performance, with Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Women (DoW) presented its first quarter performance report for the 2018/19 financial year, with the Minister in attendance. The Minister stressed that a combined government and society-wide effort must be made to address the multi-dimensional issues of women.
The presentation covered the overall Departmental performance, as well ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee observed that the Department of Women in the Presidency (DWP) had tabled its annual performance plan (APP) late, which would result in a finding against the Department, as confirmed by the Auditor General, and it wanted an explanation for this. The DWP had also not implemented some of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Annual Performance Plan: Content Adviser and Researcher input
2 May 2018
The Committee Researcher reported that the expenditure report indicates under Vote 13 that the Department for Women has spent R150.2 million of its available budget of R206.2 million. The expenditure represents 98.3% of the R152.8million projected expenditure for this period. Strategic objectives include the promotion of strategic leadership, gender knowledge, ...