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Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture Quarter 2 and 3 performance
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Arts and Culture briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 and 3 performance.
Among matters needing immediate attention were updates on the National Heritage Monument programme. Accomplishments on the building of monuments of liberation struggle leaders were announced.
The Department committed to investing in other monumental projects ...
Arts and Culture
Committee Reports on Mpumalanga Enyokeni Cultural Precinct & Kwazulu-Natal Museum oversight
13 Feb 2018
The Committee considered and approved three outstanding reports with amendments. The Committee also adopted several outstanding minutes.
Arts and Culture
Arts and Culture Venture Capital Fund; PANSALB public hearing report on multilingualism & official languages
6 Feb 2018
Document handed out: Arts and Culture Venture Capital Fund [awaited]
The National Empowerment Fund (NEF) noted some performance milestones such as 919 transactions worth R9.2 billion and disbursement of about R6.2 billion since inception. The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) had entrusted the NEF through a tender process to ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
SADC Protocol on Environmental Management for Sustainable Development; Marine Spatial Planning Bill: adoption
29 Nov 2017
The Committee met to be briefed by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Environmental Management for Sustainable Development, and to adopt the ‘B’ version of the Marine Spatial Planning Bill.
The purpose of the DEA brief was to request that Parliament, ...
Water and Sanitation
Special Investigating Unit investigations of Water & Sanitation Department 2014-2017; National Treasury on DWS Debt Management; BRRR
1 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: National Treasury: Progress on the Overdraft of the WTE [awaited]; Special Investigating Unit: Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation[not available to public]
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) did not seem to have the venom of the cobra which was portrayed in its logo. This was the ...
Arts and Culture
PanSALB: Asmal Report recommendations - OISD briefing; Arts and Culture BRRR
24 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to first consider and adopt its draft Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR), dated 18 October 2017. Having gone through the Draft report page by page, the Committee emphasised recommendations made in the previous financial year were important to ...
Water and Sanitation
Water Infrastructure Development, Internal Audit, Debt Collection, War on Leaks and Drop a Block: Department briefing, with Deputy Minister
18 Oct 2017
The Department briefed the Committee on the Overview of Water Infrastructure Development. The Deputy Minister Ms Pamela Tshwete was present. The Department wanted to respond to the issue of what was done with the R12 million reported in the Annual Report if it only achieved 33%. It stated that the ...
Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture 2016/17 Annual Report, with Minister and Deputy
17 Oct 2017
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) was commended by the Committee on receiving an unqualified opinion from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), based on its audit of the Department’s 2016/17 annual performance report. At the same time, it attracted criticism for the under-expenditure of ...
Arts and Culture
PANSALB, Robben Island Museum, Free State Performing Arts Centre 2016/17 Annual Report
10 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee met with the Performing Arts Centre of the Free State (PACOFS), the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) and the Robben Island Museum, who presented their annual performance reports.
PACOFS said it had presented a total of 56 performances, of which 21 ...
Water and Sanitation
Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, Water Research Commission, Inkomati Usuthu Catchment Management Agency, Breede Gouritz Catchment Management Agency 2016/17 Annual Report
5 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met with the water agencies that fall within the ambit of the Department of Water and Sanitation. Although the entities had clean audits and sound administration, there was apparently too little money for nine Catchment Management Agencies. Based on ...