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Arts and Culture
Committee Report on Arts and Culture Budget; Committee Oversight report to National Arts Council and Ditsong Museums of South Africa Satellite Sites
18 May 2017
The Committee sat to consider two reports. It considered its draft budget vote report and its oversight report.
In respect of the budget report the following was added to the findings:
-Underspending by the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) on infrastructure.
-The quality of information submitted by DAC to ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Committee Report on Environmental Affairs Budget
18 May 2017
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt the Report approving the Department of Environmental Affairs Budget Vote. Members made minor changes and suggested that the report should include a timeframe that was given by the Committee to the Board of South African Weather Service on the payment for the ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan, AGSA input; Committee Report on Water and Sanitation Budget
17 May 2017
The Office of the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) presented a report on the review of the 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). The report focused mainly on the significant programmes of the Department, and excluded the water boards and Section 4(3) audits. ...
Arts and Culture
Copyright & Performers Protection Bills: sectoral impact briefing
16 May 2017
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on the sectoral impact of the Draft Copyright Bill and the Draft Performers Protection Bill
DTI gave the background to the development of the two bills and the objectives behind the amendments. They recommended that the Committee should take note that the bills did ...
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation Draft Policy: Department briefing
10 May 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on upcoming legislation. The thrust of the presentation was that the Department wanted to merge the National Water Act and Water Services Act into one piece of legislation. The presentation the covered the key drivers of this legislative ...
Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture & William Humphrey Art Gallery on their Annual Performance Plans
9 May 2017
The Committee met to receive a briefing by the William Humphreys Art Gallery (WHAG) and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) on their 2017/18 annual performance plans (APPs) and strategic plans.
In its overview on the WHAG’s APP and strategic plan, the DAC reported that 89% of the targets ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on its Annual Performance Plan with Minister & Deputy Minister
9 May 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) presented an overview of its annual performance plan (APP) for the period 2017/18 to 2019/20 to the Portfolio Committee. It listed its goals as
enhancing and protecting water as a resource across the value chain, equitable access to reliable, sustainable and acceptable water ...
Arts and Culture
Market Theatre; Boer Republic War Museum & KZN Museum on their Annual Performance Plan
4 May 2017
The KwaZulu-Natal and War Museum with the Market Theatre Foundation presented their Annual Performance and Strategic Plan for 2017/18.
The Portfolio Committee wanted all entities to be in the same meeting so that each would learn from one another and actually see what it can improve on. The presentations were ...
Water and Sanitation
Water Research Commission & Inkomati Usuthu Catchment Management Agency on their Annual Performance Plan
4 May 2017
The Water Research Commission (WRC), focused his presentation on the six goals that the WRC aimed. These goals are to inform policy and decision-making, develop new products and services for economic development, enhance human capital development (HCD), empower communities, promote transformation and redress, and drive sustainable development solutions.
The 5-year ...
Water and Sanitation
Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority & Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management Authority Performance Plans, with Deputy Minister
3 May 2017
The practice of members of water boards being paid monthly salaries whether they attended board meetings or not -- and especially after it had been agreed that such payments should stop – completely dominated the second half the meeting between the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation and two entities ...