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NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Social Development & SASSA 2017/18 Annual Reports; with Deputy Minister
6 Nov 2018
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) told the Committee about how it was dealing with the effects of protest action on the organisation, clearing the backlog of applications and moving staff into a new building. Members wanted assurance that two new registered tuberculosis (TB) drugs ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Review of Section 25 of Constitution: draft Committee Report
1 Nov 2018
Draft Committee Report not availabe to public
The Constitutional Review Committee met to review the draft report on the possible review of section 25 of the constitution. The working document outlines the methodology that was used to elicit views from the public on the review of section 25, the summary ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: oral submissions
25 Oct 2018
VIDEO: Constitutional Review Committee Oral Presentations, 25 October 2018
The African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) said the Land Audit Report of 2017 glaringly shows the land ownership patterns in South Africa as skewed towards whites and corporate entities. The previous land reform programmes were a mere piecemeal with ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Department of Higher Education and Training 2017/18 Annual Report; with Deputy Minister
24 Oct 2018
The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training said that the 2017/18 year had been very eventful. The Department had been in recovery mode since the student protests which had been centred on the demand for free higher education, and the broad transformation issues within the sector. ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill [B15B-2017]: Final Mandates; National Public Health Institute of South Africa Bill [16B-2017]: briefing
23 Oct 2018
The National Department of Health briefed the Committee on the National Public Health Institute of SA (NAPHISA) Bill.
The Bill sought to establish the NAPHISA as a legally defined organ of state the aim of which was to provide integrated and coordinated disease and injury surveillance, research, monitoring and evaluation ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Election of Co-Chairperson (NA); Committee Programme
11 Oct 2018
The Committee met to elect a new Co-Chairperson and to adopt the programme on the way forward. After a slight delay in order to constitute the required quorum, Members elected Mr M Maila (ANC) as the new Co-Chairperson.
Following a brief discussion, the Committee also adopted its programme for the ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Minister of Arts and Culture briefing
10 Oct 2018
The Minister of Arts and Culture, accompanied by senior managers of his Department, met with the Committee to deliver a presentation on his vision for the Department and the activities, programmes and initiatives of its four branches.
He said the first branch was the Department’s administration, and referred to the ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Terblanche Petition
10 Oct 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
NCOP Health and Social Services
National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill [B15B-2017]: negotiating mandates
9 Oct 2018
The Select Committee on Social Services met to consider negotiating mandates on the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) Amendment Bill. The Committee received mandates from all the provinces, except Northern Cape. The province has not finalised its negotiating mandate, because the public hearings have been postponed. All provinces voted in ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Process: Reports on Public Submissions and Provincial & Parliament Hearings
13 Sep 2018
VIDEO: Joint Constitutional Review Committee receives briefing on written submissions,13 September 2018
The Committee discussed how to deal with the thousands of submissions it had received concerning section 25 of the Constitution. The Committee was not certain it would meet the deadline of September 28 to report ...