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NCOP Health and Social Services
Human Settlements 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Deputy Minister
29 May 2018
The Department of Human Settlements briefed the Committee on their Annual Performance Plan and Budget Vote.
The proceedings stalled for some time as the Committee demanded that the Minister of her Deputy be present as the agenda was the Annual Performance Plan for the 2018/19 financial year.
The Committee heard ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Minister of Health's overview of Health & future plans
15 May 2018
The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, provided a detailed overview which clearly defined the four critical challenges of Human Resources, Financial Management, Procurement and Maintenance of Infrastructure and Equipment. If you master the human resources, financial management, procurement and infrastructure, the health system will operate well. It does not ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: adoption of programme for public hearings
10 May 2018
The meeting concerned the programme to facilitate public hearings on the proposed review of section 25 of the Constitution to provide for the expropriation of land without compensation.
Chairperson Smith noted the public hearings were originally scheduled to begin at the end of May 2018. The NCOP however had to ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Umalusi & SA Council of Educators (SACE) 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
25 Apr 2018
The South African Council of Educators (SACE) and Umalusi briefed the Select Committee on their annual performance plans for 2018/19, and highlighted the roles, key functions and mandates they fulfilled in the basic education system.
SACE stressed the importance of professionalism among teachers, and the programmes it had developed to ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Border Management Authority Bill [B9B-2016]: deliberations
24 Apr 2018
The Chairperson said that the absence of the Minister of Home Affairs, the Deputy Minister and the Director General, was making it difficult for the Committee to finalise the Border Management Authority Bill. Nevertheless, she allowed the Department’s legal advisor to give a presentation on the consolidated public comments received ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Registration at Universities and TVET Colleges; Revised Addis Convention on Recognition of Studies; NSFAS on Student Funding for 2018
28 Mar 2018
The Select Committee met to receive briefings from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) on the status of registrations at universities and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges. It was also updated on the revised Addis Convention report ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Financial management at Water Trading Entity & bulk water supply: Department briefing; with Minister & Deputy Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), in the presence of the new Minister and the Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on its financial management. The Department had been allocated a budget of R15.6 billion for the 2017/18 financial year. To date, R14.6 billion (93%) had been spent, leaving an ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: proposed programme for public hearings
20 Mar 2018
The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review was given a mandate by the National Assembly and the National Provincial Council of Provinces to review of Section 25 of the Constitution, and other clauses where necessary, to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation. ...
NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture
Winnie Mandela Brandfort House museum: Department of Arts and Culture, Lejweleputswa District Municipalit, Masilonyana Local Municipality
21 Feb 2018
The Select Committee on Recreation and Education met with the Department of Arts and Culture, Lejweleputswa District Municipality and the Masilonyana Local Municipality to obtain an update on the long outstanding project to convert Winnie Madikizela Mandela’s Brandfort house into a museum.
The Committee was unhappy with the lack of ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Border Management Authority Bill: National Treasury, SARS & SANDF concerns
20 Feb 2018
The Committee heard Treasury’s concern that the Border Management Authority Bill in its current form left discretion to the Minister of Home Affairs only and fragmented the revenue value chain involving 30% of the country’s revenue amounting to R300 billion. It applied not only to money collected at border posts ...