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Social Development
Non Profit Organisations capacitation & compliance with NPO Act: NDA & DSD briefing
22 Aug 2018
The Committee was addressed by the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the National Development Agency (NDA) with regard to the capacitation of non-profit organisations (NPOs), as well as compliance with the NPO Act.
The DSD’s presentation shed light on the NPO database, the mandate in terms of the NPO ...
Arts and Culture
Robben Island Museum restoration; Robben Island & Nelson Mandela Museum organograms
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) briefed the Committee on the Robben Island Museum infrastructure plan, and acknowledged that the infrastructure and facilities were dilapidated and in a state of disrepair due to the lack of maintenance and slow progress of the capital works programme. The process that had ...
Social Development
Constitutional Court judgment: SASSA progress report
15 Aug 2018
Members received a progress report from the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) on the implementation of the Constitutional Court order. It highlighted the progress that had been made between April and August with regard to card swapping, payment challenges, risks, the phasing out of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), as ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report; Department of Social Development 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance
6 Jun 2018
Members were briefed by the Department of Social Development on its performance report for Quarter 4 and SASSA. Neither the Minister, Deputy Minister nor the Director General were present for this briefing which was the last before a the two month extended recess where this oversight committee returns only on ...
Social Development
Meeting with Indonesian Parliament delegation
16 May 2018
The Committee met with a parliamentary delegation from Indonesia.
The Chairperson explained that the South African government was a unitary state divided into many spheres of government; how South Africa was divided into nine provinces; how the government structure consisted of the Cabinet as headed by the President, and the ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development & NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
2 May 2018
The Committee received presentations on the Annual Performance Plans and budgets of the Department of Social Development and its two agencies that day following the preliminary discussions of the previous week.
The concerns of the previous week had been resolved. The responsibility for the Annual Performance Plan lay with the ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development & NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan (postponed)
25 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee met for a briefing by the National Development Agency on its Annual Performance Plan and the budget for the 2018/19 financial year. However, the presentation did not take place as the meeting was postponed before the presentation was made as the Committee and the Minister of Social ...
Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan, with Minister
24 Apr 2018
The Committee met to receive a briefing by the Department of Arts and Culture on their 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan.
The Minister noted that the Department celebrated the month of April as it was the month of the birth or the passing of many liberation activists and artists, and icons ...
Arts and Culture
PanSALB, PACOFS, National Arts Council Annual Performance Plan; Department APP: Auditor General input
17 Apr 2018
The Office of the Auditor-General South Africa said its briefing to the Committee on the Annual Performance Plan 2018/19 of the Department of Arts and Culture was intended to add value to the Committee’s oversight function. The presentation showed the link between the National Development Plan, the Medium Term Strategic ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order; Vacant posts in SASSA
28 Mar 2018
South African Social Security Agency and Others v Minister of Social Development and Others (CCT48/17) [2018] ZACC 9 (23 March 2018)
Black Sash Trust v Minister of Social Development and Others (Freedom Under Law NPC Intervening) (CCT48/17) [2017] ZACC 20; 2017 (9) BCLR 1089 (CC) (15 June 2017)
Black Sash ...