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Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture on Committee recommendations made during oversight between 2014-2017; with Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee and the Department of Arts and Culture met to address issues raised at the oversight visits from 2014 to date.
The Committee raised concerns on how the Department of Arts and Culture resolves issues raised by different entities, and if the Minister of the Department plays a ...
Social Development
SASSA finances: Internal Audit Committee report; Department Quarter 1 & 2 performance
7 Mar 2018
The internal audit committee reported on the roles, finances and activities it was engaged in within the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), and indicated its main role was to provide oversight and advice to management to ensure that they evaluated and put measures in place to close gaps in ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order, with Minister
28 Feb 2018
SASSA told the Committee that there had been some changes since the previous week’s meeting. It appeared that the March 2017 Constitutional Court judgement had ruled that SASSA could accept a tender from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). CPS had filed an application at the Constitutional Court in February to request ...
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 ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order
14 Feb 2018
The purpose of meeting with the Department of Social Development and SASSA had been to report on progress in implementing the Constitutional Court Order but media statements by the Minister's spokesperson and the media statement that SASSA had applied to the court to extend the Cash Paymaster Services contract for ...
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.
Social Development
Foster Care System: Progress Report by Department of Social Development, with Minister
22 Nov 2017
The Committee invited the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) to give progress reports on the foster care system in South Africa. Highlights of the brief by the DSD included the total number of children receiving foster child care grants; the use of ...
Arts and Culture
Arts and Culture funding; Fruitless and wasteful expenditure: DAC briefing
14 Nov 2017
“We had it. We lost it. We must find it.” That was one of the impassioned pleas made by the Chairperson of the Committee when it met with the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and reflected on the decline in social cohesion and nation building in recent years. This ...
Social Development
East Rand chronic underfunding of Child Welfare organisations: Social Development Department response to petition
1 Nov 2017
The Department of Social Development and the Gauteng Provincial Department of Social Development presented its response to the Committee to a petition submitted by Mr M Waters (DA) on the underfunding of child welfare services, on behalf of the East Rand. The Department acknowledged the fact that social services were ...
Social Development
SASSA Progress Report: briefing postponed; Social Development BRRR
18 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to first adopt its Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report. The Report was adopted by the Committee with no further amendments.
The Committee was then due to receive a progress report by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the Department of Social Development ...