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Constitutional Review Committee
Election of co-chairpersons
26 Mar 2015
The Committee elected Mr Vincent Smith as the Co-Chairperson of the National Assembly component of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review and Mr Lewis Nzimande as the Co-Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces component of the Committee.
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Interrogation of Department of Public Works 2014 Annual Report and Financial Statements, in presence of Deputy Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts, with the Deputy Minister of Public Works also present, interrogated the Annual Report and financial statements of the Department of Public Works (DPW) for the 2014 financial year. Engagement was centred around the qualified audit opinion in relation to the Property Management Trading Entity ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 4
11 Mar 2015
The core of the submissions is as follows:
Childline
This submission supported the decriminalisation of consensual sexual activity between adolescents, because it has not only reduced these people’s access to education about healthy sexual choices and clinical reproductive health services, but also has proven to be an ineffective measure against ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department International Relations & Cooperation & African Renaissance Fund: Interrogation of Annual Report 2013/14
11 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts interrogated the 2013/14 Annual Report of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the financial statements of the African Renaissance Fund (ARF), which had fallen under the DIRCO since 2011. DIRCO had 125 missions abroad and 20 were visited during the audit, ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 3
10 Mar 2015
The core of each submission was as follows:
Community Law Centre
This submission, which was endorsed by a further 20 organisations, argued that the criminalisation of consensual sexual activity caused secondary trauma to affected children, shuts down communicative links with people who are in a position to educate children about ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Home Affairs; Department of International Relations and Cooperation: hearings of evidence
4 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts held a hearing of evidence with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). The hearings were based on the departments’ annual reports for 2013/14 and the Auditor-General’s report for the same financial year.
The DHA said ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 1
3 Mar 2015
The meeting began with the adoption of a Committee Report to the National Assembly about the application to the Chief Justice for an extension of the period by which Parliament must have amended the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act. The Committee then heard submissions on the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Interrogation of Department of Defence 2013/14 Annual Report: Auditor-General's findings
3 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met with the National Treasury, and the Secretary for Defence, since feedback from those parties would assist the Committee in coming to a conclusion whether to recommend the condonation of irregular expenditure, which amounted to over R1 billion and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, in ...
Defence and Military Veterans
2014-2019 Committee Strategic Plan & Committee programme
18 Feb 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans met to discuss and adapt their draft minutes from 2014, and Members were also asked to consider and adopt the Committee's programme, strategic plan. However, the meeting became bogged down in a discussion of the current agenda, linked to whether correspondence sent ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act: introductory briefing
3 Feb 2015
The Department of Justice said the Bill aimed to amend the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007, by giving effect to the two separate judgments of the Constitutional Court, namely the Teddy Bear case dealing with sections 15 and 16 of the Act and the J ...