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NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Final Acts of ITU WRC ratification; Chairperson election; with Deputy Minister
25 May 2022
The Select Committee met on a virtual platform with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) for a briefing on the Final Acts of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference of 2019.
Committee Members asked if this international agreement ensures an increase in the number of female ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Executive Undertakings: Minister of Transport
19 May 2022
The Minister of Transport appeared before the Committee to report on progress made on Executive undertakings made in a plenary sitting of the National Council of Provinces on 27 October 2020. This undertaking concerned the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA) security spend.
Members wanted ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Department of Home Affairs 2022/23 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
18 May 2022
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Department of Home Affairs and the Border Management Authority on their Annual Performance Plans and budgets for the 2022/23 financial year.
The Department provided a breakdown of the budget per financial programme, the provincial budgets, and ...
NCOP Appropriations
Appropriation Bill & Second Adjustments Appropriation: National Treasury briefing & DoH Input
18 May 2022
The Select Committee on Appropriations met on a virtual platform to be briefed by National Treasury on the Appropriation Bill [B7-2022] and Second Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B8-2022].
During discussion, the Committee unanimously agreed that the issue of the debts owed to municipalities by government departments at the national and ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Withdrawal of section 139 interventions: Mafube and Maluti a Phofung Local Municipalities; State of forensic investigations in municipalities
17 May 2022
The Committee met with the Free State Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to receive briefings on the state of forensic investigations in municipalities and the withdrawal of section 139 interventions in the Mafube and Maluti a Phofung Local Municipalities.
The Department reported that it had ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Final Mandates
11 May 2022
The Select Committee on Appropriations convened on a virtual platform to consider and adopt the provinces’ final mandates on the Division of Revenue Bill [B6-2022] and to adopt the Committee report on the Bill.
Members presented the final mandates of the provinces but there was an issue with the ...
NCOP Finance
Follow up: IRBA annual update 2021/22 and challenges in executing mandate
10 May 2022
The Independent Regulator Board for Auditors (IRBA) updated the Select Committee on Finance on its 2021/22 annual performance and also challenges it experienced in executing its mandate. National Treasury gave a report clarifying progress of its work with IRBA.
IRBA achieved most of its annual targets for the 2021/22 ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Executive Undertakings: Minister of Social Development
5 May 2022
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Social Development on the implementation of Executive undertakings to combat gender-based violence given by the President in the National Council of Provinces. In introductory remarks, the Minister of Social Development expressed her concern about a growing rate of ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Negotiating Mandates
4 May 2022
The Select Committee on Appropriations met with National Treasury on a virtual platform to hear its responses to the public submissions to the Division of Revenue Bill [B6—2022]. The Committee also deliberated on the respective provinces’ negotiating mandates on the Bill.
During discussion, Members raised concern about the disconnection ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Minister of Health on Executive undertakings
21 Apr 2022
The Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings held a virtual meeting to be briefed by the Department of Health on implementing undertakings about the Covid-19 vaccination programme made in the National Council of Provinces by the Deputy President in March 2021.
The Minister of ...