No

ACTIVITY

OBJECTIVES

DATES

Completed

1

Adoption of 2002 Annual Committee Report.

Discussions with Department on Immigration Regulations

To comply with NA Rules.


Ensure compliance with Immigration Act.

19 February 2003 (09:00 – 13:00)

Yes


Yes

2

Deliberations with Department on Immigration Regulations.

Ensure compliance with Immigration Act.

25 February 2003 (11:00 – 13:00)

Yes

3

Deliberation on Immigration Regulations.

Ensure Compliance with Immigration Act.

4 March 2003 (11:00 – 13:00)

Yes

4

Briefing on Budget Vote 4: Home Affairs.

Ensure budget is spent on priority areas. Briefing to include: strategic plan on how to make Home Affairs accessible in the rural areas; strategic plan of addressing staff shortages in the Department and progress with updating IT systems in the Department. Main objective is thus to ensure that Departmental Budget is spent on priority areas.

11 March 2003 (11:00 – 13:00)

Meeting took place but Department not prepared

5

Deliberation on Budget Vote 4: Home Affairs

Ensure budget spent on priority areas.

18 March 2003 (11:00 - 13:00)

Yes

6

Briefing by Minister and Deputy Minister on:
Court Case re Immigration Regulations
ID Campaign
Container Project.

1)To ensure passed legislation is implemented.
2) To ensure readiness for next elections.
3) To ensure Civic Services are rendered in rural areas.

25 March 2003 (11:00 – 13:00)

Meeting took place but Minister sent apology

7

Briefing by Minister on Court Case on Immigration Regulations, ID campaign and Container Project. Briefing by Department on Hanis and Legislation to be introduced to Parliament.

To oversee implementation of Hanis project and to prepare for legislation to be dealt with.

1 April 2003 (10:00 – 13:00)

Yes

8

Briefing by Deputy Minister re Civic Services.

To ensure set service standards are met.

8 April 2003 (11:00 – 13:00)

No

9

Briefing by Minister on Court Ruling on Immigration Regulations and on Legislation to be referred to the Committee. Briefing by Acting DG on Transformation and Restructuring.

To oversee work of Department and to ensure compliance with Government goals.

15 April 2003 (11:00 - 13:00)

Yes

Easter Weekend.

18 – 21 April 2003

Constituency period.

22 April to 9 May

10

Oversight visits to Eastern Cape: Umtata and surrounding regions

To ensure service delivery, compliance with legislation and to fight corruption

5 – 9 May 2003 (Last week of Constituency period)

Yes

11

IEC to brief Committee on the ID campaign, Voter Education and Voters; Roll.

To ensure readiness for elections and to ensure voter education for elections

20 May 2003

Yes

12

Deliberation on Draft Immigration Regulations and Tabling of Report of Visit to Eastern Cape.

Oversight over work of Department.

27 May 2003

Yes

13

Deliberation on Draft Immigration Regulations.
Directorate of ID campaign to brief committee on their activities and on their programme in each province.

Oversight over passed legislation.
Ensure voters are empowered to vote.

3 June 2003

14

Finalisation of Report of Committee visit to Eastern Cape.
Deliberations on Immigration Regulations.

Oversight over passed legislation.
Ensure voters are empowered to vote.

10 June 2003

16

Delegation to visit Limpompo province to oversee ID campaign, Birth Registrations and the work of provincial IEC offices.

Oversight over ID campaign to ensure voters are provided with ID documents and also to ensure birth registrations to ensure access to the social grants. To ensure readiness of IEC in the provinces.

23 – 27 June 2003

17

Oversight visit to Home Affairs Head Office and to the IEC Head Office.
Oversight to Gauteng over ID campaign and Birth Registrations to enable people to access Social Grants.

Oversight over Department.
Oversight over IEC to ensure readiness for 2004 elections. Oversight over ID campaign to ensure voters are provided with ID documents and also to ensure birth registrations to ensure access to the social grants

28 July – 1 August 2003 (Designated Committee week)

18

Delegation to visit North West province to oversee ID campaign, Birth Registrations and the work of provincial IEC offices.

Oversight over Department.
Oversight over IEC to ensure readiness for 2004 elections. Oversight over ID campaign to ensure voters are provided with ID documents and also to ensure birth registrations to ensure access to the social grants

11 – 14 August 2003

19

Meeting with Refugees and stakeholders (NGO’s, SAPS, Black Sash) at Parktonian Hotel in Braamfontein. Also visit Lindela holding center.

15 and 16 September 2003

20

Review Dapartments Annual Report and Interact with Dept on Report
.

Oversight over Departmental work

End of September 2003

21

Visit to Ports of Entry (Cape Town International, JIA, and four major border posts to neighboring countries.

October 2003

22

Training by the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (Wits) and the Southern African Migration Project

13 – 17 October 2003. (Training to take place at Parliament during this Committee week. Training to take place Mon – Frid and lecturers to come to CT especially to train MP’s)

23

24

ACTIVITY:

PUBLIC HEARINGS IN PARLIAMENT

Electoral Amendment Bill
Film and Publication Amendment Bill and
Alteration of Sex Description Status Bill

PURPOSE

TO PROMOTE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE

LEGISLATIVE AND GOVERNANCE PROCESS

Estimated Costs of Adverts

R8 000 x 3 advertisements

R24 000

Estimated number of Hearings

 1 hearing for 5 days

Catering

 R5000 x 3 hearings

R15 000

SUB-TOTAL

R39 000

PURPOSE:

MONITOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PASSED LEGISLATION

Places to be visited

Eastern Cape

Delegation

5

Flights: JNB/PE/East London/JNB

 R3584 x 5 members

R 17 920

Ground Transport for four days

 R1000 x 4 days

R4000

Hotel Accommodation 4 nights

 R450 X 5 members x 4 evenings

R9000

Subsistence and Travel allowance

 R114 x 4 x 5

R2280

SUB-TOTAL

R 33 200.

1.

Oversight visits to Eastern Cape, Northern Province, KZN and Mpumalanga

Oversight visits to ensure readiness for elections. Ensure ID campaign and voter registration is taking place.

19 – 25 January 2004

2.

Briefing by Department on Budget Vote 4: Home Affairs

Ensure budget spent on priority areas.

3 Febryary 2004 (11:00 - 13:00)

3.

Briefing by Department on delivery of Civic Services in Provinces. (Continuation of Budget Vote 4). Briefing to include successes and failures of previous year. Department also to illustrate how they implemented their strategic plan to improve service delivery

1)To ensure service delivery and that budget is spent on priority areas.

10 February 2004 (11:00 – 13:00)

4.

Briefing by Department on Hanis and Legislation to be introduced to Parliament.

To oversee implementation of Hanis project and to prepare for legislation to be dealt with.

17 February 2004 (11:00 – 13:00)

5.

Briefing by DG on Transformation and Restructuring.

To ensure stable environment in Department that is in line with government transformation policy

24 February 2004 (11:00 – 13:00)

6.

Visit to IEC Head Office to ensure Readiness for elections.

Oversee readiness for elections

2 March 2004