Chairperson: Ms ZA Kota-Fredericks

The mission of the Committee is to ensure that Parliament gets value for money spent for the purpose of building houses. The committee will continue to encourage visible housing delivery and adherence to better quality of housing units.

The vision of the Committee is to work with all relevant stakeholders willing to participate in the building of houses and assist the department in its constitutional imperative and mandate of providing everyone with an access to adequate housing.

Thubelisha Homes

National Urban Construction and Housing Agency (NURCHA)

People’s Housing Partnership Trust (PHPT)

Servcon Housing Solutions (SERVCON)

National Home Builders’ Registration Council (NHBRC)

National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC)

Social Housing Foundation (SHF)

Rural Housing Loan Fund (RHLF)

The priority areas for the Committee are:

To process new legislation.

To facilitate oversight functions over the Department of Housing, with a view to ascertain their strategic plan and priorities.

To perform oversight functions over the Department of Housing with a view to assess the provision of human settlement in provinces.

To perform oversight functions over the housing support institutions in order to ascertain their fulfillment of mandate.

To perform oversight functions with other relevant departments who are central in the provision of houses e.g. local government.

To facilitate the access of women in housing and people with disabilities as building contractors.

To draw from international best practises how the housing delivery has been dealt with e.g. UN Habitat and international visits and exchange programmes.

There was no legislation dealt with by the Committee this year.

The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Housing as follows:

National Housing Summit Report - 3 February, 2004

Women in Housing Summit Report - 3 February, 2004

Community Re-Investment Bill - 3 February, 2004

Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of the Land Bill 3 February, 2004

Strategic Plan and Budget Vote 2 June, 2004

New Comprehensive Housing Plan 9 September, 2004

Workshop on the New Comprehensive Housing Plan 17 November 2004

The Committee also conducted oversight over the Strategic Plan of the National Department of Housing and the Gauteng Department of Housing as follows:

National Department of Housing - 11 October, 2004

Gauteng Department of Housing - 12-13 October, 2004

The Committee also received briefings from other entities as follows:

Statistics South Africa - 18 August, 2004

Statistics South Africa - 14 September, 2004

The committee has not been able to undertake any of the planned international visits since 2001. All requests have been turned down.

The Chairperson attended the South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) Forum held in Pretoria, between 30 June to 4 July, 2004.

Two Committee members attended the 2nd WSSD Summit in Johannesburg, between 30 June to 4 July, 2004.

The Committee held a bosberaad on the Committee’s Strategic Plan and budget between 2-3 August, 2004.

The Committee participated in the National Housing Imbizo in Khayelitsha, convened by the Western Cape Housing Department on 11 August, 2004.

The Committee undertook the provincial visit to Gauteng province, between 11-15 October, 2004.

The Committee participated in the "Kenneth Kaunda Work Project 2004" in building a house in Mamelodi, Pretoria, between 24-26 November, 2004.

The Chairperson attended all MINMEC meetings which were scheduled as follows:

21 January, 2004: Gauteng Province

11-12 March, 2004: Gauteng Province

31 May – 01 June, 2004: Western Cape Province

29-30 June, 2004: KwaZulu-Natal Province

25-26 October, 2004: Eastern Cape Province

6-7 December, 2004: Mpumalanga Province

The delegations that undertook the trips mentioned above are as follows:

Mr DC Mabena

Mr GD Schneemann

Ms ZA Kota (Chairperson)

Ms BN Dambuza

Mr TS Dodovu

Mr DC Mabena

Mr GD Schneemann

Mr AC Steyn

Mr SJ Masango

Ms M Ntuli - Committee Secretary

Mr S Makeleni - Committee Assistant

Ms E Scholtz - Secretary to Chairperson

Ms ZA Kota (Chairperson)

Ms BN Dambuza

Mr TS Dodovu

Mr DC Mabena

Mr GD Schneemann

Mr AC Steyn

Mr SJ Masango

Mr BW Dlamini

Rev MS Khumalo

Ms M Ntuli - Committee Secretary

Ms E Scholtz - Secretary to Chairperson

Ms ZA Kota (Chairperson)

Ms BN Dambuza

Mr TS Dodovu

Mr DC Mabena

Mr GD Schneemann

Mr AC Steyn

Mr BW Dlamini

Mr ZS Mkhize

Ms NJ Ngele

Mr S Abram

Adoption of Committee Budget - 18 February, 2004

Election of Committee Chairperson - 12 May, 2004

Adoption of Committee Business Plan and programme - 26 May, 2004

Meeting to discuss the Housing Budget Vote - 27 May, 2004

Meeting with Women in Housing in its attempt to build

a house for a vulnerable woman -11 August, 2004

Held housing public hearings with eight (8) housing institutions: 2-3 November, 2004

Catering: R10,453.60

Provincial Visits: R137,120.00

Overseas Trips:

Conferences:

Seminars:

Workshops:

Public Hearings: R75,315.00

The committee visited the following provinces in the previous years and still needs to do a follow-up in the implementation process:

North West

KwaZulu-Natal

Eastern Cape

7.2 The committee still needs to debate the report on the Gauteng provincial visit in parliament, which was undertaken on 11-15 October 2004.

8. FORMAL ADOPTION OF ANNUAL REPORT BY THE COMMITTEE

Annual Report of the Portfolio Committee on Housing, having been put to the Committee, was adopted by the Committee on 9 February, 2005.

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Control Committee Secretary: Ms (Ntuthu) NP Nonkelela

Period from 1 June, 2002 to date.

Committee Secretary: Ms (Mkoti) NM Ntuli .

Period from 1 November, 2003 to date.

Committee Assistant: Mr S Makeleni

Period from 1 May, 2001 to date.

Secretary to Chairperson: Ms E Scholtz

Period from 1 August, 1998 to date.

Researcher (Research Unit): Mr W Manona

Period from 1 January, 2003 to date.