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24 May 2013
                       
 
 
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24 May 2013
 
 
Talent Management
REAL ECONOMY: IMMIGRATION
The 2013 departmental Budget-Vote cycle has more or less come and gone, with South Africa’s Cabinet Ministers having outlined their various programmes and spending priorities for the current...
Updated 7 hours ago
 
 
23 May 2013
 
DA: Statement by David Maynier MP, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, on the Guptagate report being a ‘whitewash’, which reinforces the need for an independent investigation (23/05/2013)
STATEMENT
The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation...
 
 
ID cards roll-out in July
HOME AFFAIRS
Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. "We will begin with the issuing of the cards to new...
 
 
22 May 2013
 
Gupta report released as opposition lambasts Zuma
GUPTAGATE
Government released the full report on the Gupta scandal on Wednesday amid a parliamentary debate in which the opposition blamed the president personally for the incident, saying he should pay for...
 
 
17 May 2013
 
Motshekga has one month to set up school norms – EE
NORMS & STANDARDS IN EDUCATION
Equal Education (EE) is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure, it said on Friday. "The one-month extension will...
 
 
Smart ID cards to improve national security
SMART ID
Cabinet has welcomed the announcement by the Department of Home Affairs to pilot the smart ID card, which is expected to be rolled out in the second quarter of this financial year. Acting Cabinet...
 
 
09 May 2013
 
Smart card ID here in eight years
HOME AFFAIRS
It would take up to eight years to issue all South Africans with so-called smart card identity documents, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. The department believed once the...
 
 
08 Apr 2013
 
SA: Statement by Equal Education, civil rights movement, makes submission on the 2013 draft regulations relating to minimum uniform norms and standards for public school infrastructure (08/04/2013)
STATEMENT
On Sunday 31 March 2013, Equal Education (EE) submitted its written comment on the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) draft regulations on minimum norms and standards for school...
 
 
02 Apr 2013
 
SA: Statement by the Department of Home Affairs, on volume of travellers at ports of entry during Easter weekend (02/04/2013)
STATEMENT
Over half a million travellers were processed in and out of South Africa, without any glitches, at all national ports of entry, by the Home Affairs Department’s Immigration services during the...
 
 
04 Mar 2013
 
SA: Statement by Department of Home Affairs, provides documentation for the burial of Emidio Marcia (04/03/2013)
STATEMENT
The Home Affairs department will, as part of the government contribution, provide the family of Emidio Marcia, the Mozambican taxi driver, who died in police custody early this week, with the...
 
 
26 Feb 2013
 
DA: Statement by Manny DeFreitas, DA Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, Minister Pandor confirms continued maladministration and contravention of the Constitution (26/02/2013)
STATEMENT
The PP found that the DHA’s failure to resolve this matter amounted to maladministration and a contravention of the Constitution. Minister Dlamini Zuma failed to respond to the PP. The PP had...
 
 
21 Feb 2013
 
SA: Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu: Address by the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, on the ccasion of the inaugural lecture of the National Council of Provinces, University of the Western Cape, Belville (20/02/2013)
SPEECH
The lecture gives us an opportunity to talk about the implementation of our democracy project, focusing on the role of Parliament in general and that of the NCOP in particular. Our Constitution...
 
 
04 Feb 2013
 
Declare education an essential service – ANC
EDUCATION
The African National Congress (ANC) and government will make sure education is declared an essential service, party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. "The [ANC] lekgotla agreed that...
 
 
01 Feb 2013
 
 
 
Daily podcast – February 1, 2013.
PODCAST
Civil society group Corruption Watch (or CW) said at a briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday that the corruption observed in the South African public schooling system was the most ‘disturbing’...
 
 
31 Jan 2013
 
Speedy, secure birth certificates soon, says Pandor
BIRTH CERTIFICATES
South Africa will soon issue only unabridged birth certificates, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said in Pretoria on Thursday. The documents, which were sometimes referred to as "full birth...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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