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Standing Committee on Appropriations
DPME on department progress with National Development Plan alignment & MTSF implementation
19 Apr 2016
Of 43 national departments, 30 were found to be aligned to the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF). Of the 30, 11 were fully aligned and 19 partially aligned. A summary of progress toward MTSF 2014-2019 targets per outcome was presented in graph form. There was an overview of progress related ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Auditor General South Africa on the 2014/15 sector outcomes
15 Apr 2016
The Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) toilets which the Department of Human Settlements had built were found to have so many structural defects that one had to hold on to the seat in order not to fall off, and in one instance, half a plastic ginger beer bottle had been passed ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Committee Report on Auditor General South Africa Strategic Plan
13 Apr 2016
The Committee met briefly to adopt Draft Minutes and the Committee’s report on the AG’s Strategic and Budget Plan.
Amendments to the Committee report were made under ‘Background and Introduction’ because a section of the paragraph read as if the Committee had tabled a report to both the National Assembly ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Progress with its efficiency drives: Office of the Chief Procurement Officer briefing
13 Apr 2016
Members again lamented the late submission of the presentation document, which meant they were unable to fact check or facilitate public participation on the information. National Treasury apologised and the Committee resolved to take the matter up with the Director General of National Treasury.
The Office of the Chief Procurement ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Committee Reports on AGSA Annual Report, AGSA Strategic Plan and Oversight Visit to Gauteng
16 Mar 2016
Documents Handed Out:
Committee Minutes: 6 November 2015
Committee Report: Oversight Visit Report to Gauteng
Committee Report on the AGSA 2014/15 Annual Report
Committee Report on the AGSA Strategic Plan and Budget 2014 - 2019
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee met to adopt ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: adoption of Committee Report
15 Mar 2016
The Committee considered and adopted its Report on the Division of Revenue Bill.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: public hearings
11 Mar 2016
At the outset, the Chairperson allowed time for the Democratic Alliance to air its views on the process that the Committee was following. The DA had raised issues in a previous meeting that it did not believe that the presentations were in line with either the Constitution or the Parliamentary ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Budget: Public hearings
2 Mar 2016
The joint sitting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance heard submissions from six entities on the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill. The entities were the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Witwatersrand University’s School of Economics and Business Science, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2016 Division of Revenue Bill: South African Local Government Association comments & input from National Treasury
2 Mar 2016
The meeting began with deliberations about the legality of the meeting itself. Members of the DA, including Shadow Minister of Finance, Mr D Maynier (who was sitting in on the meeting), argued that the meeting was inconsistent with the Constitution as it was out of place in terms of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Minister of Finance on the 2016 Budget
25 Feb 2016
In the presence of the Minister of Finance, the Director General of National Treasury briefed the Committee on the 2016 Budget and the Minister answered questions. Taking the Committee through the presentation, the DG focused on the reasons for tough decisions and why South African needed to act pre-emptively. The ...