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Finance Standing Committee
Pre-Budget 2019: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
19 Feb 2019
The Finance and Appropriations Committees met with jointly with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for a pre-Budget briefing.
The PBO pointed out that during the State of the Nation Address; the President highlighted the strategic direction for the budget in terms of linking priorities for 2019/20 with the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations & expansions in 2018/19 Quarter 2 & 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
13 Feb 2019
The highlighted that entities must only deviate from inviting competitive bids in cases of emergency and sole supplier status. An emergency procurement may occur when there is a serious and unexpected situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment which calls an agency to action and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Jobs Fund Update; Committee Annual Report
12 Feb 2019
The Committee met with National Treasury for a briefing on quarter three spending outcomes of government departments and public entities for 2018/19, and an update on the Jobs Fund.
National Treasury said major contributors to underspending for the first nine months of 2018/19 were the following departments: Cooperative Governance and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on 2018 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill & Special Appropriation Bill
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider and adopt the draft reports on the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement; the Adjustments Appropriations Bill B35-2018; and the Special Appropriations Bill B36-2018.
Members considered the draft 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), and apart from corrections to grammar and style, discussed whether ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Bill: Draft Regulations briefing
20 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Auditor-General and his executive team on the Regulations arising from the Public Audit Amendment Act, 2018, Act No. 5 of 2018. The Auditor General explained that the Public Audit Amendment Bill was passed by the Committee in May 2018 and had been ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Threats to Audit teams: SAPS, COGTA, AGSA briefing; AGSA Strategic Plan
9 Nov 2018
Political Leadership Necessary to Curb Threats of Violence Against Auditors
Minister Mkhize Condemns Threats Against Auditor-General of South Africa Staff
Public Audit Amendment Bill
The Standing Committee on the Auditor-General met to discuss the threats, intimidation and attacks on staff from the Office of the Auditor General South Africa together ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: Treasury briefing
8 Nov 2018
National Treasury said that when it came to the division of revenue in the MTBS, growth in the provincial and local government allocations had been above inflation and slightly higher than the growth in national allocations. Additional funds had been made available to provinces to extend the provision of free ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: Human Sciences Research Council briefing
7 Nov 2018
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on their overall assessment of the 2018 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It highlighted that the spending priorities included reducing poverty and inequality, and increasing employment and inclusive growth. It stressed the need for an improvement in spending efficiency, government capacity ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: Public Service Commission input
6 Nov 2018
The Public Service Commission observed that a detailed and integrated planning across departments was needed for economic recovery. Stronger oversight of state-owned entities (SoEs) was needed. There had to be better support systems for underperforming departments, through better alignment between planning and performance management systems. Informed decisions had to be ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: SALGA input
31 Oct 2018
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) briefed the Committee on their response to the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It focused on the macro economic climate and said that the MTBPS had three key priorities.
The first one was implementing the economic stimulus and recovery plan launched ...