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Finance Standing Committee
2020 Supplementary Budget: Minister of Finance briefing
25 Jun 2020
Video: JM: SC on Appropriations, SC on Finance, SC on Appropriations & SC on Finance, 25 June 2020
2020 Supplementary Budget Speech, Bills & Key documents
The Finance and Appropriations Committees of both Houses received a virtual briefing by the Minister of Finance and his team from National Treasury on ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on Quarter 4 Expenditure & SOC performance
17 Jun 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations 17:06:2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the 2019/20 fourth quarter spending outcomes for departments, the third quarter expenditure of public entities, and the performance of State-Owned Companies.
Treasury presented some of the serious challenges it is facing with State-Owned Companies:
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill [B4-2020]: Committee Report
9 Jun 2020
The Standing Committee on Appropriations met to consider and adopt three items on its agenda:
a motion of desirability; the Committee’s Report on the Appropriations Bill [B4-2020]; and the minutes of three previous Committee meetings. The Bill which seeks to appropriate money from the National Revenue Fund ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill [B4-2020]: National Treasury briefing; with Deputy Minister
3 Jun 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations and Select Committee on Appropriations 3June 2020
The Committee received its final briefing from the National Treasury on the 2020 Appropriation Bill. Treasury stated that the 2020 Appropriation Bill would provide the legal basis of expenditure as envisaged in the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom, SAA, SA Express financial challenges; with Finance & Public Enterprises Deputy Ministers
27 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 27 May 2020
Statement on discussions at parliament’s appropriations committee on the R5 billion question
The presentation was a joint one by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) and National Treasury. They covered Eskom spending of the 2019/20 special appropriation and conditions, finance and liquidity ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Land Bank financial challenges with National Treasury input
20 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 20 May 2020
Audio: Land Bank financial challenges with National Treasury input
The Standing Committee on Appropriations heard briefings from the Land Bank and National Treasury on the deteriorating financial position of the Land Bank. The Land Bank noted that as there were sensitive discussions ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
11 May 2020
Audio: Appropriation Bill: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) briefed the Committee on the 2020 Appropriation Bill.
The 2020 budget proposes a significant reduction in expenditure growth. This is to reduce the budget deficit and level of debt. More expenditure cuts could severely harm service delivery. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Human Sciences Research Council briefing; COVID-19 Update
6 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 6 May 2020
“People will not be killed by COVID, but they will be killed by hunger”. This assertion by an African woman in the North West province was among 5 000 written responses the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) had received in a survey which ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Public Service Commission briefing
4 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 04 May 2020
The Public Service Commission (PSC) briefed the Committee on the 2020 Appropriation Bill, and highlighted that the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic had provided lessons on the agility of the government and public administration as a whole. It proposed that Parliament ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Departments 2019/20 Quarter 3 Expenditure Performance: Committee Staff Analysis
11 Mar 2020
Members were briefed by the Committee Staff on the third quarter expenditure performance of national government departments. The research report recommended that four poorly performing departments be called to appear at committee hearings because of significant underspending of projected expenditure. These were the departments of Human Settlements; Agriculture, Forestry and ...