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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS 2018/19 deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing
17 Mar 2020
The South African Police Service (SAPS) appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to deal with deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at SAPS in 2018/19. An irregularity expenditure of R20.7 million had been reported but that had escalated to R1.2 billion during the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAA outstanding matters: update, with Minister
19 Feb 2020
Public Finance Management Act
06 December 2019 - SAA business rescue process
05 December 2019 - SAA to enter into business rescue
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) held a joint meeting with the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises to receive an update on the state of affairs at ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
ESKOM Update on SCOPA recommendations following oversight visit, with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2020
The purpose of the meeting was for Eskom to address the Report of the Standing Committee on Public ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
COGTA plans to resolve municipal debt to Eskom; with Deputy Ministers
3 Dec 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on its plans to resolve the problem of municipal debt to Eskom. Representatives of Eskom, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and National Treasury were in attendance. The presentation noted that not just municipalities but ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services 2018/2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: Follow-up hearing
27 Nov 2019
The Committee continued its review of the registers of fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure of the Department of Correctional Services. It discussed the Department’s capacity challenges, and then the Committee probed several individual cases of fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and continued to probe particular cases in the register of irregular ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
UIF & Compensation Fund: deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Committee met with the Compensation Fund and the Unemployment Insurance Fund to review their irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The Minister of Employment and Labour was present. The engagement with the Compensation Fund was delayed by confusion around documents - a revised version of the Fund’s register of irregular ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA 2018/19 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure, with Minister & Deputy Minister
20 Nov 2019
PFMA
Proclamation: SIU investigation into PRASA
PRASA 2018/19 Annual Report
PRASA 2017/18 Annual Report
PRASA 2016/17 Annual Report
Summary
The Committee held a hearing with Prasa to review the entity’s 2018/19 financial statements. The Minister of Transport, as well as his Deputy, was in attendance.
The entity had regressed from ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services 2018/2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure
19 Nov 2019
In a long and sometimes tense discussion, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts reviewed the register of irregular expenditure of the Department of Correctional Services. Representatives of the Special Investigations Unit, National Treasury and the Auditor-General of South Africa were also present. Out of 875 cases of irregular expenditure amounting ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Non-Tabling of 2018/19 Annual Reports: SAA & Department of Water and Sanitation, with Deputy Ministers
13 Nov 2019
Video: SAA Engagement with SCOPA
Video: DWS Engagement with SCOPA
The standing committee on public accounts was briefed by South African Airways and the Department of Water and Sanitation on the non-tabling of the Annual Reports for 2018/19.
The Committee was briefed on the non-tabling of 2018/19 Annual ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Non-Tabling of 2018/19 Annual Reports: South African Express, Alexkor & NSFAS; with Ministers
30 Oct 2019
The Committee was briefed on the non-tabling of Annual Reports from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), South African Express and Alexkor. The Minister had written to the Speaker of the National Assembly saying that the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) would not meet the submission date of ...