Benedicta Maria Van Minnen

Committee appearances

• Plans to resolve the impasse between ESKOM and defaulting municipalities: input by COGTA, SALGA & National Treasury 3 Dec 2019

  Ms B Van Minnen (DA) said that the only remaining explanation for non-payment was political. Eskom’s continued supply to non-paying municipalities was throwing good money after bad. Why was a firmer line not being taken? What was driving Eskom to continue supplying non-paying customers?

• Department of Correctional Services 2018/2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: Follow-up hearing 27 Nov 2019

  Ms B Van Minnen (DA) was concerned that investigations that took a long time might cost many times more than the amount that could be recovered. This was a double waste of money. There seemed to be no will to prosecute these matters.

• SCOPA Review of 2018-2019 Financial Statements, Deviations, Expansions, Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure 26 Nov 2019

  Ms B Van Minnen (DA) asked how long the current board members had been in their current positions. What had the turnover been in the last few years?

• Review of PRASA 2018/2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure 20 Nov 2019

  Ms B van Minnen (DA) expressed concern that the entity had no permanent leadership for several years. It appeared to have not taken any corporate responsibility and only achieved 26% of its goals for the year. The entity’s system had collapsed and the delegation did not seem prepared to ...

• DCS 2018-2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: SCOPA review 19 Nov 2019

  Ms B Van Minnen (DA) said that prescription was a mechanism involved in debt collection. How was it related to disciplinary action?

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Plenary appearances

• - VOTE 24 6 Nov 2019

  House Chair, this is the department responsible for the hot topic of land reform in South Africa. It has a mandate of creating and maintaining an equitable and sustainable land dispensation. It must act as a catalyst in rural development to ensure sustainable rural livelihoods, decent work and continued social ...

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