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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: 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 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviation and expansion for national departments and entities for 4th quarter 2018/19 & 1st quarter 2019/2020: National Treasury briefing
29 Oct 2019
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) briefed the Committee on the prevalence of budget deviations and expansions for national government departments during the first six months of 2019, and said the main reasons for applications were poor planning and contract management.
The meeting started with the Committee expressing ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2018/19: briefing by Auditor General
23 Oct 2019
Parliament’s Standing Committees on Public Accounts and Appropriations were told that the key message from the 2018/19 audit outcomes of government departments and state-owned entities (SOEs) was that preventive controls, strong consequence management and an effective monitoring culture were still lacking.
Of the 432 entities that were audited, 100 had ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Task Team on the defaulting municipalities that are owing ESKOM (postponed)
22 Oct 2019
VIDEO: Scopa to hear on the debt owed to Eskom by municipalities
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was meant to be briefed by the Inter-Ministerial Task Team on the defaulting municipalities that owed money to ESKOM. However, the Committee decided that the meeting would not continue because the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
ESKOM oversight report
9 Oct 2019
The Committee met to consider and adopt its report on its oversight visit to the Medupi and Kusile power stations. The Chairperson went through the report with the Members and the draft report was amended substantively.
The Committee had met with ESKOM’s board and management, and had engaged with the ...