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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Higher Education funding: Parliamentary Budget Office research findings
18 Oct 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on their Analysis of the Cost of Higher Education in South Africa.
The PBO delegation gave their findings on the issue facing South Africa’s higher education system, noting that the system is heavily weighted, both educationally and ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Agrément SA on its 2015/16 Annual Report; Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
18 Oct 2016
Annual Reports 2015/16
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit [All Committee Reports available Tabled Committee Reports once published]
Agrément South Africa briefed the Committee on its Annual Report 2015/2016. Pertaining to technical outputs of certificates approved, Agrément South Africa received 28 applications in 2015/2016 year. 22 evaluation offers were made ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
South African Post Office 1 Quarter 2016 performance: hearing
12 Oct 2016
The South African Post Office (SAPO) Chief Executive Officer reported that:
- The analysis of revenue in this period showed stability despite prolonged delay in release of funds. This delay caused 79% overall revenue performance
- Positive cash flows were not generated from operations and under-performance was observed in the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Monitoring of performance and expenditure on outcomes of National Development Plan: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
12 Oct 2016
The Committee met with the Parliamentary Budgetary Office to be briefed on its monitoring on performance and expenditure on the outcomes of the National Development Plan.
Government has already started the process of aligning the long term plans of departments with the NDP and to identify areas where policy change ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Mpumalanga Oversight visit
11 Oct 2016
Report of the meeting to follow.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
16 Sep 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and the first quarter of 2016/17.
The spending for the 2015/16 financial year had amounted to R1.3 billion, which was 92.5% of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
15 Sep 2016
Documents Missing: The Jobs Fund: Jobs Fund Portfolio Performance
The Committee met with National Treasury to be briefed on its 2015/16 fourth quarter performance, 2016/17 first quarter performance and the Jobs Fund.
Some of the main contributors to over/under spending in the fourth quarter included:
-payment of capital assets for the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing with the Deputy Minister
14 Sep 2016
The Department of Health reported on Q4 2015/16 spending percentages for its programmes: Comprehensive HIV/AIDS grant spending 99.1%, National Health Insurance (NHI) 90.2%, Health Prof Training and Dev Grant (HPTDG) 100%, National Tertiary Services Grant (NTSG) 99.6% and HIV/AIDS 99.9%, Conditional grants (CG) 99.1%, Indirect grants 95.3%, Goods and services ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Water and Sanitation on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance
14 Sep 2016
The Department focused on the key aspect of the variances between the projections and actual expenditure, as well as the reasons for under-spending the budget. The variances included money not transferred to other institutions due to outstanding documents; unfilled vacant posts; delays in procurement of services and contractors; late receipt ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Basic Education on its Jan-June 2016 performance, with Deputy Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) reported that past issues on which progress had been made included the delivery of school workbooks, as in recent years delivery had been almost 100%. 55 million schoolbooks had been distributed to 24 000 schools. The number of people who had benefited from mass literacy ...