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Higher Education, Science and Innovation
University Funding & 2015 MTBPS: hearing with DHET & Council on Higher Education, with Minister
4 Nov 2015
A joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations and the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education heard submissions from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Council on Higher Education (CHE) on the funding of the higher education sector and the post-school education and training ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
3 Nov 2015
The Committee continued with the deliberation on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A UDM MP wanted to know how it was possible to make reference to sections 12 and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): Public Service Commission briefing
2 Nov 2015
The Public Service Commission (PSC) proposed a strategy for improving management practices in the public service comprising of three elements: professionalising the public service, transforming corporate support practices to focus on outcomes as well as compliance, and improving performance management and accountability structures.
It had identified the country's open system ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefing
28 Oct 2015
The meeting was for the presentation by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The MTBPS was formulated against the backdrop of an economy that was vulnerable to negative domestic and external factors. Low, fragile growth was making it difficult to tackle ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: clauses 12 to 24 deliberations, with Deputy Minister
27 Oct 2015
The Committee continued with deliberations on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A DA member pointed out that the factors that had been highlighted in clause 12(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Minister of Finance briefing
22 Oct 2015
The Minister of Finance and a delegation from the National Treasury met with a joint committee comprising the Standing Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Appropriations. The National Treasury presented the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: Chapters 1-3 proposed amendments, with Deputy Minister
20 Oct 2015
The Committee considered the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (the A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill.
An ANC member suggested that “subject to just and equitable compensation” in the long title of the Bill should be ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Financial and Fiscal Commission submission on 2016/17 Division of Revenue Bill
23 Sep 2015
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) presented its submissions on the 2016/2017 Division of Revenue. The main theme was that the current infrastructure and infrastructure spend was presently inadequate to meet the needs of growth, poverty and inequality. Infrastructure could leverage growth and economic development but South Africa remained beset ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
The Jobs Fund: Finance Deputy Minister & National Treasury progress report
22 Sep 2015
National Treasury gave the Committee a progress report on the activities of the Jobs Fund. It gave a brief overview on the level of unemployment in the country and how it was being addressed. It then spoke to the mandate of the Fund and its objectives, how disbursement was managed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Human Settlements 1st Quarter 2015/2016 performance: hearings
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Human Settlement (DHS) gave the Standing Committee on Appropriations details of its expenditure and performance against its targets for 2014/15 and for the first quarter of the current financial year.
The allocation for the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDGs) for the previous year had been R17 billion. ...