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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Outstanding Eskom debt by municipalities: COGTA, SALGA, National Treasury & Eskom briefing
10 Oct 2017
The Department of Cooperative Governance provided an update on the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) efforts on the constitutional, structural and systemic challenges in electricity reticulation.
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) as the representative of municipalities spoke to electricity distribution industry challenges. The reticulation of electricity in SA was ...
Public Enterprises
Task team report-back on meeting with Speaker
23 Aug 2017
This meeting held against the backdrop of the 16 August Committee meeting, in which it had adopted a legal opinion from the Parliamentary Legal Office to conduct an inquiry into governance failures at Eskom, Denel and Transnet (hereafter, State Capture inquiry). The Committee had agreed that a sub-committee should meet ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom inquiry: legal opinion
16 Aug 2017
The Parliamentary Legal Office presented a legal opinion on the proposed process for the Committee to conduct the inquiry into State Owned Enterprises. On 25 July 2017, the Committee had considered the process to be followed in conducting an inquiry into the governance failures at Eskom. The Committee was of ...
Public Enterprises
SACC “Unburdening”; PARI “Betrayal of the promise”; OUTA “No Room to Hide” Report findings; Eskom inquiry prep
25 Jul 2017
Live Stream PC Public Enterprises 25 July
Sikonathi Mantshantsha: The full Dentons report Eskom doesn't want you to see
In preparation for an inquiry into Eskom, the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises invited the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the Organization Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) and the Public Affairs ...
Economic Development
Pharmaceutical Industry: Department of Health & DTI briefing
28 Jun 2017
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) combined with the National Department of Health (DoH) to present an overview of the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on the procurement of anti-retrovirals (ARVs).
The Dti provided a broad profile of the industry and indicated that the pharmaceutical market in South Africa ...
Economic Development
Committee minutes
27 Jun 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted eight sets of minutes. Members voiced concerns about one of the minutes pointing out grammatical and spelling mistakes, and inaccuracies. The Committee minutes 3 May 2017 was accordingly withdrawn.
Public Enterprises
Eskom inquiry: preparations
21 Jun 2017
Documents handed out: Parliament Researcher analysis of Eskom’s Denton Report (not available)
The Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprise met to prepare terms of reference and to discuss the required documentation and lists of witnesses for an enquiry into Eskom, with particular reference to the pension pay out and reappointment of ...
Public Enterprises
South African Express Airways & Safcol turnaround progress
14 Jun 2017
SAFCOL and South African Express Airways (SAX) briefed the portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on their turnaround strategies and the implementation thereof.
Briefing by SAFCOL on progress made in the diversification strategy and turning around the company
According to SAFCOL, the forestry industry has only utilised 1 224 456 ha ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom coal supply agreements with Tegeta: hearing with Minister
30 May 2017
The primary reason for the engagement with was Eskom to get an understanding and clarity about why certain things happened and certain things did not, based on the two reports by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) that Eskom themselves had commissioned to seek clarity on areas of deficiency and to be able to ...
Public Enterprises
Denel Asia; Denel CEO & CFO disciplinary action: update, with Deputy Minister
24 May 2017
Denel met with the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises to brief it on the status of the former executives of the company who were under suspension, and to provide an update on Denel Asia. However, Members emphasised the importance of having the National Treasury and the Minister of Finance present ...