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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Military Veterans, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure
15 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) questioned the new Acting Director General (DG) on the high levels of irregular expenditure within the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) which was noted to be the “worst performing department in terms of irregular expenditure” as 21.5% of the DMV budget spending was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education & SITA Annual Reports 2015/16: hearing, with Minister of Education
9 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), with the objective of ensuring that managers did not tolerate this type of expenditure, and would hold officials ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National and Provincial Departments 2015/16 audit outcomes: briefing by Auditor-General
2 Nov 2016
The Auditor-General presented key challenges that surfaced during the audits. He put emphasis on the implementation of proper and sound internal controls, and that more attention needs to be paid into supply chain and financial management across government departments and entities. The lack of sound internal controls gave rise to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Outstanding 2016 Annual Reports: Departments' reasons for non-submission
1 Nov 2016
The Committee met to discuss the position of the government entities that had not submitted their Annual Reports to Parliament as required. Invitations to appear before SCOPA had been sent to four departments and two entities. The Department of Environmental Affairs was absent, informing the Committee that it was still ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team & South African Revenue Service: hearing
14 Sep 2016
The Anti Corruption Task Team (ACTT) provided a status report on its operations in fighting corruption and cases of fraud involving government departments while leaving out information on state owned entities (SOEs). Since its inception in October 2010, the total number of cases dealt with is 189 and the number ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Unauthorised expenditure of Department of Sports and Recreation & Department of Public Service and Administration: National Treasury briefing
7 Sep 2016
The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) said that it had gone over budget by R8.8m because two advisory bodies, comprising a total of nine members, had been established, and because the model of operation of the advisory bodies had involved extensive travel between Cape Town and Pretoria. When ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Chief Procurement Officer quarterly briefing
6 Sep 2016
The meeting got off to an uncertain start when the Committee was informed that the Chief Procurement Officer would not be attending, as he had gone to a pre-planned information communication technology (ICT) statutory tour to Europe. Members were particularly upset that he had failed to communicate this to the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express 2014/15 audit: hearing with Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises
13 Apr 2016
The hearing on the 2014/15 audit by the Auditor-General on South African Express (SAX) raised numerous questions around the finances of the entity. The issues raised by MPs included the following:
- Poor record keeping procedures and unavailability of documents required by the AG during the audit process,
- The ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
South African Post Office: hearing with Minister
12 Apr 2016
The Post Office received a grilling by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts when it admitted that management systems had collapsed and resulted in mismanagement, late Annual Reports and dire financial problems
The 2014/15 Annual Report which reflected more than R1 billion in losses raised the possibility that the Post ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services: hearing with Minister of Justice and Correctional Services (continued)
15 Mar 2016
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services commented on a matter that the National Treasury wanted raised in the meeting, concerning an investigation into a tender issued by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). The Minister objected that this could imply that Treasury was setting itself up as a tender ...