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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Public Investment Corporation (PIC) response to information request, with Deputy Minister
21 Nov 2018
SCOPA had resolved to have an engagement with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) because of concerns arising from negative publicity on the PIC’s use of public funds and SCOPA had a duty to prevent mismanagement of public funds. SCOPA had requested information in June 2018 about PIC transactions but six ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) forensic investigation: update, with Deputy Minister
20 Nov 2018
National Treasury had previously briefed SCOPA on the IFMS wrongdoing that implicated companies and Treasury officials. A financial investigation of the IFMS by Deloitte was discredited and rejected by Treasury. Nexus was then contracted to do a forensic investigation and submitted a report in July. Treasury had requested time to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SABC on irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing
14 Nov 2018
VIDEO: SABC appears before SCOPA
In its meeting with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) emphasised that the political leadership within the Department of Communications can and should do more to assist with the crisis at the SABC.
The Committee was told that ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Defaulting municipalities owing Eskom: Inter-Ministerial Task Team; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, together with the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) advisory panel on electricity reticulation and distribution, briefed the Committee on the progress being made in addressing the challenges involved in resolving municipalities’ debt to Eskom, which now amounted to R17 billion. The debt was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SABC irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing; with Deputy Minister
7 Nov 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) – the SIU reported on the investigations on irregular expenditure at the SABC while the SABC was to report on irregular expenditure as well as payable and receivables stated in ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
FDA & Rofin contracts forensic investigation report: hearing with SAPS, with Minister present
31 Oct 2018
The Committee met with the SA Police Service (SAPS), as led by the Minister of Police and National Commissioner of Police, to be briefed on a forensic report on investigation of contracts. The Committee was provided with a 11th hour request from the SAPS to close a portion of the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PMTE CFO appointment at Public Works: hearing; with Minister and Deputy Minister present
23 Oct 2018
The Public Service Commission (PSC) had been requested by SCOPA to investigate the regularity of the employment of, and payments made to, Mr GB Mokgoro at the Department of Public Works (DPW). The terms of reference were to investigate the regularity of the employment of Mr Mokgoro from June 2016 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
CFO appointment investigation; Ministerial house maintenance: PSC & Public Works Minister
17 Oct 2018
SCOPA had to again postpone the matter of the CFO appointment investigation. The Public Service Commission reported that it has concluded the investigation on the appointment of Mr Boitumelo Mokgoro as the CFO of the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) in the Department of Public Works. However, it could not ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2017/18: Auditor General briefing
10 Oct 2018
A joint meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing by the Auditor-General (AG) on the 2017/18 audit outcomes.
A total of 434 government departments and state-owned enterprises were audited. Only 25% received clean audits compared to last year when ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Public Works irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure; Prestige Portfolio report; with Minister and Deputy Minister
29 Aug 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW) presented a report to SCOPA on contracts awarded to four companies where variation orders had been requested, and which the Committee wanted to interrogate. KI Developers had been given a project at a government facility in Cape Town, and a variation had been done ...