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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress in procurement of alternative payment services: hearing
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and Portfolio Committee on Social Development had a joint meeting in which the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) was interrogated on the procurement processes followed by SASSA in acquiring service providers to render a revised grants payment system.
The Committee expressed discontent ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
KPMG hearing
5 Oct 2017
The hearing focused on the work handled by KPMG for the South African Revenue Service (SARS); the general operation of KPMG’s work; transparency within the firm; criteria for billing; debate on the refund of money received to carry out work for SARS; KPMG’s inability to ascertain which findings in the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Special Investigating Unit on cases currently being handled
6 Sep 2017
A total of only twenty-nine final reports have been submitted by the Special Investigating Unit to the Presidency since 2009, however, the SIU expects that another twenty-one final reports will be submitted by the end of 2017/18. These include ten reports concerning national government, three reports concerning provincial government, seven ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations by national departments and entities for 2016/17: Treasury briefing
5 Sep 2017
Documents handed out:
Briefing by the National Treasury on procurement through deviation and expansion (not presented)
Spreadsheets on deviation and expansion for National departments and entities (not presented)
The briefing was not presented, as there was a majority position taken by the ANC and the EFF that the session merited ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing with Minister & Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2017
SA Express was called in for a hearing on its irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure incurred in 2015/16. However, looming over this was the fact that SA Express had an unaudited R234m loss in 2016/17, after a R16.9m profit in 2015/6. According to analysts and experts, SAX still had to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS): hearing with Treasury, with Minister of Finance
29 Aug 2017
Minister Malusi Gigaba said the National Treasury was appearing before the Committee on the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) project aimed at modernising and integrating all human resource and financial management systems across government and it was there to account for the poor financial and operating controls which an internal ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPO on payment of services: SASSA progress report
15 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the South African Social Security Agency (SASS) on progress made thus far with the South African Post Office (SAPO) regarding their intention to take over the payment of social security grants from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) when the 12-month period ended on 31 March ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT): pending cases and Criminal Asset Recovery Account (CARA)
14 Jun 2017
Documents handed out:
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) presentation [wasn’t able to obtain]
The SCOPA meeting with the Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) was a follow up to the previous meeting where Committee members had raised concerns about the sentences meted out to those found guilty of crime and corruption. The Hawks ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Correctional Services Irregular, Fruitless & Wasteful Expenditure & Accruals; with Minister Day 2
14 Jun 2017
The Committee engaged with the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on suspect contracts procured by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). The Committee had received a letter from Integritron Integrated Solutions lawyers about this hearing. According to the letter, there was a 2016 court interdict prohibiting Minister Masutha from ...