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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Public Service Commission briefing
4 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 04 May 2020
The Public Service Commission (PSC) briefed the Committee on the 2020 Appropriation Bill, and highlighted that the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic had provided lessons on the agility of the government and public administration as a whole. It proposed that Parliament ...
Finance Standing Committee
COVID-19 government intervention to stimulate economy; with Ministry
30 Apr 2020
Youtube Video: JM: Select and SC on Finance, SC on Appropriations & SC on Public Accounts, 30 April 2020
COVID-19: Regulations and Guidelines
Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002
Schedule of Services to be phased in as per COVID-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
President Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa's response to Coronavirus ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Bill [B3-2020]
17 Mar 2020
The Committee met to consider and adopt the Committee”s draft report on the Division of Revenue Bill [B3-2020]. A motion on the desirability of the bill was read and adopted.
Members questioned whether the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) should not also be mentioned as having been consulted, and whether they ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: public hearings
13 Mar 2020
The Committee held public hearings on the Division of Revenue Bill, and received presentations from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum, the Amandla.mobi Campaigner Fellowship and the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).
SALGA said the issue that most needed attention was the fact that the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B3-20]: briefing
12 Mar 2020
In its briefing on the Division of Revenue Bill, National Treasury said that the country’s population had increased by 1 million from 2018 to 2019 bringing it to about 58.8 million. There were 49.1 million people dependent on public healthcare and 13 million learners in schools with 9 million receiving ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Departments 2019/20 Quarter 3 Expenditure Performance: Committee Staff Analysis
11 Mar 2020
Members were briefed by the Committee Staff on the third quarter expenditure performance of national government departments. The research report recommended that four poorly performing departments be called to appear at committee hearings because of significant underspending of projected expenditure. These were the departments of Human Settlements; Agriculture, Forestry and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2020 Budget (Expenditure and Division of Revenue): FFC briefing
4 Mar 2020
2020 Budget Speech
Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), briefed the Committee on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals. It said there had been a contraction in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy, as well as a contraction in fixed asset formation ...
Finance Standing Committee
2020 Budget: Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission briefings
3 Mar 2020
Parliament’s finance and appropriations committees from both houses met jointly to be briefed on the 2020 Budget by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC).
The PBO expressed the view that the macroeconomic approach of the budget was too narrowly focused on ...
Finance Standing Committee
2020 Budget: Treasury briefing; with Minister & Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2020
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2020 Budget Speech
2019 MTBPS Speech
Parliament’s finance and appropriations committees from both houses met jointly with the Minister of Finance and senior National Treasury officials to discuss the 2020 Budget. The Minister had tabled his budget proposals the previous day.
Members were told that very low ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Pre-2020 budget workshop with National Treasury on budget instruments to be tabled by Minister of Finance
25 Feb 2020
The Committee and National Treasury officials held a pre-2020 budget workshop on the budget instruments to be tabled by the Minister of Finance the following day. The workshop covered the documents tabled by the Minister, particularly the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the Appropriation Bill.
Treasury said any proposed ...