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Tourism Budget Review and Recommendations Report
29 Oct 2014
The Committee considered its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). In the interest of time the Committee Content Advisor briefly took the Committee through the Report, with greater emphasis being placed on deliberations by Members on the recommendations contained in the Report. Overall there seemed to be agreement amongst ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Independent Development Trust on its 2013/14 Annual Report
28 Oct 2014
The Independent Development Trust (IDT) remains in a precarious financial position. This emerged when it was presenting its annual report for the year under review to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works. It reported that there had been supplementary funding of R200 million from the National Treasury for the financial ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism & SA Tourism on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
24 Oct 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Report 2013/14.
Minister Derek Hanekom pointed out that SA’s international tourist figures had increased by 4.7% and almost reached the 10 million mark in 2013 despite the slow economic recovery. The NDT was the custodian of the National Tourism ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Public Works Budget Review and Recommendations Report
23 Oct 2014
The Chairperson led Members of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works through a page-by-page review of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The only major issues related to the suggestion to substitute “eliminate corruption” for “address corruption,” and the timeframe for the presentation of financial reports. Members reached agreement ...
Tourism
Audit outcomes of Department of Tourism: AGSA briefing; FFC on its recommendations related to tourism; 3rd Term Committee Programme
17 Oct 2014
The Auditor General SA briefed the Committee on the 2013/14 audit outcomes of the National Department of Tourism (NDT). In 2013/14 the NDT had obtained a clean audit outcome with no findings on predetermined objectives and compliance. SA Tourism had received an unqualified audit outcome with findings on predetermined objectives ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Auditor-General of South Africa on audit outcomes of Department of Public Works
14 Oct 2014
The Office of the Auditor General (AGSA) and the Department of Public Works provided an overview of the audit outcomes and other findings in respect of the Department for the 2013/14 financial year.
AGSA reported that the Department had received an unqualified audit for the period under review. In the ...
Tourism
National Heritage, Cultural & Rural Tourism Strategies: briefing by National Department of Tourism
19 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its National Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy, as well as its National Rural Tourism Strategy. The focus of the NDT at present was to ensure that the eight world heritage sites found in SA remained on the United Nations Educational, Scientific ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on 1st Quarter Performance for 2014/15
16 Sep 2014
The Department of Public Works (DPW) said this was the first time they had presented a quarterly report after a substantial outcome from their stabilisation phase. A report on the turnaround had been presented to Cabinet and endorsed. It was seven-year turnaround plan. For the first part of their stabilisation ...
Tourism
Social Responsibility Implementation programme: Department of Tourism on briefing
12 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Social Responsibility Implementation programme. At the outset of the meeting members were provided with a broad overview. The Committee was informed that it was common practise for upfront payments to be made to project implementers on Expanded Public Works Programme ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on Phase Three of Expanded Public Works Programme, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The presentation described the aims and objectives of the third phase of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), which was designed to address the issues of unemployment and poverty, specifically among women and young people. It sought to train millions of unemployed people across different sectors through various Public Employment ...