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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Human Sciences Research Council briefing; COVID-19 Update
6 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 6 May 2020
“People will not be killed by COVID, but they will be killed by hunger”. This assertion by an African woman in the North West province was among 5 000 written responses the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) had received in a survey which ...
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 ...
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
National Departments Quarter 3 performance: DPME briefing
10 Mar 2020
A key issue raised was that the Committee needs to make an assessment of how the budget translates into service delivery, determine what value government receives, and determine what the impact of government spending on the budget’s developmental objectives are. The Department’s presentation lacked necessary information and only spoke to ...
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 ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Contract Deviations & Expansions 2019/20 Quarter 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
19 Feb 2020
The Standing Committee considers the deviations and expansions for the 2019/20 financial year. The report consists of all the deviations and expansions which have either been supported, not supported, conditionally supported or noted by the National Treasury. The acting Chief Procurement Officer, National Treasury explained the concepts and outlined the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 3 Spending Challenges: Treasury report
18 Feb 2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on 2019/20 Quarter 3 Spending Outcomes for departments. It spoke about expenditure reporting by public entities and the challenges in verifying this.
The overall spending for the Quarter 3 of 2019/20 shows spending of R683 billion, an underspending of R14.4 billion. The largest deviation was ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Special Appropriation Bill [B10-2019]: Department of Public Enterprises and Eskom briefings; with Minister
10 Sep 2019
The Minister said Eskom was a vital utility and crucial to the economy. It had been the target of state capture, and damage had been done to it. There had now been a two year period of recovery in the areas of governance, finance and operations, but the company was ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Institutions Supporting Democracy office-bearers: procedure for removal; Subcommittee Report on Physical removal of Members from Chamber; Sub Judice Rule review
10 Sep 2019
The Committee met to discuss a number of rule amendments but, primarily, to determine a procedure for the removal of office-bearers of Institutions Supporting Democracy.
The Committee determined that a process to remove an office-bearer should not be entered into lightly and it could not be because ...