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Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15–2016]: public hearings
11 Nov 2016
The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations conducted public hearings on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The purpose of the Bill was to amend the Division of Revenue Act passed by Parliament in 2016.
The Rural Health Advocacy Project, in its submission, made a recommendation that the government needed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]: National Treasury briefing
10 Nov 2016
The National Treasury briefed the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill.
On provincial allocations, it was reported that R275.7 million would be rolled over from allocations made in 2015/16 on the provincial roads maintenance grant for KwaZulu-Natal. These funds had not been transferred ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2016 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Human Sciences Research Council briefing
9 Nov 2016
The Committee was addressed by the Human Science Research Council on its observations regarding the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
Debt levels had roughly doubled over the last eight years. The biggest item in spending by government had been the repayment of debt. The reason for that had being the halving ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee report on expenditure patterns: discussion; Committee Programme
25 Oct 2016
The consideration and adoption of the Committee report on expenditure patterns was postponed. There had to be further recommendations from Members, and engagement with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).
Discussion of the Committee programme centered on the proposed study tour. Agreement was reached that the tour had to be undertaken ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pre-Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) briefing by Parliamentary Budget Office
19 Oct 2016
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) presented its pre-Medium Term Policy Statement (MTBPS) analysis to the four committees. The presentation was to provide members with the macroeconomic environment informing the 2016 MTBPS and current progress made with the implementation of the 2016/17 budget. The presentation also gave members preliminary results for ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
PRASA on its performance: hearing
19 Oct 2016
The Committee received a full briefing from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) on its financial and non-financial performance. It was noted frankly that PRASA continued to experience challenges in the efficiency of providing affordable public transport as PRASA had an ageing rolling stock and infrastructure. It firstly ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
South African Post Office 1 Quarter 2016 performance: hearing
12 Oct 2016
The South African Post Office (SAPO) Chief Executive Officer reported that:
- The analysis of revenue in this period showed stability despite prolonged delay in release of funds. This delay caused 79% overall revenue performance
- Positive cash flows were not generated from operations and under-performance was observed in the ...
Energy
Nuclear New Build: briefing by Minister and Department of Energy
11 Oct 2016
The meeting intended to have three presentations. Due to time constraints, only the first presentation by the Department of Energy (DOE) was heard.
The DOE briefing looked at the historic background and gave an update on plans for the nuclear new build programme. It explain the following recommendations that the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
16 Sep 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and the first quarter of 2016/17.
The spending for the 2015/16 financial year had amounted to R1.3 billion, which was 92.5% of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
15 Sep 2016
Documents Missing: The Jobs Fund: Jobs Fund Portfolio Performance
The Committee met with National Treasury to be briefed on its 2015/16 fourth quarter performance, 2016/17 first quarter performance and the Jobs Fund.
Some of the main contributors to over/under spending in the fourth quarter included:
-payment of capital assets for the ...