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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report
21 Oct 2016
Documents handed out:
Committee Report on of the Republic of SA’s 2015/16 Annual Report
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted two sets of minutes and a draft report. All the documents are about the Parliament’s ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance & 2017/18 draft budget and annual performance plan
19 Oct 2016
Report of the meeting to follow.
Economic Development
Economic Development Department, Competition Tribunal & IDC on their 2015/16 Annual Reports, with Minister & Deputy
13 Oct 2016
Department of Economic Development Annual Report
Competition Commission of South Africa Annual Report
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited Annual Report
The Minister highlighted that the EDD spent 99.8% of its allocated budget and was able to meet its performance targets from the 23 indicators that were included in ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2016/17 Annual Report: briefing by Auditor-General & Financial Fiscal Commission
12 Oct 2016
Auditor General South Africa said that Economic Development Department (EDD) and its entities, Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal, International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) did not receive unfavourable audit opinions. However, none of the entities had been successful in sustaining the achievement of clean audit outcomes either. All of the entities had, ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Auditor-General of South Africa 2015/16 Audit Report; Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report Analysis: Committee’s Researchers
12 Oct 2016
The Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee about the audit findings of Parliament’s Annual Report for 2015/16, and reported that Parliament had been operating on a deficit of over R110 million, while its vacancy rate was standing at 19.6%, which translated to 336 vacant positions.
The financial statements submitted ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...
Economic Development
ITAC & Competition Commission on 2015/16 Annual Reports
11 Oct 2016
Annual Reports:
International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa [126MB] [email info@pmg.org.za]
Competition Commission of South Africa
ITAC received a record ten applications for tariff increases on primary steel from Arcelor Mittal (AMSA), South Africa’s largest steel producer. The Committee was taken through achievements against targets set for tariff investigations; trade ...
Economic Development
Steel Industry: inputs from ITAC, Competition Commission & Industrial Development Corporation
14 Sep 2016
The Committees was briefed by International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), the Competition Commission and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) on issues related to the steel industry.
ITAC said that the tough global economic conditions since 2008 had resulted in an oversupply of steel in China, and a consequent drop in ...
Economic Development
Minister's briefing on Economic Development Department Jan-Jun 2016 performance
13 Sep 2016
The Minister, Mr Ebrahim Patel, said the 4th quarter was normally challenging as it came after the Christmas period, but the 4th quarter had experienced even rougher economic conditions and mining and agriculture had declined. The year had seen rising employment until the 4th quarter where in three months 355 ...
Economic Development
South Africa’s socio-economic issues: OECD briefing; International Labour Organisation on its work
6 Sep 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) briefed the Committee on the overarching priorities for strong, sustainable and inclusive growth in South Africa. They identified key problem areas in the South African economy and recommended a focus on policy implementation of the objectives in the National Development Plan, the ...