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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team & South African Revenue Service: hearing
14 Sep 2016
The Anti Corruption Task Team (ACTT) provided a status report on its operations in fighting corruption and cases of fraud involving government departments while leaving out information on state owned entities (SOEs). Since its inception in October 2010, the total number of cases dealt with is 189 and the number ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Unauthorised expenditure of Department of Sports and Recreation & Department of Public Service and Administration: National Treasury briefing
7 Sep 2016
The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) said that it had gone over budget by R8.8m because two advisory bodies, comprising a total of nine members, had been established, and because the model of operation of the advisory bodies had involved extensive travel between Cape Town and Pretoria. When ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Chief Procurement Officer quarterly briefing
6 Sep 2016
The meeting got off to an uncertain start when the Committee was informed that the Chief Procurement Officer would not be attending, as he had gone to a pre-planned information communication technology (ICT) statutory tour to Europe. Members were particularly upset that he had failed to communicate this to the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express 2014/15 audit: hearing with Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises
13 Apr 2016
The hearing on the 2014/15 audit by the Auditor-General on South African Express (SAX) raised numerous questions around the finances of the entity. The issues raised by MPs included the following:
- Poor record keeping procedures and unavailability of documents required by the AG during the audit process,
- The ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services: hearing with Minister of Justice and Correctional Services (continued)
15 Mar 2016
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services commented on a matter that the National Treasury wanted raised in the meeting, concerning an investigation into a tender issued by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). The Minister objected that this could imply that Treasury was setting itself up as a tender ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Military Veterans 2014/15 Annual Report: hearing with Deputy Minister
9 Mar 2016
Members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, from both sides of the House, launched a vigorous and forthright interrogation of the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) over its poor performance during the past year. The Deputy Minister, the Acting Director General, the Audit Committee and the turnaround team all ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
South African Post Office 2014/15 Annual Report: hearing
8 Mar 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) sent senior managers of the troubled SA Post Office (SAPO) packing after the board failed to show up at a meeting in Parliament.
Angry SCOPA members told SAPO chief executive Mark Barnes and non-executive director Dawn Marole that the Public Finance Management Act ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Broadcasting Amendment Bill [B39-2015]: Department of Communications briefing
8 Mar 2016
The Committee received a briefing on the Broadcasting Amendment Bill from the Department of Communications. The Bill will lead to a reduction in the number of non-executive directors in the Board, from twelve to nine, in order to strengthen the Board and also to streamline its operation. These changes were ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Compensation Fund on its 2014/15 Annual Report: hearing
2 Mar 2016
The management of the Compensation Fund and the Department of Labour (DOL) came under intense scrutiny when the Fund’s annual report was presented its 2014/15 to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
The first issue raised concerned the suspension from April last year of the Fund’s chief financial officer (CFO) ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governance on 2015/16 3rd & 4th Quarter performance; Budget Vote 3 & Annual Performance Plan: briefing, with Minister present
1 Mar 2016
The Minister and officials from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) presented the Department’s performance report for the 2014/15 financial year and its annual performance plan for 2016/17.
The Department achieved a considerable percentage of its targets (70%), with a substantial portion still in progress (27%). Some ...