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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet contracts, vetting, irregular expenditure, accruals: hearing
28 Nov 2017
Transnet said that vetting was instituted following a 2014 Cabinet decision that all supply chain management (SCM) personnel be vetted. Discussions with organised labour followed on issues of confidentiality and whether all SCM staff had to be vetted. To date only 56 out of 750 staff had supplied all the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in 2016/17
22 Nov 2017
The board of Transnet faced intensive questioning from Members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) when it was called to account for the irregular expenditure figures reported by the Auditor General (AG). It was pointed out that the central figures in the deliberations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IMC on resolution of SASSA/SAPO impasse, with Minister in the Presidency
21 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee briefed a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on resolutions reached towards an agreement between South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) on payment of social grants.
Minister in the Presidency ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Committee briefing on SASSA and SAPO impasse, with Ministers present
8 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Social Development briefed the Joint Meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development. The briefing related to the request by the Committee for a National Treasury review of the SASSA/SAPO procurement process, as well as to attend ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations and expansions of national departments & entities: 2016/17 National Treasury Report
1 Nov 2017
National Treasury briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on its consolidated Report on deviation and expansion for national departments and entities for 2016/17.
Highlights of the brief included the legal framework for supply chain management functions; the principles that must be applied based on Section 217 of the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress in procurement of alternative payment services: hearing
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and Portfolio Committee on Social Development had a joint meeting in which the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) was interrogated on the procurement processes followed by SASSA in acquiring service providers to render a revised grants payment system.
The Committee expressed discontent ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Special Investigating Unit on cases currently being handled
6 Sep 2017
A total of only twenty-nine final reports have been submitted by the Special Investigating Unit to the Presidency since 2009, however, the SIU expects that another twenty-one final reports will be submitted by the end of 2017/18. These include ten reports concerning national government, three reports concerning provincial government, seven ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations by national departments and entities for 2016/17: Treasury briefing
5 Sep 2017
Documents handed out:
Briefing by the National Treasury on procurement through deviation and expansion (not presented)
Spreadsheets on deviation and expansion for National departments and entities (not presented)
The briefing was not presented, as there was a majority position taken by the ANC and the EFF that the session merited ...