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NCOP Finance
Committee Report on Provincial Expenditure 2017/18
7 Aug 2018
The Select Committee on Finance adopted the draft report on the provincial treasuries’ preliminary budget outcomes for the 2017/18 financial year.
The Committee resolved it would request the National Treasury and Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) to brief it on the audited figures because the reported figures by the provinces were ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Public Hearings on Review of Section 25 of Constitution (26 July - 4 August 2018)
17 Jul 2018
In February 2018, the National Assembly adopted a motion proposed by the EFF, with amendments by the ANC, that Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee investigate mechanisms through which land can be expropriated without compensation. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee was mandated by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Status Report on logistics for public hearings in provinces
21 Jun 2018
The Joint Standing Committee on Constitutional Review met to receive reports on the status of logistics for the public hearings due to commence in the Northern Cape on 26 June 2018 and to make final decisions on certain aspects of the process. The Committee was reminded that an extension had ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Constitution Section 25: Colloquium
8 Jun 2018
YOUTUBE: Constitutional Review Committees colloquium
In search of answers regarding the single most important political question facing South Africa today - land reform through Expropriation Without Compensation - the Joint Standing Committee on Constitutional Review held a colloquium of experts in Parliament.
A former Judge at the Constitutional Court and ...
NCOP Appropriations
Human Settlements Grant 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) allocation for the 2017/18 financial year amounted to R19.9 billion, which was a R1.6 billion increase over the previous year. The grant was allocated through the HSDG allocation formula approved by the Human Settlements Ministers and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC) and National Treasury. ...
NCOP Appropriations
School Sanitation Audit; Education Infrastructure expenditure; with Minister
30 May 2018
The School Sanitation Audit was presented as a work in progress. This was in response to the President's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities after the March 2018 drowning of Lumka Mketwa in a pit toilet at an Eastern Cape primary school. In 2014 Michael Kompane also lost ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: adoption of programme for public hearings
10 May 2018
The meeting concerned the programme to facilitate public hearings on the proposed review of section 25 of the Constitution to provide for the expropriation of land without compensation.
Chairperson Smith noted the public hearings were originally scheduled to begin at the end of May 2018. The NCOP however had to ...
NCOP Appropriations
2018 Division of Revenue Bill: National Treasury briefing, Financial Fiscal Commission & SALGA submission
20 Mar 2018
The Committee received input from National Treasury, the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on the 2018 Division of Revenue Bill.
The National Treasury briefing focussed on the consultative Division of Revenue Bill process that involved many stakeholders like the Budget Council (Finance Minister ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: proposed programme for public hearings
20 Mar 2018
The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review was given a mandate by the National Assembly and the National Provincial Council of Provinces to review of Section 25 of the Constitution, and other clauses where necessary, to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Committee Report on 2018/19 Budget
6 Mar 2018
The Standing Committee on Finance together with the Select Committee on Finance met for consideration and adoption of the Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals (Budget) Report.
The main highlights of the report was as follows: The Committees noted that this was probably the most difficult and challenging budget presented since ...