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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017 MTBPS: Financial and Fiscal Commission submission
7 Nov 2017
The Financial and Fiscal Commission briefed the Committee on the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. The main problem, currently, was that the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement was formulated against a backdrop of an economy mired in low growth, which acted as a dead weight on the country’s ...
Constitutional Review Committee
2016 public submissions: legal opinions
2 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: List of eight legal opinions [awaited]
This sitting of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review met to hear legal opinion on public submissions received in 2016. Five Parliamentary Legal Advisers presented their opinions on eight individual submissions, with two submissions not heard because the relevant legal officers were ...
Finance Standing Committee
2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
31 Oct 2017
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) appeared before the joint committees of Finance and Appropriations (National Assembly and National Council of Provinces) to give a post Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) analysis.
The PBO noted that performance of key macroeconomic variables over the past five years has not been impressive. The ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2017: Minister in the Presidency & Minister of Finance briefing
26 Oct 2017
The Minister in the Presidency together with the Minister of Finance, and National Treasury gave presentations on the 2017 Mandate Paper and the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
The Minister in the Presidency explained that the purpose of the Mandate Paper is to function as a shorter-term instrument of national planning, ...
NCOP Appropriations
CASP, Ilima/Letsema, Land Care Programme Conditional Grants performance: hearing; with Minister
17 Oct 2017
National Treasury and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) presented on the provincial agriculture grants. According to Treasury, the purpose of the Comprehensive Agricultural Support programme (CASP) was to facilitate agricultural development by targeting beneficiaries of land reform, restitution and redistribution, and other black producers who had acquired ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee minutes
14 Sep 2017
The Committee adopted all the outstanding minutes.
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Report on Study Tour to Malaysia; Fourth Term Committee Programme
13 Sep 2017
The Committee discussed and approved its study tour report on the visit to Malaysia.
Members had an overall positive and good impression of their visit to Malaysia and felt that it was a conducive and a high level engagement.
The Committee received a briefing on its draft Fourth Term Programme. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: FFC submission
12 Sep 2017
The FFC told the Committee that it had focused on urban areas for the current year, after focusing on the rural areas in the previous year. It was unclear if the SA economic growth pattern was pro-poor. The SA workforce was predominantly urban-based. Inequality was high in the metros. Improved ...
Constitutional Review Committee
2016 public submissions: briefing
1 Sep 2017
The Constitutional Review Committee met for a briefing by the Content Advisor on the 2016 submission. The Content Advisor focused on the importance of an adequate reference system to keep track of the submissions, i.e. which submissions have been considered to be outside of the mandate of the Committee, which ...
NCOP Finance
Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni Metro performance; Committee Report on Provincial Treasuries 2016/17 expenditure
2 Aug 2017
The Ekurhuleni metro told the Select Committee on Finance that it had a 10-point plan, which included the revitalisation of manufacture and land being made available for strategic development. Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) were supported through public procurement, and public transport had been improved. Infrastructure investment and skills ...