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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Land Bank financial challenges with National Treasury input
20 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 20 May 2020
Audio: Land Bank financial challenges with National Treasury input
The Standing Committee on Appropriations heard briefings from the Land Bank and National Treasury on the deteriorating financial position of the Land Bank. The Land Bank noted that as there were sensitive discussions ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rule on Virtual meetings; Reconfiguration of Clustered System of Government Portfolios for Questions to Ministers
19 May 2020
Video: National Assembly Rules Committee, 19 May 2020
National Assembly 9th Edition : May 2016
The National Assembly (NA) Rules Committee met to consider the rule on virtual meetings in terms of National Assembly Rule 6 (unforeseen eventualities), as well as the reconfiguration of the clustered system of Government for ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
11 May 2020
Audio: Appropriation Bill: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) briefed the Committee on the 2020 Appropriation Bill.
The 2020 budget proposes a significant reduction in expenditure growth. This is to reduce the budget deficit and level of debt. More expenditure cuts could severely harm service delivery. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Human Sciences Research Council briefing; COVID-19 Update
6 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 6 May 2020
“People will not be killed by COVID, but they will be killed by hunger”. This assertion by an African woman in the North West province was among 5 000 written responses the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) had received in a survey which ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Public Service Commission briefing
4 May 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Appropriations, 04 May 2020
The Public Service Commission (PSC) briefed the Committee on the 2020 Appropriation Bill, and highlighted that the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic had provided lessons on the agility of the government and public administration as a whole. It proposed that Parliament ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Bill [B3-2020]
17 Mar 2020
The Committee met to consider and adopt the Committee”s draft report on the Division of Revenue Bill [B3-2020]. A motion on the desirability of the bill was read and adopted.
Members questioned whether the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) should not also be mentioned as having been consulted, and whether they ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2020 Budget (Expenditure and Division of Revenue): FFC briefing
4 Mar 2020
2020 Budget Speech
Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), briefed the Committee on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals. It said there had been a contraction in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy, as well as a contraction in fixed asset formation ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Pre-2020 budget workshop with National Treasury on budget instruments to be tabled by Minister of Finance
25 Feb 2020
The Committee and National Treasury officials held a pre-2020 budget workshop on the budget instruments to be tabled by the Minister of Finance the following day. The workshop covered the documents tabled by the Minister, particularly the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the Appropriation Bill.
Treasury said any proposed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Contract Deviations & Expansions 2019/20 Quarter 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
19 Feb 2020
The Standing Committee considers the deviations and expansions for the 2019/20 financial year. The report consists of all the deviations and expansions which have either been supported, not supported, conditionally supported or noted by the National Treasury. The acting Chief Procurement Officer, National Treasury explained the concepts and outlined the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Overview of Committee work undertaken during 2019
5 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations deliberated on the work undertaken by the Committee in 2019. The Committee Content Adviser took the Committee through the draft report of the recommendations made by the Committee at the previous meeting. It was decided that it was imperative for Members to attach specific timeframes ...