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Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report 2019
25 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
The Committee considered and adopted the Committee's Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Human Settlements.
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on outstanding debt owed to entities
22 Oct 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Committee on the efforts being made to recover funds owed to entities responsible for ensuring a supply of water to South Africa’s urban and rural communities. The municipalities’ water-use debt to the Water Trading Entity (WTE) and water boards had escalated by ...
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HDA & SHRA 2018/19 Annual Reports
15 Oct 2019
The governance of the entities of the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation was keeping the Minister awake at night.
Mr Joseph Leshabane, Acting Director-General in the Department of Human Settlements, made this revelation during the discussion with the Portfolio Committee on the Housing Development Agency ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
NHBRC, EAAB, CSOS 2018/19 Annual Reports
11 Oct 2019
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) said its function was to protect the housing consumer, to enable home builders to achieve industry standards and to regulate, influence and enforce compliance to building standards. Its key strategic objectives were the following to ensure effective regulatory compliance, ensure ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
DoHS, NHFC, Nurcha & RHLF 2018/19 Annual Reports, with AGSA & DPME input
10 Oct 2019
The Auditor-General of SA reported that the Department of Human Settlements (DoHS) received an unqualified opinion throughout the medium-term strategic framework (MTSF), with findings on reported performance against predetermined objectives. The Department also had material noncompliance findings between 2014/15 and 2016/17, with its annual financial statement (AFS) ...
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Induction Workshop by AGSA & National Treasury
10 Sep 2019
The Committee’s induction workshop consisted of three presentations. The first involved the National Treasury explaining budgeting processes, the second dealt with the Public Finance Management Act and National Treasury regulations, and the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) dealt with a range of auditing issues, including its new powers introduced ...
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Engagement with stakeholders on challenges experienced at Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Works in Hammanskraal; with Deputy Minister
10 Sep 2019
The Chairperson of the Committee said there was a need for a structural and systematic change to the entire South African water value chain, rather than a “Band Aid over cracks approach," especially as there was a realisation that the system was under severe pressure. The majority of municipalities were ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Transfer of grants to municipalities; NHFC, NURCHA and RHLF consolidation
3 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on its conditional grants, by the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) on the merging of three development finance institutions (DFIs) into a single entity -- the Human Settlements Development Bank (HSDB) --and by the Department of Human Settlements ...
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Department of Water and Sanitation Term 1 expenditure; with Deputy Minister
23 Aug 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) presented its first quarter analysis report for the year 2019/20 to the Committee, providing an overview of its financial and non-financial performance, its entities’ performance, governance issues, as well as its financial recovery plan.
The Department had under-spent on the compensation of employees ...
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Ministry & Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation on First Quarter Expenditure report
20 Aug 2019
The Department of Human Settlements appeared before the Committee to present its first quarter expenditure report and described how R31.7bn of its R33.9 billion budget for 2019/20 had been allocated to grants – R18.8bn to the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG), and R12.9bn to the Urban Settlements Development Grant (USDG). ...