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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) ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
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 ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
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 ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
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 ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Implementation of the Government Immovable Asset Management Act: PMTE briefing
21 Aug 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure was briefed by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure on the Property Management Trading Entity. The presentation gave a background of and explained how the PMTE was structured as well as its financial stability.
Members heard that the Department’s mandate was ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
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). ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Capacity Building Session by Office of the Auditor-General
20 Aug 2019
Auditor-General South Africa briefed the Committee on the audit process, its role, the new Public Audit Amendment Act that came into operation on 1 April 2019, the oversight roles of AGSA in conjunction with the Portfolio Committee in capacitating department financial compliance. Slides were shown of the last 10 years ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works and Infrastructure & PMTE Quarter 4 performance; with Deputy Minister
20 Aug 2019
The Committee was briefed on the 2018/19 fourth quarter performance of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI). It was provided with details of the Department’s mandates, strategic objectives and programmes for its two separate structures – the Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Property Management Trading Entity ...