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DPSA, DPME, PSC, NSG & Stats SA Budget: Committee Reports
27 May 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, 27 May 2020
Audio: Public Service and Administration Budget: Committee Report
The Portfolio Committee on Public Service Administration adopted and approved five Budget Vote Reports, after final deliberations, as required by the 2009 Money Bills Act.
The Reports ...
Public Service and Administration
Director-General Turnover; Integrated Planning Framework Bill; Guide on Governance Practice for Executive Authorities & HODs; with Minister Mthembu
4 Mar 2020
The Committee was briefed on the progress of finalising the Integrated Planning Framework Bill, the turnover of Directors-General as well as governance practice for Executive Authorities and Heads of Department. The Minister in the President, Mr Jackson Mthembu, arrived late but was present.
During the session with DPME, Members asked ...
Public Service and Administration
Brand South Africa, GCIS, MDDA, Stats SA 2018/19 Annual Reports, with AGSA & DPME input
8 Oct 2019
The Committee received the Auditor-General’s report on the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and presentations of the 2018/19 annual reports from the Department, Brand South Africa and Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).
The Auditor-General reported that the Department and Stats SA both received clean audits, while ...
Public Service and Administration
Frontline Monitoring and Citizen Based Monitoring Tools; Performance Agreements of Heads of Department
18 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefing on frontline monitoring and citizen-based monitoring tools, and on the status report on the filing of Director General (DG) and Head of Department (HoD) performance agreements.
The DPME described the monitoring tools in nine bullet point ...
Public Service and Administration
Reconfiguration of government; Performance Management & Development System; PSC Commissioner vacancy, with Minister
11 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Public Service Commission on the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Performance Management and Development System in the public service. The presentation highlighted the following challenges: a lack of capacity to roll out the system effectively, departments give little attention to performance agreements, in ...
Public Service and Administration
StatsSA & AGSA on their mandates and recent developments
4 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by Auditor General SA on its new mandate that gives it the ability to refer cases, recommend remedial action and issue certificates of debt. AGSA identified 16 auditees with material irregularities during the 2018/19 audit. The process is the accounting officer is notified, and given 20 ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Urban Settlement Development Grant poor performance by Ethekwini & Mangaung
5 Mar 2019
According to eThekwini Municipality, the purpose of the Urban Settlement Development Grant (USDG) flows from the spatial framework of the municipality. This grant subsidises the annual revenue and the expected output of receiving the USDG is to see an improvement in the infrastructure and services within the City, and also ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements Quarter 3 performance; Gauteng Province performance, with Deputy Minister
19 Feb 2019
The national Department of Human Settlements (DHS) presented its third quarter performance report for 2018/19, and the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements (GDHS) presented its performance report as well.
The national DHS had 78% compliance to statutory tabling and prescripts in the third quarter but was very worried about the ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
High Level Panel recommendations: Department of Human Settlements response
4 Dec 2018
The Committee met for the last time in 2018 to consider the recommendations of the High Level Panel (HLP), which had been tasked with reviewing legislation, assessing implementation, looking for gaps and proposing action steps, with a view to identifying laws that required strengthening or amending.
The HLP’s report had ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Human Settlements Quarter 2 performance; High Level Panel recommendations
27 Nov 2018
The Department of Human Settlements briefed the Committee on its second quarter performance, giving details on its achievements in the areas of governance and administration, policy planning, programme performance and finance. The main challenge which had resulted in targets not being achieved had been staff cuts which had reduced its ...