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Water and Sanitation
Outstanding water debt by municipalities, with DWS Minister + Deputy & COGTA Deputy Minister
29 Nov 2017
The Departments of Water and Sanitation, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and National Treasury, as well as the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) addressed the issues surrounding the huge amount of outstanding debt owed by municipalities for the supply of water to areas under their authority. The Finance Committee ...
Water and Sanitation
Water Master Plan; Water and Sanitation Bill; Economic Regulator for Water: DWS progress report; with Minister
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) reported that the new Water Master Plan would assist it in providing water and sanitation services and to establish a consolidated plan for water and sanitation management to meet future needs. In order to achieve this goal, the DWS would be working with ...
Water and Sanitation
Western Cape drought crisis: DWS; City of Cape Town; COGTA; National Disaster Management Centre & DAFF, with DWS + COGTA Ministers
25 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committees on Water and Sanitation and on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs were briefed on the Western Cape drought crisis by the Departments of Water and Sanitation; Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; the Department of Agriculture, Western Cape; the National Disaster Management Centre, the Western Cape Government, and ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission
10 Oct 2017
The Minister of Economic Development reported on the work by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission (PICC). He pointed out that PICC is the executive’s tool for monitoring the implementation and impact of infrastructural development on the economy. It is a planning and coordinating body. It is neither a funding structure; ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor General + National Treasury input, with the Minister
4 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation was briefed by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes for the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) for the 2016/17 financial year and by DWS on its 2016/17 Annual Report.
The AGSA noted that DWS ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy Minister
13 Sep 2017
The first part of the meeting was devoted to the Minister of Water and Sanitation answering a wide range of questions from Members. These were centred on the apparent confusion over senior figures within the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) being suspended, moved around and returning to old posts. ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance; with Minister
23 Aug 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Water and sanitation on its first quarter report for 2017/18. Before the briefing, the Committee discussed the recently concluded oversight visit where a situation between a Department official, Ms Zandile Mathe and the Committee Whip, Mr H Chauke (ANC) ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Water Affairs irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure & accruals, with Minister: hearing 3
22 Aug 2017
SCOPA met with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up hearing to that in May 2017. At that meeting the Committee had not been satisfied with the answers given DWS and wanted to hear from the Minister herself on the progress made by the Department on irregular, ...
Water and Sanitation
Section 32 Public Finance Management Act reports: NT briefing; Overberg Water Board: DWS & Overberg Water; with Minister
28 Jun 2017
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) Budget Vote 36, and reported that it had overspent its R15.52 billion allocation by R18.9 million (0.1%). The overspending was related to the Department’s infrastructure programmes. However, there had also been under-spending in other programmes.
A key ...
Water and Sanitation
Construction Unit: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Minister
21 Jun 2017
The Department gave a brief background of the history of the Construction Management Unit (CMU), saying that since the unit’s inception the approach had always been labour intensive until after 1998 when personnel on a contract basis was allowed. The presentation spoke to the staffing of the five CMU regions ...