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Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
31 Jan 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Transport went through the recent drafting of the proposed Portfolio Committee Amendments to Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill with the assistance of the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA). An important focus was the appeals tribunal established by section 28 which was a critical intervention ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
30 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met to hear and deliberate about the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
The meeting was told that PRASA was the most worst performing government entity when it came to irregular expenditure. Transparency had been ...
Transport
Department of Transport on its Quarter 1 & 2 performance
29 Nov 2016
The Department of Transport briefed the Committee on its 2016/17 first and second quarter expenditure.
The Department had 50 planned targets for Quarter 1, 32 targets were achieved and 18 targets were not achieved. The overall performance percentage of the Department for Quarter 1 was 64%. All the targets for ...
Transport
Administrative Adjudication Road Traffic Offences Bill: Motion of desirability, draft report on Bill; BRRR adopted
16 Nov 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee adopted the motion of desirability of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill. They then turned to a discussion of the Committee's report on the Bill. Members asked whether there was anything in the report mentioning the ...
Transport
Transport Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
15 Nov 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee met to finalise the recommentdations in the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Transport. The recommendations included the following:
-The Minister must ensure that the Department had a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in place for ...
Transport
Department of Transport on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Auditor General input, and Minister in attendance
8 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee met with the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) and the officials from the Department of Transport (DoT), led by the Minister, to discuss the audit outcomes and annual performance of the Department for 2015/16.
The Department had regressed in comparison to the past two years and ...
Transport
South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Deputy Minister in attendance
18 Oct 2016
The South African Maritime Safety Agency, an entity of the Department of Transport (DoT), presented its annual report to the Portfolio Committee on Transport.
The Deputy Minister introduced the presentation by giving the Committee a detailed insight into the international obligations and responsibilities that South Africa had, ...
Transport
Road Accident Fund and SANRAL on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
12 Oct 2016
The Committee was briefed by the Road Accident fund (RAF) and the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) on their annual reports for 2015/16.
The Committee was disappointed to hear that the AG had reported that the RAF had regressed, because over the years the RAF had been the ...
Transport
Department of Transport, PRASA, Railway Safety Regulator on their 2015/16 Annual Reports with Auditor General input
11 Oct 2016
Annual Report Railway Safety Regulator
Annual Report Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa
The Portfolio Committee met to hear presentations from the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the Department of Transport (DoT) and its entities for 2015/16 financial year. The portfolio’s overall outcomes had ...
Transport
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7-2016]: public hearings day 2
22 Sep 2016
Documents: Comments from Transport for Cape Town’s Transport Authority [awaited]
On the second day of public hearings on the National Land Transport Amendment (NLTA) Bill, the Portfolio Committee on Transport received submissions from the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), Transport for Cape ...