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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Public Enterprises Quarter 4 performance: hearing
5 Sep 2017
The Committee met to receive a report from the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for 2016/17 financial year. The Committee was told that the Department had spent 94.7% of its overall budget, and the under-spending of 5.3% had been due to vacancies following the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing with Minister & Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2017
SA Express was called in for a hearing on its irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure incurred in 2015/16. However, looming over this was the fact that SA Express had an unaudited R234m loss in 2016/17, after a R16.9m profit in 2015/6. According to analysts and experts, SAX still had to ...
Public Enterprises
Task team report-back on meeting with Speaker
23 Aug 2017
This meeting held against the backdrop of the 16 August Committee meeting, in which it had adopted a legal opinion from the Parliamentary Legal Office to conduct an inquiry into governance failures at Eskom, Denel and Transnet (hereafter, State Capture inquiry). The Committee had agreed that a sub-committee should meet ...
Transport
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7-2016]: briefing
22 Aug 2017
The Department of Transport noted that a number of issues, mostly technical in nature, had necessitated amendment of the National Land Transport Act. It had consulted a wide range of stakeholders before seeking approval of the Amendment Bill by Cabinet.
The National Land Transport Act (NLTA) was passed to further ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom inquiry: legal opinion
16 Aug 2017
The Parliamentary Legal Office presented a legal opinion on the proposed process for the Committee to conduct the inquiry into State Owned Enterprises. On 25 July 2017, the Committee had considered the process to be followed in conducting an inquiry into the governance failures at Eskom. The Committee was of ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom inquiry: preparations
21 Jun 2017
Documents handed out: Parliament Researcher analysis of Eskom’s Denton Report (not available)
The Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprise met to prepare terms of reference and to discuss the required documentation and lists of witnesses for an enquiry into Eskom, with particular reference to the pension pay out and reappointment of ...
Public Enterprises
South African Express Airways & Safcol turnaround progress
14 Jun 2017
SAFCOL and South African Express Airways (SAX) briefed the portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on their turnaround strategies and the implementation thereof.
Briefing by SAFCOL on progress made in the diversification strategy and turning around the company
According to SAFCOL, the forestry industry has only utilised 1 224 456 ha ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom coal supply agreements with Tegeta: hearing with Minister
30 May 2017
The primary reason for the engagement with was Eskom to get an understanding and clarity about why certain things happened and certain things did not, based on the two reports by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) that Eskom themselves had commissioned to seek clarity on areas of deficiency and to be able to ...
Public Enterprises
Denel Asia; Denel CEO & CFO disciplinary action: update, with Deputy Minister
24 May 2017
Denel met with the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises to brief it on the status of the former executives of the company who were under suspension, and to provide an update on Denel Asia. However, Members emphasised the importance of having the National Treasury and the Minister of Finance present ...
Public Enterprises
Minister of Public Enterprises and Eskom Board on reappointment of Brian Molefe as GCEO; with Deputy Minister present
23 May 2017
The Committee met for an urgent engagement with the Minister and Deputy Minister of the Department of Public Enterprises and the Board of Eskom on the apparent reappointment of Mr Brian Molefe as CEO of the power utility after it was said he had resigned and then became a Member ...