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Public Enterprises
South African Forestry Company Limited Diversification Strategy and Land Claims briefings
27 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL) on its diversification strategy. SAFCOL highlighted that the key strategic priorities were land claims, employment rates, education and skills level in the forestry sector, competitor advancement in upgrading the technology in their operations, climate change and legislation ...
Public Enterprises
Best Corporate Governance Practices: Institute of Directors of Southern Africa capacity building session
20 May 2015
The Institute of Directors of Southern Africa (IoDSA) facilitated a capacity building session with the Committee focusing on corporate governance practices and Board effectiveness in the public sector. The briefing identified critical points around issues of shareholder expectations, value-adding by means of good governance, understanding the strategy, risk, performance and ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules Subcommittee: Rules on SCOPA: input by SCOPA chairperson; Chapters 13-15 of National Assembly Rules; Programme
15 May 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts Chairperson presented proposals for the amendment of the Rules of the National Assembly governing the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. There were two major alterations: the inclusion of a sub-rule empowering the Standing Committee to hold provincial departments and entities directly accountable for funds ...
Public Enterprises
South African Express Airways 2013/14 Annual Report & 2014/5 performance targets; Committee Report on DPE Budget
13 May 2015
The South African Express Airways (SAX) gave a briefing on its 2013/14 Annual Report and on the company’s performance targets for 2014/15. The financial statements for SAX were tabled late due to financial troubles. With the help of the Department of Public Enterprises and the National Treasury, SAX was able ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom feedback on the challenges facing it
22 Apr 2015
In a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committees on Public Enterprises and on Energy, the Eskom Board with support of the Eskom executive, provided feedback on progress made with the challenges facing it.
Questions and concerns raised by Members included:
- Governance instability which included the suspension of the four ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Discussion of Chapters 12-15 of the National Assembly Rules
17 Apr 2015
The Chairperson summarised the procedure and noted the Speaker's request that the process for the new Rules should be completed by end August 2015. This meant that May would be set aside for discussion in the parties, with submissions then to be referred back to the Subcommittee, and thence to ...
Public Enterprises
Department of Public Enterprises response to Committee questions; Auditor-General on DPE 2015 plans
15 Apr 2015
Auditor-General South Africa said no significant findings were identified in the review of the DPE Annual Performance Plan for the 2015/16 financial year. Some of the questions raised by Members were: Was AGSA mandated to act on issues around non-performance? How was it possible that the DPE received a clean ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Review of the Rules of National Assembly Chapter 10-11
9 Apr 2015
The Subcommittee of the Rules Committee continued to deliberate on the proposals for review of the National Assembly Rules (the Rules), starting from Rule 10(4), dealing with allocation of time for replies from the Deputy President, when it was indicated that increases in time previously had not shown positive results. ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Review of the Rules of National Assembly Chapter 10-11
8 Apr 2015
Mr Kasper Hahndiek, Consultant to the Subcommittee and former Secretary to the National Assembly, ran swiftly through the changes that were now being proposed in Chapters 10 onwards of the National Assembly Rules (the Rules), with more specific discussion then being directed to rules 107 to 110. It had been ...
Public Enterprises
Department of Public Enterprises Strategic and Annual Performance Plan 2015/16, in presence of Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Minister and Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) met with the Committee to present the Department's Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan (APP) for 2015/16. The Minister gave an overview of the six State Owned Companies (SOCs) - Transnet, Eskom, SA Express, Denel, South African Forestry Company (SAFCOL) and Alexkor ...