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Agrèment South Africa Bill: Departmental briefing, with Minister and Deputy Minister
24 Feb 2015
The Department of Public Works made a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on the Agrèment South Africa Bill 2015, and provided answers to questions posed by the relatively few Members in attendance.
The Minister introduced the presentation by outlining the Department’s five key priorities for the year. These were:
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Council for the Built Environment (CBE) on its 2013/14 Annual Report
4 Nov 2014
The Council for the Built Environment presented the highlights of its 2013/14 Annual Report. The CBE has received an unqualified audit from the Auditor-General continually since 2011/12. In 2013/14, 86% of the APP targets were achieved. Since 2011, the percentage of targets achieved has risen by approximately 10% every financial ...
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Independent Development Trust on its 2013/14 Annual Report
28 Oct 2014
The Independent Development Trust (IDT) remains in a precarious financial position. This emerged when it was presenting its annual report for the year under review to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works. It reported that there had been supplementary funding of R200 million from the National Treasury for the financial ...
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Public Works Budget Review and Recommendations Report
23 Oct 2014
The Chairperson led Members of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works through a page-by-page review of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The only major issues related to the suggestion to substitute “eliminate corruption” for “address corruption,” and the timeframe for the presentation of financial reports. Members reached agreement ...
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Auditor-General of South Africa on audit outcomes of Department of Public Works
14 Oct 2014
The Office of the Auditor General (AGSA) and the Department of Public Works provided an overview of the audit outcomes and other findings in respect of the Department for the 2013/14 financial year.
AGSA reported that the Department had received an unqualified audit for the period under review. In the ...
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Workshop with Office of Auditor-General, Financial & Fiscal Commission & Department of Performance Monitoring & Evaluation in preparation for BRRR process
25 Sep 2014
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) presented a workshop to the Public Works Portfolio Committee on how to understand audit outcomes better, so that it would be capacitated to perform its oversight function more ...
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Department of Public Works on 1st Quarter Performance for 2014/15
16 Sep 2014
The Department of Public Works (DPW) said this was the first time they had presented a quarterly report after a substantial outcome from their stabilisation phase. A report on the turnaround had been presented to Cabinet and endorsed. It was seven-year turnaround plan. For the first part of their stabilisation ...
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Department of Public Works on Phase Three of Expanded Public Works Programme, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The presentation described the aims and objectives of the third phase of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), which was designed to address the issues of unemployment and poverty, specifically among women and young people. It sought to train millions of unemployed people across different sectors through various Public Employment ...
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Independent Development Trust and Deputy Minister on IDT's way forward
26 Aug 2014
With the Public Works Deputy Minister in attendance, the IDT presented its Strategic Plan for the period 2014/15-2018/19. The presentation focused on the current restructuring of the organisation which had been sparked by the almost complete depletion of their endowment funds. Until the financial crisis, IDT had implemented its projects ...
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Council for the Built Environment on its 2014 Strategic Plan: follow-up meeting
19 Aug 2014
The Committee was briefed on the Strategic and Annual Performance Plans of the Council for the Built Environment (CBE), with the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the Council in attendance. The meeting was a continuation of a previously unfinished meeting.
Members heard that key risks included the dependency on third ...