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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
ESKOM Update on SCOPA recommendations on oversight
4 Mar 2020
The Board of Eskom was greeted with strong criticism from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts for its absence at the previous meeting, and for the late arrival of documentation which impacted on its ability to conduct effective oversight. The Chairperson said the Board was the accounting authority, and if ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Task Team & stakeholders on Eskom debt; with COGTA Minister
4 Mar 2020
ATC191016: Report of SCOPA on its oversight visit to ESKOM and its projects of Medupi and Kusile, from 26 to 30 August 2019, dated 16 October 2019
ESKOM Update on SCOPA recommendations following oversight visit, with Deputy Minister
The Chairperson said that there seemed to be no coordinated approach that ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
DPW & Property Management Trading Entity Annual Reports: hearing with Minister
3 Mar 2020
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) appeared before the Committee for a hearing that focused on issues involving management of contract expenditure, and investigations into alleged corruption involving senior officials in supply chain management.
The Members questioned why the Department had such a large backlog ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
COGTA plans to resolve municipal debt to Eskom; with Deputy Ministers
3 Dec 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on its plans to resolve the problem of municipal debt to Eskom. Representatives of Eskom, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and National Treasury were in attendance. The presentation noted that not just municipalities but ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services 2018/2019 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: Follow-up hearing
27 Nov 2019
The Committee continued its review of the registers of fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure of the Department of Correctional Services. It discussed the Department’s capacity challenges, and then the Committee probed several individual cases of fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and continued to probe particular cases in the register of irregular ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
DPWI & PMTE on 2019/20 Quarter 1 & 2 performance; with Deputy Minister
27 Nov 2019
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) reported that it had achieved a 75% overall performance in the first quarter, while the Property Trading Management Entity (PTME) had achieved 50%. In the second quarter, the DPWI had achieved an overall performance of 53.6%, and the PTME had achieved 56.3%. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
UIF & Compensation Fund: deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Committee met with the Compensation Fund and the Unemployment Insurance Fund to review their irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The Minister of Employment and Labour was present. The engagement with the Compensation Fund was delayed by confusion around documents - a revised version of the Fund’s register of irregular ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA 2018/19 financial statements, deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure, with Minister & Deputy Minister
20 Nov 2019
PFMA
Proclamation: SIU investigation into PRASA
PRASA 2018/19 Annual Report
PRASA 2017/18 Annual Report
PRASA 2016/17 Annual Report
Summary
The Committee held a hearing with Prasa to review the entity’s 2018/19 financial statements. The Minister of Transport, as well as his Deputy, was in attendance.
The entity had regressed from ...
Transport
Civil Aviation Amendment Bill [B44-2018]: briefing
19 Nov 2019
The Civil Aviation Amendment Bill sought to strengthen the current safety, security, and environmental regulatory framework. The overall objective was to transform aviation and strengthen its governance and oversight to the benefit of all South Africans. Amendments make provision for the operational independence of aircraft accident and incident investigations by ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Non-Tabling of 2018/19 Annual Reports: SAA & Department of Water and Sanitation, with Deputy Ministers
13 Nov 2019
Video: SAA Engagement with SCOPA
Video: DWS Engagement with SCOPA
The standing committee on public accounts was briefed by South African Airways and the Department of Water and Sanitation on the non-tabling of the Annual Reports for 2018/19.
The Committee was briefed on the non-tabling of 2018/19 Annual ...