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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Q2 & 3 2022/23 Performance; with Deputy Minister
28 Mar 2023
The Portfolio Committee met on a virtual platform to receive a briefing on the National Youth Development Agency’s (NYDA) performance for the second and third quarters of 2022/23. The presentation covered the individual work that each NYDA board member had undertaken in those two quarters.
During the interaction with ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Postponed:SABC 2021/22 Annual Report & related matters hearing; with Deputy Minister
1 Mar 2023
The Committee convened to receive a briefing from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on their annual report and financial statements for the financial year 2021/22, all investigations, as well as irregular, fruitless, and wasteful expenditure.
Members expressed their dissatisfaction with the Minister’s failure to attend the meeting, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Denel, SASSA, DFFE, Alexkor & Land Bank 21/22 Annual Report: AGSA Input; SIU update on SABC investigations
28 Feb 2023
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) presented to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the annual financial statements of Alexkor, Denel, the South African Social Security Agency, the Land Bank (all of which are state-owned entities), and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Update by State Security Agency on the vetting of Eskom officials; with Minister and Deputy Minister
30 Nov 2022
The Committee convened in Parliament to receive an update from the State Security Agency (SSA) on the vetting of Eskom officials.
The Committee set out its position and the Minister understood its position and indicated that he was consulting on certain legal aspects of the matter. The report for the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Hearing on the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (PRASA) Annual Report and financial statements for 2021/22, with Minister
29 Nov 2022
Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA)
The Committee met with the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) for a hearing on the material irregularities and irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at the SOE. The Minister of Transport was in attendance.
The Minister of Transport said that in March 2022, he ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Postponed: SABC 2021/22 Annual Report Hearing; with Deputy Minister
23 Nov 2022
In a physical meeting at Parliament, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was compelled to adjourn its engagement with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) due to the absence of the broadcaster’s board as an accounting authority. The former board's term of office had ended on October 15, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
2014 Cabinet directive on the vetting of SOE Officials: SSA Update
9 Nov 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was supposed to receive a briefing from the Deputy Minister for State Security on the vetting of officials at state-owned enterprises by the State Security Agency (SSA). The Deputy Minister was supposed to brief the Committee on behalf of the SSA, and this ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet; SAPO; Postbank; PRASA & SABC audit outcomes: AGSA briefing
2 Nov 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts received a briefing from the Auditor-General of South Africa on the audit outcomes for the financial year of 2021/22 for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the South African Post Office, the South African Postbank, Transnet, and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National Treasury, UIF, Compensation Fund Annual Report non-tabling: with Ministers
1 Nov 2022
The Minister of Employment and Labour and the Department updated the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on the Unemployment Insurance Fund and Compensation Fund which had not tabled their 2021/22 Annual Reports, making them non-compliant with the Public Finance Management Act.
The Committee established that neither the UIF ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom progress & investigations: update with Deputy Minister
19 Oct 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) convened in Parliament to receive an update from Eskom on ...