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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SOCPEN system rewrite tender award: complaint against Minister; Contingent liabilities, commitments and accruals of national departments
22 Feb 2017
The Committee discussed its first term programme and decided to meet with Eskom first. Based on Eskom's input on municipalities, municipalities would be called to a meeting.
The report from researchers on accruals, contingent liabilities and commitment revealed that that in order to avoid unauthorised expenditure, departments delayed the payment ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
30 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met to hear and deliberate about the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
The meeting was told that PRASA was the most worst performing government entity when it came to irregular expenditure. Transparency had been ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with the Minister in attendance
29 Nov 2016
The committee interrogated the board of the South African National Road Agency (SANRAL) on the R1.1 billion in expenditure for the current financial year which did not comply with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), despite the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) having found that between the years ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
23 Nov 2016
The Minister of Social Development, the Auditor General and the Hawks were present for the hearing on of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA).
SASSA was asked to explain the irregular expenditure involving R316 million (CPS contract), R414 million (physical security), R233 million ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL & COGTA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Ministerial input
16 Nov 2016
The Committee interrogated the fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure reported by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) in relation to the financial statements for 2015/16, for the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). The Deputy Minister of Transport, and the Minister and ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Military Veterans, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure
15 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) questioned the new Acting Director General (DG) on the high levels of irregular expenditure within the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) which was noted to be the “worst performing department in terms of irregular expenditure” as 21.5% of the DMV budget spending was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education & SITA Annual Reports 2015/16: hearing, with Minister of Education
9 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), with the objective of ensuring that managers did not tolerate this type of expenditure, and would hold officials ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Outstanding 2016 Annual Reports: Departments' reasons for non-submission
1 Nov 2016
The Committee met to discuss the position of the government entities that had not submitted their Annual Reports to Parliament as required. Invitations to appear before SCOPA had been sent to four departments and two entities. The Department of Environmental Affairs was absent, informing the Committee that it was still ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Auditor-General of South Africa 2015/16 Audit Report; Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report Analysis: Committee’s Researchers
12 Oct 2016
The Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee about the audit findings of Parliament’s Annual Report for 2015/16, and reported that Parliament had been operating on a deficit of over R110 million, while its vacancy rate was standing at 19.6%, which translated to 336 vacant positions.
The financial statements submitted ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...