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NCOP Finance
Insurance Bill; Health Promotions Levy
29 Nov 2017
Representatives of the National Treasury (NT), South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Financial Service Board (FSB) presented their propositions on the Insurance Bill before the Committee. The Bill was first submitted in January 2015. It had been tabled before the Standing Committee on Finance and four public hearings had ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill: hearings
24 Nov 2017
A joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations received opinions and recommendations from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) group on the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) and the Adjustments Appropriation Bill.
The meeting started on a contentious note, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: National Treasury briefing
22 Nov 2017
The joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees was for a briefing on the 2017 Adjustment Appropriation Bill, but the first hour was taken up by a discussion regarding the legalities of the meeting. The Democratic Alliance (DA), making reference to the Money Bills and Amendment Procedures and Related ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: hearing with Department of Home Affairs + National Treasury
22 Nov 2017
The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs told the Committee that the automated processes of “Who Am I Online” (WAIO) had led to the Department leaping into the next century insofar as efficiency was concerned. For example, the turnaround time for Identity Documents (IDs) had drastically improved, from 90 days to ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: final mandates; Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
21 Nov 2017
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [available under Tabled Committee reports once published]
The Chairperson opened the meeting by asking the committee members and the delegates to introduce themselves. Apologies from Ms T Motara (ANC, Gauteng), Ms B Mathevula (EFF, Limpopo) and Mr Steven Kenyon, National Treasury, whose ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
17 Nov 2017
All the provinces presented their negotiating mandates on the Division of the Revenue Amendment Bill [B24-2017]. Eight provinces accepted the Bill. The Western Cape did not support the bill and cited the following reasons: National Government did not place strong support of the Division of the Revenue Bill and Equitable ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: public hearing
10 Nov 2017
Two submissions were presented on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill at the public hearing before the Select and Standing Committees on Appropriations. The first submission came from the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), which to the surprise of Members, focused on the national and provincial funding mechanisms, rather than ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing
9 Nov 2017
National Treasury briefed a joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2017 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. This meeting was also attended by Members of Provincial Legislatures (MPLs). An objection was raised by Mr O Terblanche (DA; Western Cape) saying that procedure had not been ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017 MTBPS: Financial and Fiscal Commission submission
7 Nov 2017
The Financial and Fiscal Commission briefed the Committee on the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. The main problem, currently, was that the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement was formulated against a backdrop of an economy mired in low growth, which acted as a dead weight on the country’s ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy statement (MTBPS) 2017: public hearings
1 Nov 2017
Cosatu submitted that there was no meaningful plan to arrest the collapse of the economy and the looting of the state, and to spur economic growth to create jobs. Unemployment had nearly doubled since 2014 to a real rate of 36.2%. More than R100 billion of the state’s trillion rand ...