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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 3 Spending Challenges: Treasury report
18 Feb 2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on 2019/20 Quarter 3 Spending Outcomes for departments. It spoke about expenditure reporting by public entities and the challenges in verifying this.
The overall spending for the Quarter 3 of 2019/20 shows spending of R683 billion, an underspending of R14.4 billion. The largest deviation was ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Overview of Committee work undertaken during 2019
5 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations deliberated on the work undertaken by the Committee in 2019. The Committee Content Adviser took the Committee through the draft report of the recommendations made by the Committee at the previous meeting. It was decided that it was imperative for Members to attach specific timeframes ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Threats and intimidation against auditors during recent MFMA audits: AGSA briefing
4 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee met with the Auditor-General for a briefing on threats of intimidation made against auditing teams while auditing the Municipal Finance Management Act.
The Auditor-General had flagged the threats the year before. The briefing was taking place specifically to avoid reacting only when the incidents hit the headlines. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: finalisation & committee reports
3 Dec 2019
MTBPS Speech by the Minister of Finance
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
The Standing Committee on Appropriations considered and adopted both the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement Report and the 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill.
The Committee spoke about the need for the private sector to play an important ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
AGSA 2018/19 Integrated Annual Report
3 Dec 2019
The Committee considered a draft report based on a previous meeting, where the Auditor-General (AG) had explained to Members how he finalised audits, and which infrastructural tools were used to do so.
The Chairperson went through each point of the report, and allowed Members to put forward suggestions on how ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: public hearings
29 Nov 2019
The joint Appropriations Committees of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) received presentations from seven non-governmental organisations at a public hearing on the 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill and the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) said the National Treasury’s fiscal ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill - DWS & Cooperative Governance briefings (Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation present)
27 Nov 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation presented on the 2019/20 Adjusted Appropriation Bill. The Department had reprioritised infrastructure allocations from underspending projects to those with a capacity to absorb. Funding was reprioritised towards the Blue Drop/Green Drop programme to improve drinking water and wastewater quality management, and the settlement accruals ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill: DoH briefing; Engagement with delegation from Kenyan Parliament; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Committee engaged with the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget of the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya who were on a fact finding visit to learn about how South Africa implemented the Division of Revenue (DoR) and, in particular, the equitable share formula for provinces and local government, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
PRASA audit outcomes: AGSA briefing; 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill: Department of Transport briefing – with Deputy Minister present
20 Nov 2019
The Auditor-General reported that the audit outcome of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) had regressed to a disclaimer, after two years of qualified opinions with findings. Controls at the entity had broken down, and PRASA only achieved 26 percent of its performance targets.
Declining passenger numbers and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: committee report; DPME 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance, with Minister
19 Nov 2019
The Committee met to review a draft Division of Revenue Act (DORA) Committee report and receive a briefing by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on the 2019/20 second quarter performance report for national departments.
The Committee discussed issues raised by Treasury on the Committee’s findings around constant ...