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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2019]: Salga briefing & public hearings
15 Nov 2019
The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations heard submissions from the South
African Local Government Association (SALGA) and the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) on the 2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill (DoRAB).
SALGA told the committees that the weaker economy meant that local government’s equitable share of national revenue ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing
14 Nov 2019
The National Treasury briefed the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill (DoRAB). They were told it proposed relatively small in-year adjustments in the allocation of funds to national, provincial and local government.
The Committees were briefed on the way in which the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
DPME 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance for National Departments; Committee strategy concerning Eskom
13 Nov 2019
The Committee was supposed to have been briefed by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation DPME on the performance of National Departments but the Committee did not accept that the Department had only sent a single Chief Director. Members found it a sign of disrespect as the Deputy Directors ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 MTBPS: Human Sciences Research Council (HRSC) submission
12 Nov 2019
The Human Sciences Research Council (HRSC) gave a submission on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement touching on government debt and the public sector wage bill; health issues in the form of HIV/AIDS, the youth, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), NHI; gender based violence; and education budget priorities. It also giving a ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 MTBPS: Public Service Commission briefing
6 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed on the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy (MTBPS) by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The PSC spoke to its mandated areas of oversight and administration and adherence to applicable procedures of the Public Service such as personnel; public administration practices; and compliance to the values and ...
Finance Standing Committee
2019 MTBPS: PBO & FFC briefing
5 Nov 2019
Members of the Finance and Appropriations Committees heard opposing views on what should be done to restore the country’s finances when they were briefed on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).
In its presentation, the FFC ...
Finance Standing Committee
2019 Pre-MTBPS: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
29 Oct 2019
Video: Mboweni fields questions on mini-budget
Key Budget Documents MTBPS 2019
2019 MTBPS
Parliament’s Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations held a joint session during which they were briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to be delivered by the ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Committee Engagement with AGSA & SA Roadies Association on matters of concern as raised by the latter; AGSA on Strategic Plan and Budget
25 Oct 2019
The Committee received an oral briefing from the South African Roadies Association (SARA) on a complaint it had lodged with the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) regarding its application for funding at the National Arts Council (NAC). It claimed the Council had faked SARA’s funding application, and that the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2018/19: briefing by Auditor General
23 Oct 2019
Parliament’s Standing Committees on Public Accounts and Appropriations were told that the key message from the 2018/19 audit outcomes of government departments and state-owned entities (SOEs) was that preventive controls, strong consequence management and an effective monitoring culture were still lacking.
Of the 432 entities that were audited, 100 had ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Special Appropriation Bill [B10-2019]: committee report
10 Oct 2019
The Committee adopted its report on the Special Appropriation Bill [B10-2019], with amendments to reflect the need for more stringent conditions to be imposed on the R59 billion bailout to Eskom over the 2019/20 and 2020/21 financial years
The Committee underlined that it did not want to give Eskom a ...