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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Election of Chairperson
10 Jul 2024
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) elected Mr S Zibi (Rise Mzansi) as Chairperson.
The EFF objected to the nomination and election of the Chairperson on the basis that the convention is for SCOPA to be Chaired by a member of the opposition. As a result of the Government ...
Economic Development
Committee Oversight Reports
12 Mar 2019
The North West Oversight Report was adopted with the addition of 2 suggestions. A Member suggested that the reports hould include the Sun City Airport matter as well as the alleged corruption in the Mphebatho Cultural Museum. The Committee noted that this would assist the Sixth Parliament Committee, and recommend ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Localisation progress report by Auditor-General, PRASA, National Treasury, DTI
5 Mar 2019
The Portfolio Committee had a tightly packed agenda as the intention was to close off on localisation so that the Committee could prepare an interim report on the topic. The Department of Trade and Industry, National Treasury, the Office of the Auditor-General and PRASA briefed the Committee on progress and ...
Economic Development
Legacy Report of Economic Development Portfolio Committee
5 Mar 2019
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The Committee discussed and approved its legacy report. The content adviser took the Members through the areas where amendments had been made. The issues raised during the previous meeting were addressed and the report was concluded.
A Member suggested that the legacy ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Transformation
27 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Minister of Economic Development on the impact created by the Industrial Development Corporation’s (IDC’s) investment decisions on transformation and economic inclusion. The Department had set a five year target for the IDC to promote economic inclusion and had provided it with R32 billion funding ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department Quarter 1 & 2 performance; with Minister and Deputy present
13 Nov 2018
The Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel, met with the Committee to brief it on quarter one and two performance of the Department of Economic Development (EDD) for the 2018/19 financial year. Quarter one covered the period 1 April 2018 to 30 June 2018 and the presentation addressed highlights ...
Economic Development
Committee business
6 Nov 2018
The Committee considered multiple outstanding minutes from 21 August to 16 October 2018. Members went through each document individually and made corrections to some of them before adopting. Minutes were adopted for all sessions except the second half of the 16th October meeting.
Members raised several issues with the draft ...
Economic Development
IDC 2017/18 Annual Report; Competition Amendment Bill: adoption
16 Oct 2018
The Committee passed the final version (B-list) of the Competition Amendment Bill as well as the Committee Report on the Bill.
The DA objected to both, highlighting that the Bill gave too much powers to the Minister. The party further complained that the process undertaken by the Committee was questionable ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2017/18 Annual Report; with Minister & Deputy Minister
11 Oct 2018
The EDD briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 annual report. The Minister and Deputy Minister were in attendance.
The EDD received a clean audit, and there as an overall improvement in the control environment as evidenced by less findings compared to the previous financial years.
In terms ...
Economic Development
Competition Commission on its 2017/18 Annual Report
10 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
The Commission briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 annual report which outlined its cases, market inquiries, challenges, financial constraints, lack of capacity, exorbitant legal fees, lack of expertise, and the controversial unqualified audit opinion with material findings on irregular expenditure.
The Commission reported categorically that the lack ...