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Eskom Inquiry: Venete Klein, Viroshini Naidoo, Brian Molefe
21 Nov 2017
The Committee invited Ms Venete Klein former Eskom board member to account about corporate governance at Eskom during her tenure as a board member and the chairperson of the people and governance board committee. Ms Klein joined Eskom at the time load shedding was at stage 3 costing the country ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Films and Publications Amendment Bill: finalisation
21 Nov 2017
The Committee met to adopt the Films and Publications Amendment Bill [B37-2015]. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor said that what appeared in the B version of the Bill considered every constitutional and legal concern of the Committee.
The DA wanted to offer an addition to the wording of the definition of ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom corporate governance inquiry: David Fine
15 Nov 2017
The Eskom Inquiry continued with a submission from Dr David Fine, Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company, who is currently based in London but was, previously, the Head of McKinsey in South Africa.
Before proceedings began, several Members registered their concerns about people who had begun to verbally attack the ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Brand South Africa Quarter 1 performance: with Minister; Films and Publications Amendment Bill; Communications BRRR
14 Nov 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
Brand South Africa briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 Quarter 1 performance. The overall achievement was high, as 92% of targets were reached. Brand SA spoke about international and domestic projects undertaken to improve the country’s brand, but emphasised that every South ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Tsholofelo Molefe; Suzanne Daniels
8 Nov 2017
Documents Handed Out: Submission prepared by: Tsholofelo Molefe [awaited]
The Committee heard from its first witness for the day, Tsholofelo Molefe, who was the former Director of Finance at Eskom. She was suspended by the board of Eskom in 2014 along with three other executives. The evidence leader took the Committee through ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC & ICASA Quarter 1 performance, Minister on court ruling on ministerial powers; with Deputy Minister present
7 Nov 2017
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) briefed the Committee on its Quarter 1 Performance for its six programmes: Administration, Licensing, Policy Research and Analysis, Engineering and Technology, Regions and Compliance and Consumer Affairs. The overall performance in achieving the targets of all programmes was 72.7%, signifying a major ...
Public Enterprises
Corporate governance in Eskom - Trillian (in camera)
3 Nov 2017
Ms Bianca Goodson who served as the CEO of Trillian Management Consulting (TMC) from 1 January 2016 to 19 March 2016 gave evidence.
Ms Goodson informed the Committee that TMC did not do any billable work from its inception until 1 March 2016. TMC only had two employees for that ...
Public Enterprises
Corporate governance in Eskom – How Optimum coal mine was purchased
1 Nov 2017
Mr Piers Marsden appeared as witness. Mr Marsden and Mr Petrus van den Steen were appointed as business rescue practitioners on the 4 August 2015 for Optimum Coal Holdings (OCH), as well as Optimum Coal Mine (OCM).
Before and during the business rescue process, unsolicited approaches to purchase OCM were ...
Public Enterprises
Election of Chairperson; Public Enterprises Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2017
Documents handed out: Public Enterprises Budgetary Review Recommendations Report [available once published Tabled Committee Reports]
The Committee elected Ms L Mnganga-Gcabashe (ANC) as Chairperson of the Committee. At the same time, the Committee also agreed that the Ms D Rantho (ANC) who had been Acting Chairperson of the Committee would ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Films and Publications Amendment Bill: deliberations
24 Oct 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on the proposed amendments to the Films and Publications Amendment Bill (B37 of 2015) as captured in the A list. Members expressed displeasure that Parliamentary Legal Services had not incorporated the A list into the Films and Publications Amendment Bill (B37 of 2015) because the ...