Mr Robert Alfred Lees

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Robert Alfred Lees

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties Committee Draft Bill on Funding of Political Parties: briefing & call for comment
    14 Sep 2017

    The Committee met to check that the Committee Draft Bill on the Funding of Political Parties had captured all the proposals agreed to and to ensure that the Bill was ready for gazetting and for public comment. Minor amendments were made and the Committee made a note to address the ...

  • Finance Standing Committee SAA Board Chair contract extension; Treasury & SARS Quarter 1 Report, with Minister & Deputy; Office of Tax Ombud: delayed refunds investigation
    13 Sep 2017

    The South African Airways (SAA) presented its first quarter expenditure and performance report for the financial year 2017/18, in the presence of the Deputy Minister. SAA was expected to lay emphasis on progress made in the implementation of its turnaround strategy and corporate plan since its last appearance before the ...

  • Finance Standing Committee Insurance Bill: deliberations
    12 Sep 2017

    The Committee met with Treasury and the Financial Services Board for further deliberations on the Insurance Bill. The Bill was built on the Twin Peaks model of financial regulation envisaged in the Financial Sector Regulation Act (FSRA) in respect of prudential supervision. It provided a consolidated legal framework for the ...

  • Finance Standing Committee Transformation of the Financial Sector: Committee Report
    6 Sep 2017

    The Standing Committee on Finance and the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, together with National Treasury, deliberated on the Transformation of the Financial Sector Draft Committee Report. The draft report was work in progress and would be sent to the participants for feedback before being finalised. Many of the ...

  • Finance Standing Committee Health Promotion Levy (Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill): discussion
    5 Sep 2017

    National Treasury, together with the Beverage Association of South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, South African Sugar Association and the Healthy Living Alliance, gave an update on ongoing engagements between government and the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) on the Health Promotion Levy (HPL).

    National ...

  • Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties IEC & National Treasury responses on Political Party Funding; Outstanding decisions
    1 Sep 2017

    The IEC had been asked to respond to the Committee’s desire to see the IEC as the manager of the Multi-Party Democracy Fund (MPDF). The question put to the Commission was that if the Committee gave IEC that job, what would be its response? National Treasury had been asked to ...

  • Finance Standing Committee Illicit Financial Flows & Base Erosion and Profit Shifting – focus on prosecutions
    30 Aug 2017

    The Standing Committee on Finance, together with the Portfolio Committees on Trade and Industry; Mineral Resources; and Police, met with the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, the National Prosecuting Authority, South African Revenue Service, Financial Intelligence Centre, South African Reserve Bank, National Treasury and Department of Trade and Industry, and the ...

  • Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties Political discussion on regulatory framework (continued)
    23 Aug 2017

    Documents handed out: Version 2 and 3 of the Working Document (not yet available to public; available later)

    The Committee continued its political discussion on the regulatory framework on the funding of represented political parties, using Version 2 of its Working Document.

    The previous day it had agreed that public ...

  • Public Accounts (SCOPA) South African Airways & National Treasury hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Deputy Minister
    23 Aug 2017

    The Committee met with South African Airways (SAA) to discuss the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure accrued by the airliner in 2015/16.

    SAA reported that it remained undercapitalised since being moved from Transnet in the 1990s. Undercapitalisation was a legacy problem and SAA had received R19.1 billion worth of guarantees. ...

  • Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties Political discussion on regulatory framework
    22 Aug 2017

    Document handed out: Committee Working Document (not available to the public)

    The purpose of the meeting was to consider all the information received from public hearings, to refer to current legislation and to make political decisions about key issues. The basis for work would be a confidential draft document prepared ...