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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation & Trans-Caledon TA 2020/21 Annual Report, with Ministry
18 Oct 2022
The Committee received briefings from the Minister and Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, the Department of Water and Sanitation and the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority on the 2020/2021 Annual Reports.
The focus of the meeting was on longstanding efforts to deal with “huge amounts” of expenditure which had been ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National Skills Fund investigation: legal opinion; Masilonyana Oversight Visit Report
28 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met virtually to deliberate on the legal opinion of the investigation into the National Skills Fund (NSF) expenditure report and consider and adopt the Masilonyana oversight visit report.
The Committee found that the legal opinion agreed with the assertions ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National Skills Fund investigation: Committee deliberation
27 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met with the Department of Higher Education and Training on a virtual platform to receive an update from the Ministry on the forensic investigations at the National Skills Fund (NSF).
The Chairperson informed the Members that he had received the report from ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
DPWI implementation of corrective measures and Committee recommendations
21 Sep 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Committee met with the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) to receive an update on progress with the implementation of corrective measures following the Beitbridge border post fence debacle, and the ongoing processes to effect the Committee's recommendations, and those arising from the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Road Accident Fund 2020/21 Audit Hearing; with Deputy Minister
20 Sep 2022
The Committee met with the Auditor-General of South Africa, the Road Accident Fund, the Accounting Standards Board and the Office of the Accountant General, as a follow-up to its previous engagement to consider the Fund's audit outcome, the change in its accounting policy, and the court case relating to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation 2020/21 audit & SIU investigation, with Minister
14 Sep 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Minister and officials of the Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the audit outcomes for the 2020/21 financial ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National Skills Fund investigation: Minister update
13 Sep 2022
SCOPA met with the Department of Higher Education and Training to receive an update on the forensic investigations at the National Skills Fund. This exercise arose at the behest of the Committee after it had received the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) audit report on the repeated disclaimers for ...
Finance Standing Committee
2022 Draft Tax Bills: public hearings
13 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Finance met on a virtual meeting platform to hear submissions from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA), South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) on the four 2022 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Road Accident Fund 2020/21 Audit Hearing Deferred; with Minister
7 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts held a hearing on the annual performance report and financial statements of the Road Accident Fund for the 2020/2021 financial year. The Minister of Transport was in attendance.
The Minister said that the Auditor-General of South Africa has since published the RAF audit ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
UIF & Compensation Fund: corrective measures implementation
6 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts convened in a virtual meeting to receive a briefing from the Commissioners of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Compensation Fund (CF) on progress with the implementation of corrective measures at the two funds.
The Compensation Fund said that the Director-General had approved ...