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Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence, Armscor and Castle of Good Hope on their 2014/15 Annual Reports
20 Oct 2015
The Department of Defence (DOD) told the Portfolio Committee that the defence budget for 2014/15 had been R42.8 billion, which was 1.13% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 3.75% of government expenditure. This inadequate budget allocation had sustained a declining defence capability, declining supporting commitments, and the rejuvenation ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans briefing on its July – September performance and expenditure; and 2014/15 Annual Report and audited financial statements
15 Oct 2015
The Department of Military Veterans briefed the Committee on its annual report, indicating a significant overall improvement in the Department, but noting that there were challenges which they had to deal with in order to provide a better service to veterans.
The Committee said it had raised concerns with the ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence & Military Veterans 2014/15 audit outcomes and challenges requiring more vigilant scrutiny: briefing by Auditor-General
14 Oct 2015
The Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the 2014/15 audit outcomes of the Department of Military Veterans (DMV), and challenges that required more vigilant scrutiny. There had been a general improvement in the 2014/15 financial year as Armscor had received a clean audit and ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Defence on its 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance and measures to resolve audit findings
26 Aug 2015
The Secretary of Defence and Military Veterans explained the significant achievements of the program so far, as well as the financial performance up to June 30 2015. He went through DOD's performance on its targets and noted which were high risk (major action is required), moderate risk (remedial/corrective action required) ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Department of Military Veterans briefing on its 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance, audit findings progress report
18 Aug 2015
The Department of Military Veterans (DMV) gave its first quarter 2015 performance report. It was reported that the audit had been done, and it showed a better result from the previous year, with two qualifications on asset management and transfer management.
In this financial year, the DMV operated through three ...
Defence and Military Veterans
Defence Laws Repeal and Amendment Bill [B7-2015]: South African Law Reform Commission input; Committee Programme
12 Aug 2015
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) briefed the Committee on intention and purpose of the Defence Laws Repeal and Amendment Bill, but since Members did not have the document in front of them it was decided that this would be a preliminary briefing on which more detail and more ...
Defence
National Conventional Arms Control Committee on its 2013 Annual Report and 2014 Quarterly Reports, in presence of Minister in Presidency
6 Aug 2015
The Chairperson of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) briefed the Committee on the 2013 Annual Report and the 2014 First and Second Quarterly Reports. At the outset, he expressed his concern that the 2013 Annual Report had been described as "outstanding", when in fact it had been tabled ...
Economic Development
Portfolio Committee on Economic Development outstanding work
23 Jun 2015
The Committee’s Content Advisor took Members through the five year strategic plan. He highlighted the priorities of the Committee; which included increasing oversight functions, active monitoring of departmental priorities, issues of national state interventions in the economy as it relates to infrastructure implementation, basic efficiency and development of departments in ...
Economic Development
Consideration of outstanding work: postponement of meeting
17 Jun 2015
A meeting was scheduled for 9:30am in an attempt to review the Committee’s outstanding work. Very few members arrived as scheduled (3 ANC members) and three other members arrived within 20 minutes of the stipulated time. The present committee members made frantic efforts to reach their colleagues with an aim ...
Economic Development
Automotive sector: briefing by Economic Development Department & Department of Trade and Industry
9 Jun 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave the Committee a full breakdown of the participants in the South African motor vehicle industry. There were seven original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- Ford, Nissan and BMW (in Gauteng), Toyota (in Durban), Mercedes (in East London), General Motors (in Port Elizabeth) and ...