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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations by national departments and entities for 2016/17: Treasury briefing
5 Sep 2017
Documents handed out:
Briefing by the National Treasury on procurement through deviation and expansion (not presented)
Spreadsheets on deviation and expansion for National departments and entities (not presented)
The briefing was not presented, as there was a majority position taken by the ANC and the EFF that the session merited ...
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SA Express irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing with Minister & Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2017
SA Express was called in for a hearing on its irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure incurred in 2015/16. However, looming over this was the fact that SA Express had an unaudited R234m loss in 2016/17, after a R16.9m profit in 2015/6. According to analysts and experts, SAX still had to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS): hearing with Treasury, with Minister of Finance
29 Aug 2017
Minister Malusi Gigaba said the National Treasury was appearing before the Committee on the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) project aimed at modernising and integrating all human resource and financial management systems across government and it was there to account for the poor financial and operating controls which an internal ...
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. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Water Affairs irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure & accruals, with Minister: hearing 3
22 Aug 2017
SCOPA met with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up hearing to that in May 2017. At that meeting the Committee had not been satisfied with the answers given DWS and wanted to hear from the Minister herself on the progress made by the Department on irregular, ...
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SAPO on payment of services: SASSA progress report
15 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the South African Social Security Agency (SASS) on progress made thus far with the South African Post Office (SAPO) regarding their intention to take over the payment of social security grants from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) when the 12-month period ended on 31 March ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Correctional Services Irregular, Fruitless & Wasteful Expenditure & Accruals; with Minister Day 2
14 Jun 2017
The Committee engaged with the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on suspect contracts procured by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). The Committee had received a letter from Integritron Integrated Solutions lawyers about this hearing. According to the letter, there was a 2016 court interdict prohibiting Minister Masutha from ...
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SAPS members conflict of interest / doing business with the state: hearing, with Deputy Minister
13 Jun 2017
The SCOPA hearing with the South African Police Service (SAPS) was the result of a presentation by the Auditor-General that showed that SAPS had the highest number of officials who had a conflict of interest in that they were involved with companies doing business with SAPS or with other state ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water Affairs: hearing 2
31 May 2017
SCOPA had arranged the hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up to an unsatisfactory hearing in November 2016. In addition to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, the DWS accruals and commitments were added to the agenda. As it turned out, Committee came close to declaring the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom coal supply agreements with Tegeta: hearing with Minister
30 May 2017
The primary reason for the engagement with was Eskom to get an understanding and clarity about why certain things happened and certain things did not, based on the two reports by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) that Eskom themselves had commissioned to seek clarity on areas of deficiency and to be able to ...