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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Defaulting municipalities: Eskom briefing
6 Mar 2018
SCOPA met with members of the Eskom Board, the Acting CEO and other executives of Eskom as well as the Director-General of Treasury to discuss the debts and the receivables of Eskom. The Committee was concerned about the dangers that the mounting debt posed to the economy. Eskom made a ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure; Forensic Data Analysts and other contracts: hearing
28 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) demanded that the National Police Commissioner resolve the situation concerning the continuation of multimillion rand contracts with Forensic Data Analysts (FDA). The Committee had previously urged the cancellation of FDA’s contracts with the police and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). The FDA ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing
27 Feb 2018
This was quite a tough and uncompromising meeting, during which the Standing Committee on Public Accounts tried to elicit detailed answers from the Department of Water and Sanitation on irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure which had previously been identified in briefings to the Committee. Particular attention was focused on borehole ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure; infrastructure; scholar transport: hearing; with Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, infrastructure issues and scholar transport involving the Department of Basic Education (DBE), with the objective of ensuring that officials of the Department followed due process in all of its projects, and that they were held ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IPID investigations: progress and challenges
20 Feb 2018
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on its investigations, especially that of former acting SAPS National Commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane. The Committee was surprised by the amount of detail presented by the Head of Investigations, including the almost unbelievable story of SAPS ...
Finance Standing Committee
Steinhoff International challenges
31 Jan 2018
The Standing Committee on Finance, Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration held a joint briefing on the Steinhoff crisis together with National Treasury, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the Financial Services Board (FSB), the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on deviations and expansions: hearing postponed
6 Dec 2017
This meeting was called to allow Transnet to answer questions regarding contract deviations and expansions, as well as investigations that were being conducted by the Hawks. Transnet had requested condonations of over R200 million on these deviations and expansions. The meeting was a follow up to a meeting that took ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS irregular expenditure; Forensic Data Analysts contracts: hearing with SAPS, SITA, IPID
29 Nov 2017
SITA document annexures available on request
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to discuss patterns of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure within SAPS and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). A DA MP began the hearing by providing photo evidence from a SAPS trip to the UK in 2011 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet contracts, vetting, irregular expenditure, accruals: hearing
28 Nov 2017
Transnet said that vetting was instituted following a 2014 Cabinet decision that all supply chain management (SCM) personnel be vetted. Discussions with organised labour followed on issues of confidentiality and whether all SCM staff had to be vetted. To date only 56 out of 750 staff had supplied all the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in 2016/17
22 Nov 2017
The board of Transnet faced intensive questioning from Members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) when it was called to account for the irregular expenditure figures reported by the Auditor General (AG). It was pointed out that the central figures in the deliberations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ...