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Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act proposed amendments: Auditor-General briefing
17 Mar 2017
The Auditor General (AG) presented its review of the Public Audit Act (PAA) and highlighted the issues affecting the quality of the financial statements of government entities and departments, which continued to remain a challenge. 58% of the auditees with adverse and/or disclaimed opinions had had similar opinions for the ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament’s 2016/17 mid-year performance; Committee’s 2nd term programme, NEHAWU Letter
16 Mar 2017
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted the draft report the on Parliament mid-year performance for the 2016/17 period and considered its second term programme. The Committee further discussed why the Secretary of Parliament did not appear before the Committee to answer on issues the Members ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Defaulting municipalities: Eskom briefing
8 Mar 2017
The enormous trade receivables of the power utility has become an increasingly difficult issue to address with the total overdue debt including interest at the end of November 2017 sitting at R10.2 billion, as at 26 February 2017 the overdue debt increased to R9.9 billion from R9.5 billion at the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
SABC Board Inquiry Final Report: deliberations and adoption
24 Feb 2017
The Committee considered the SABC Board Inquiry Final Report and ensured that all the amendments were correctly captured in the revised report. The Committee formally adopted the SABC Board Inquiry Final Report. The Democratic Alliance (DA) and United Democratic Movement (UDM) reserved their rights until the Report was presented to ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
SABC Board Inquiry interim report: consideration of responses
22 Feb 2017
The Committee continued considering the SABC response to its Interim Report and making amendments to it. The SABC response clarified that the Vision View contract was approved 31 July 2015 but was confirmed on 18 September 2015 and that in addition to the Board’s round robin decision, further ratification was ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
SABC Board Inquiry Interim Report: consideration of responses
21 Feb 2017
The Committee met to consider its responses to the Interim Report on the Inquiry into the fitness of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board to hold office.
The Committee had afforded all parties affected in the Interim Report the opportunity to respond to the report’s content. At this meeting, ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament on its Quarter 3 performance
17 Feb 2017
The Secretary to Parliament, Mr. G Mgidlana (ANC), presented a comprehensive briefing on the performance and expenditure of Parliament in the third Quarter of 2016/17 (1 October 2016 and 31 December 2016). It was reported that Parliament achieved 46 percent of its targets for the period, while 54 percent were ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
SABC Board Inquiry Interim Report: consideration of responses
14 Feb 2017
The Committee met to discuss the responses to the Committee’s Interim Report from the affected parties. The Committee had received written submissions from four people: SABC8, Mr Phil Molefe, Mr Dumile Mateza and Mr Sipho Masinga. The deadline for comments (submissions) into the Committee's draft report is Thursday, 16 February ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Interim Committee report: adoption
27 Jan 2017
The Committee met for the adoption of the draft report on the SABC inquiry.
Firstly, the Committee noted the intimidation and attacks that the “SABC 8” continued to be subjected to. All parties condemned this strongly and agreed that the Minister of Police and SAPS should update the Committee on ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Committee Report: further deliberations
26 Jan 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on the second version of its draft report into the SABC Inquiry. Members were asked to give their final inputs in written form to be assimilated into the report which would be sent to relevant parties for comment. Some changes made related to the introduction ...