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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SITA deviations and expansions: hearing
12 Jun 2018
SITA appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) to account for deviations and expansions for 2016/17 and 2017/18. Concerns were raised on deviations for the renewal of licences which were a sign of poor planning. To address the challenge of licences, SITA revealed that it had employed 100 ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Constitution Section 25: Colloquium
8 Jun 2018
YOUTUBE: Constitutional Review Committees colloquium
In search of answers regarding the single most important political question facing South Africa today - land reform through Expropriation Without Compensation - the Joint Standing Committee on Constitutional Review held a colloquium of experts in Parliament.
A former Judge at the Constitutional Court and ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Public Works (DPW) deviations & expansions: hearing
7 Jun 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW) appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) for a hearing which dealt with issues around expansions and deviations, which were meant to assist in very rare and difficult situations. The Committee’s interest was to see figures as low as possible around this ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SARS deviations & expansions: hearing
7 Jun 2018
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) appeared before the Standing Committee of Public Accounts (SCOPA) to explain its requests for deviations and expansions from National Treasury. Some of the matters the Committee raised include the request to send executive staff to Harvard and London Business School (LBS) to capacitate them, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Water and Sanitation & Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority deviations & expansions: hearing with Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and the Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on deviations and expansions in 2016/17. The meeting was however adjourned early, only to reconvene in the afternoon after the Department appeared not to be prepared. Members expressed ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National departments & entities deviations & expansions in 2018: National Treasury report
23 May 2018
National Treasury provided the Committee with a report on the status of deviations and expansions for the third and fourth quarters of 2017/18, where Eskom, the Department of Defence and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) topped the list of entities with the highest levels of deviations and expansions approved. ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Draft Bill: finalisation
22 May 2018
The Public Audit Amendment Bill was initiated by the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General as a Committee Bill. The principal Act of 2004 did not give the Auditor-General the authority to take remedial action, nor to ensure that losses suffered by the State were recovered, where possible. Year on year ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Municipal Debt owed to Eskom: inputs by Eskom, COGTA, SALGA, National Treasury
16 May 2018
SCOPA met with Eskom, Department of Cooperative Governance (COGTA), South African Local Government Association (SALGA), and National Treasury to discuss municipal debts owed to Eskom. The Committee was concerned about the dangers the mounting debt posed to the financial sustainability of Eskom and the economy.
Eskom had reported in its ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance
16 May 2018
The 2017/18 Quarter 4 report showed great progress towards the achievement of the six Strategic Outcome Oriented goals envisaged by the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan of the Fifth Parliament. Of a total of 19 performance indicators, only five have not met the targets. One of these indicators is for the timely ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Draft Bill: consideration
11 May 2018
The Committee was briefed on drafting changes to the Bill based on the Committee’s suggestions at its previous meeting:
• The definition of executive authority had been revised and that, generally, executive authority was used in reference to national ministers, but legal services had introduced a catch-all phrase to ensure ...