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Finance Standing Committee
2022 Budget: FFC & PBO briefing
1 Mar 2022
2022 Budget Speech & Key Documents
In this virtual meeting, Parliament’s finance and appropriations committees from both houses met jointly with the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FC) and the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) to discuss the 2022 Budget.
The PBO informed the Committee it was unclear whether the 2022 ...
Finance Standing Committee
Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation Report: Financial Intelligence Centre briefing
15 Feb 2022
The Standing Committee on Finance was briefed by officials from National Treasury and the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) on the mutual evaluation of South Africa’s Anti-Money and Laundering and Combating of the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) system.
Members were informed that the country ...
Finance Standing Committee
Audit Action Plans for Finance Portfolio; with Deputy Minister
8 Feb 2022
The Standing Committee on Finance met on a virtual platform for a briefing from National Treasury and financial entities on their action plans relating to their audit outcomes for the 2020/21 financial year. The entities present were the Land Bank, the Government Pensions Administration Authority, ...
Finance Standing Committee
Finance Minister on R11 billion World Bank loan
1 Feb 2022
Media Statement: World Bank Loan to South Africa
The Standing Committee on Finance was briefed by the Minister of Finance, Mr Enoch Godongwana, on the recent R11 billion loan (approximately $750 million) from the World Bank. There had been a request from a Member to the Chairperson to request ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pension Funds Amendment Bill: Pension Funds Amendment Bill: Committee Report on Motion of Desirability
7 Dec 2021
In this virtual meeting, the Committee convened to consider and adopt its Committee Report on the Motion of Desirability on the Pension Funds Amendment Bill B30-2020.
The report noted that this Private Member’s Bill which was introduced in Parliament in November 2020 by Dr Dion George MP. The Committee had ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pension Funds Amendment Bill: Consideration of Motion of Desirability
1 Dec 2021
The Portfolio Committee on Finance met to consider a motion of desirability on the Pension Funds Amendment Bill [B30 – 2020]. This was a Private Member’s Bill which was introduced in Parliament in November 2020 by Dr Dion George MP. The Committee had held public hearings on 19 May ...
Finance Standing Committee
National Treasury & SARS Budget Review and Recommendation Report
30 Nov 2021
2021 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
In this virtual meeting, the Committee considered the 2021 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for National Treasury and the South African Revenue Services.
The meeting focused on the observations and recommendations in the Report. The report was adopted but a few ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence: engagement with lead departments
25 Nov 2021
The Multiparty Women’s Caucus met to receive briefings on the Implementation of Pillar 2: Prevention, Rebuilding, and Social Cohesion in terms of the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) National Strategic Plan. The Caucus heard from the Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD); Department of Social Development ...
Finance Standing Committee
Tax Bills & Rates Bill: finalisation
24 Nov 2021
The Standing Committee on Finance considered and adopted the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill and the accompanying reports.
National Treasury requested an additional amendment be made to the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill. The Minister ...
Finance Standing Committee
2021 Revised Fiscal Framework: Committee Report
23 Nov 2021
The Standing Committee on Finance and Select Committee on Finance considered the Committee Report on the 2021 Revised Fiscal Framework.
Members of the Democratic Alliance (DA) agreed that there was a problem with power generation. Power outages continually interrupted the economy and therefore interrupted economic growth. ...