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Finance Standing Committee
Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Parliamentary Budget Office review
27 Oct 2015
The Parliamentary Budget Office provided an analysis of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement for 2015 to a joint meeting attended by the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations and the Standing and Select Committees on Finance.
The Parliamentary Budget Office generally echoed the concerns contained in National Treasury’s budget policy ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Minister of Finance briefing
22 Oct 2015
The Minister of Finance and a delegation from the National Treasury met with a joint committee comprising the Standing Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Appropriations. The National Treasury presented the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates Commission on progress reports and provisionally suspended magistrate; Revised Draft Rules for Promotion of Administrative Justice Act; UN Security Council Terrorist Proclamations
2 Sep 2015
The Magistrates Commission presented reports on the progress with disciplinary proceedings involving provisionally suspended magistrates.
In one case, the magistrate was constantly delaying the case, and when he was available, only one witness could attend the hearing to testify. The Commission made it clear that the magistrate was not receiving ...
NCOP Finance
Limpopo post-intervention progress report; Rates & Monetary Amounts Amendment Bill [B15B-15]: briefing
12 Aug 2015
In the first part of the meeting, the Committee was given a full briefing by the Limpopo Intervention Team and administrators, on progress made with the section 100(1)(a) intervention into the Province of Limpopo. The Premier and several MECs were present to give input. Unqualified audit reports were achieved in ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Capacity building in local government: Department, SALGA & SETA briefing; Municipal Managers & Section 56 Managers Appointment: implementation of regulations progress report
9 Jun 2015
Briefing on capacity building in local government
The Department of Cooperative Governance (COGTA) said that in terms of transformation standards there was still a long way to go towards functionality. A lot of resources had been spent on capacity development without yielding an impact in terms of providing the capacity ...
NCOP Finance
Financial and Fiscal Commission Amendment Bill [B1-2015]: negotiating mandates; Committee reports: New Development Bank & Treaty for Establishment of BRICS Contingent Reserve arrangement
3 Jun 2015
The provincial legislatures read out their negotiating mandates in respect of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) Amendment Bill. This Bill received support from Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KZN, Northern Cape and Limpopo without any amendments.
Mpumalanga was generally in favour of the Bill but suggested that clause 6 be amended, ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Fuzane Petition (Alleged assaults on child whilst in a public hospital): hearing continued
3 Jun 2015
The Committee continued with its hearing on the petition lodged by Ms Nobuntu Fuzane in relation to her daughter Tamara’s treatment at Groote Schuur Hospital on 1 August 2011 and at Khayelitsha Hospital in February 2014. Members asked clarity-seeking questions of the delegation from the Department of Health of Western ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Minister & Department of Small Business Development on 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
19 May 2015
Minister of Small Business Development, Lindiwe Zulu, said women were a priority and should not be limited to the lower sections of the Department. She was committed to the empowerment of women and gender equality. DSBD was conscious that the given budget was a challenge but it would work with ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Labour briefing on its Strategic Plan postponed
12 May 2015
The Department of Labour was scheduled to brief the Committee on its Stategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan and budget for the current financial year. However the meeting was cancelled due to the absence of the Minister, Deputy Minister and the Director-General and without apologies from the two prinicipals. Members deemed ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Economic Development Department on its 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plan, in presence of Minister
6 May 2015
The Minister, Deputy Minister and Department of Economic Development (EDD) briefed the Committee on the 2015 Annual and Strategic Plans. The Minister noted the importance of considering national and provincial development together, and said that NCOP was a key organ in ensuring oversight at provincial levels. The country had to ...