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Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act Amendment Draft Bill: briefing on public comment
20 Mar 2018
The Parliamentary Legal Adviser responded about comments and proposals received during the public participation process. A number of submissions challenged the constitutional validity of empowering the Auditor-General (AG) to issue a certificate of debt and to collect that debt. It was felt that to empower the AG in that way ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA, National School of Government, Centre for Public Service Innovation + Public Service Commission Quarter 3 performance; with Deputy Minister
28 Feb 2018
The Public Service Commission presented on its third quarter performance.
93% of its planned targets were achieved in quarter three. A vacancy rate of 8.6% was maintained, 83% of the grievances finalised, 73% of public administration cases finalised and 100% of the National Anti-Corruption Hotline cases were referred. The remaining ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Committee Reports
7 Feb 2018
The meeting sought to deliberate the Committee’s programme for the first term which would focus on completing the consultation process for the Draft Public Audit Amendment Bill which was currently in the public domain. The closing date for submissions from the public was 19 February 2018. This would be followed ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Appointment of the External Auditor for AGSA; Committee Reports
24 Nov 2017
There was a briefing by the Chairperson of the Audit Committee of AG on the appointment of the External Auditor. The AG was really struggling to get a new external auditor and one of the reasons for that was because the AG is contracted to a lot of private firms. There ...
Public Service and Administration
Presidential Hotline Report; Budget cuts impact; Public sector salary negotiations
22 Nov 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Committee on the operation, successes and challenges faced by the Presidential Hotline. The Hotline was part of the government’s monitoring tools, and allowed it to feed citizen-collected data into the policy system, to change programmes and monitor the quality of ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Review of the Public Audit Act: seeking permission to proceed with amendments to Act
16 Nov 2017
The Committee met to approve to a new amendment to the Public Audit Act. The new provision would provide for the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) and National Treasury (NT) to annually agree on the amount of audit fees that could be defrayed from Treasury.
In addition, the Committee approved ...
Public Service and Administration
Department response to Mpumalanga oversight recommendations; Limpopo and Mpumalanga progress on oversight recommendations
15 Nov 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration on the progress made on the signing of performance agreements by Heads of Departments (HoDs) in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, and on the 30-day payment of suppliers.
The DPME reported it had achieved a ...
Public Service and Administration
DPME, NYDA, Stats SA & DPSA Quarter 2 performance; with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2017
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Committee on its performance and financial information for the second quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year. The Agency’s achieved 65% of its year to date targets, which equated to 14 of 21 targets being achieved under the second quarter. NYDA spent 95% ...
Small Business Development
Elbowing small enterprises by big companies: Huawei, Cell C, Telkom, MTN, Vodacom, Ericsson; with Minister
25 Oct 2017
Document Presented:
Brief by Portfolio Committee on Small Business development on economic transformation [awaited]
The Committee on Small Business Development met to discuss feedback on non-payment of Boniswa Corporate Solutions invoices by Cell C; maintenance of contracts between big business Ericsson and small businesses Neala Trading Company and Mobile Diesel ...
Public Service and Administration
Minister on HoD performance agreements/evaluations & retention/time served; Political Administrative Interface; PSC Amendment Bill; Chairperson election
25 Oct 2017
Minister Faith Muthambi said the average time spent by HoDs in their positions was a performance indicator for the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF).
The Acting Director General of the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) discussed the statistics for the average time spent by Heads of Department in ...