Committee Programme & Minutes

Meeting report

The Chairperson, proposed the adoption of all the outstanding 2020 minutes.

Ms O Maotwe (EFF) said that the minutes were supposed to be adopted one by one, as opposed to a blanket adoption, as this would defeat the whole purpose. Each minute must reflect who adopted and who seconded. The Committee should go through each set of minutes one by one.

Ms J Tshabalala (ANC) said she welcomed the Committee’s 2021 first term programme. She proposed that for the meeting scheduled for 17 February, where the Committee was going to be briefed by Eskom, load shedding should be added to the items that Eskom would brief the Committee on.

Mr G Cachalia (DA) said that in the Committee’s 2021 first term programme, there was no input from South African Airways (SAA), or from the business rescue practitioners.

The Committee Secretary referred to the first meeting on 3 February, and said the Committee was looking forward to the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) giving an update on SAA and South African Express Airways. If the Committee required a meeting directly with the business rescue practitioners, it could engage them.

Mr E Buthelezi (IFP) asked about the postponement of the oversight visits, and whether they would be postponed indefinitely. Why would they be postponed, considering that Level Three Covid-19 lockdown rules did not suggest a total elimination of all activities?

The Chairperson said that the postponement of the oversight visits had nothing to with the lockdown regulations, but was rather because of the pending adoption of the 2020 minutes. The Chair of Chairs had asked the Committee to first adopt the outstanding 2020 minutes before proceeding with the oversight visits.

The Committee Secretary said that the second reason why oversight visits had been postponed was because of the reservations of certain Committee Members, who were uncomfortable about proceeding with the visits because of the current state of the pandemic. The Members could always advise the Committee as to when they would be comfortable about carrying out the visits.

Adoption of minutes

The Committee Secretary presented the outstanding minutes for 2020. These were for the meetings of 2 September; 3 June; 8 July; 11 November; 20 May; 17 June; 18 November; 20 May; 25 November; 2 June; 4 November; 6 May; 10 June; 15 July; 19 June; 18 October; 24 June; 19 August; 27 May; 31 June; 3 February; 17 February and 17 March.

All of the minutes were adopted without amendments.

Adoption of first term programme

The Committee was briefed by the Secretary on the 2021 first term programme. This was adopted, subject to minor amendments

The meeting was adjourned.