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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: Human Sciences Research Council briefing
7 Nov 2018
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on their overall assessment of the 2018 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It highlighted that the spending priorities included reducing poverty and inequality, and increasing employment and inclusive growth. It stressed the need for an improvement in spending efficiency, government capacity ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: Public Service Commission input
6 Nov 2018
The Public Service Commission observed that a detailed and integrated planning across departments was needed for economic recovery. Stronger oversight of state-owned entities (SoEs) was needed. There had to be better support systems for underperforming departments, through better alignment between planning and performance management systems. Informed decisions had to be ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS: SALGA input
31 Oct 2018
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) briefed the Committee on their response to the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It focused on the macro economic climate and said that the MTBPS had three key priorities.
The first one was implementing the economic stimulus and recovery plan launched ...
Finance Standing Committee
2018 MTBPS: Parliamentary Budget Office & FFC briefing
30 Oct 2018
Statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on economic stimulus and recovery plan
DPE Mandate Paper for Budget 2018
National Development Plan 2030: Our future - make it work
2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
MTPBS Speech & Money Bills
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance together with the Standing ...
Finance Standing Committee
2018 MTBPS: Minister of Finance briefing; with Deputy Minister present
25 Oct 2018
2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
MTPBS Speech & Money Bills
The Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations together with the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriation met for the MTBPS (medium-term budget policy statement) briefing with National Treasury in the presence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on Free State oversight & Smart Procurement World Indaba
17 Oct 2018
The Committee convened to consider the reports on its oversight visit to the Free State, and the 12th Annual Smart Procurement World Indaba. Both reports were adopted.
Minutes from 9 and 10 October were considered and adopted.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 Expenditure Patterns of National Departments; SALGA innovative financing for municipal infrastructure conference
16 Oct 2018
The Committee met to consider the Report on Quarter 1 Expenditure Patterns of National Departments and the Report on the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) conference.
Both reports were adopted with amendments..
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2017/18: Auditor General briefing
10 Oct 2018
A joint meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing by the Auditor-General (AG) on the 2017/18 audit outcomes.
A total of 434 government departments and state-owned enterprises were audited. Only 25% received clean audits compared to last year when ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department, Land Bank & ARC Quarter 1 performances: hearing; with Minister
14 Sep 2018
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Land Bank and Agricultural Research Council (ARC) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on their first quarter budget expenditure and performance. The Minister was in attendance.
The Department spent R370m from a total budget of R923m for the first quarter ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Energy Quarter 1 performance: hearing
12 Sep 2018
The Department of Energy(DoE) presented its first quarter expenditure report for the current financial year, and said it had been allocated an annual budget of R7.45 billion, of which R617 million was for the operation of the Department. The balance was allocated to transfer payments which went to public entities ...