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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcomes 2016/17: Auditor-General briefing
17 Oct 2017
The report of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2016/17 financial year showed that there had been little improvement over the past four years in the most common areas of qualification among the government departments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which it had audited. What was of concern was ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on National Departments Quarter 4 performance
4 Oct 2017
The purpose of the meeting of the Standing Committee on Appropriations was to consider and adopt the Committee’s Report on the Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns of National Departments for the 2016-17 Financial Year.
There was a concern that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs had underspent it allocated funding. One of ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on KZN Oversight Visit; Committee Operational Plan
3 Oct 2017
Documents handed out:
Committee Report on its KwaZulu-Natal oversight visit
Committee Operational Plan
Committee Programme [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
It is not known where the money for the free education for the poor is going to come from. This came up during the meeting’s discussions. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on Quarter 1 performance & Integrated Financial Management System
8 Sep 2017
National Treasury and the Integrated Financial Management System briefed the Committee on the 2017/18 quarter one departmental spending outcomes.
National Treasury indicated that the 2017 Appropriation Act allocated R765.3 billion to national departments for the 2017/18 financial year (excluding Parliament). At the end of the first quarter, national departments had ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 4: Performance Hearing; with Deputy Minister
6 Sep 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (including the Water Trading Entity) on its Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns for the 2016/17 financial year.
In 2015 the Department had declared eight provinces as disaster stricken due to the drought and in 2017 had declared the Western Cape ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Public Enterprises Quarter 4 performance: hearing
5 Sep 2017
The Committee met to receive a report from the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for 2016/17 financial year. The Committee was told that the Department had spent 94.7% of its overall budget, and the under-spending of 5.3% had been due to vacancies following the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
PRASA & Department of Transport Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister present
30 Aug 2017
The Department of Transport (DoT) told the Standing Committee on Appropriations that it had achieved 36 of 48 its fourth quarter targets. The achievements had included a DoT risk management strategy; the development of a National Rail Bill; construction and maintenance of provincial roads, monitored in line with the approved ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Correctional Services Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Minister
29 Aug 2017
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) presented its performance report for the fourth quarter of 2016/17, and informed the Portfolio Committee that it had achieved 25 of the 40 targets (63%) of its predetermined objectives. Only programme 2 (Incarceration) had received a qualified audit opinion -- the rest had all ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
DPME Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) outcomes progress: briefing by Minister
15 Aug 2017
The Minister of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation presented the Department’s mid-term review of the implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP), outlining the government’s progress in the implementation of its strategic objectives, identifying programmes that were most at risk in terms of spending, as well as the key challenges and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 4 performance by Departments: analysis
3 Aug 2017
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received presentations by its researchers on the analysis of government departments’ fourth quarter expenditure reports.
The researchers had identified six departments that were of concern. These were the Departments of Public Enterprises, Small Business Development, Basic Education, Water and Sanitation, Correctional Services and Transport. They ...