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Rural tourism development: progress report
21 Feb 2018
Briefing by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on progress of rural tourism development
One of the goals for rural tourism development was to create a platform to share knowledge of best practice, development opportunities and challenges in rural areas for tourism development. The Rural Tourism Strategy called for the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill: hearings
24 Nov 2017
A joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations received opinions and recommendations from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) group on the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) and the Adjustments Appropriation Bill.
The meeting started on a contentious note, ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy statement (MTBPS) 2017: public hearings
1 Nov 2017
Cosatu submitted that there was no meaningful plan to arrest the collapse of the economy and the looting of the state, and to spur economic growth to create jobs. Unemployment had nearly doubled since 2014 to a real rate of 36.2%. More than R100 billion of the state’s trillion rand ...
Finance Standing Committee
2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
31 Oct 2017
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) appeared before the joint committees of Finance and Appropriations (National Assembly and National Council of Provinces) to give a post Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) analysis.
The PBO noted that performance of key macroeconomic variables over the past five years has not been impressive. The ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pre-MTBPS briefing by Parliamentary Budget Office
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations together with the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations were briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the pre-Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The briefing was meant to assist Members in identifying focus areas in relation to the MTBPS presentation by ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Report on Study Tour to Malaysia; Fourth Term Committee Programme
13 Sep 2017
The Committee discussed and approved its study tour report on the visit to Malaysia.
Members had an overall positive and good impression of their visit to Malaysia and felt that it was a conducive and a high level engagement.
The Committee received a briefing on its draft Fourth Term Programme. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: FFC submission
12 Sep 2017
The FFC told the Committee that it had focused on urban areas for the current year, after focusing on the rural areas in the previous year. It was unclear if the SA economic growth pattern was pro-poor. The SA workforce was predominantly urban-based. Inequality was high in the metros. Improved ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Report on OR Tambo District Municipality referral
28 Jun 2017
The draft report on the OR Tambo district municipality referral was read through by the Chairperson.
The Acting Chairperson highlighted that the National and Provincial Treasuries; the Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, and the Department of Cooperative Governance, had waited too long to intervene to support and strengthen ...
NCOP Finance
Free State 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury report
7 Jun 2017
The National Treasury briefed the Committee on provincial budgets and expenditure for the fourth quarter, 2016/17. There was overspending on compensation of employees (CoE), and underspending on goods and services and infrastructure related conditional grants in the social sector, especially in education and social development. The Department of Education overspent ...
NCOP Appropriations
OR Tambo District Municipality appeal against stopping its MIG allocation
6 Jun 2017
Documents handed out:
Committee research document on OR Tambo District Municipality
The meeting was convened in an attempt to resolve a problem experienced by the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape as a result of the stoppage by Treasury of R90 million that had been allocated in terms ...
NCOP Appropriations
Early Childhood Development Grant: Department of Social Development presentation
23 May 2017
There was a lot of concern about the figures for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Grant, mainly because there was no costing allocated to children with disabilities. The Committee emphasised that the idea of putting off disability costing when doing grants was highly exclusionary. The Department of Social Development (DSD) ...
NCOP Finance
Financial Sector Regulation Bill & Committee Report on Bill: adoption
10 May 2017
The Committee met for the formal consideration and adoption of the Committee Report on the Financial Sector Regulation Bill.
Members firstly considered the “C” version of the Bill where the focus was specifically on the constitutionality of clause 137. National Treasury was of the view that the entire Bill was ...