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Social Development
SASSA progress report; Department of Social Development 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance
6 Jun 2018
Members were briefed by the Department of Social Development on its performance report for Quarter 4 and SASSA. Neither the Minister, Deputy Minister nor the Director General were present for this briefing which was the last before a the two month extended recess where this oversight committee returns only on ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 National Budget Dialogue
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to consider the draft report on the 2018 National Budget Dialogue, and to approve the minutes of its May meetings and its programme for the third term. Members discussed the inputs from stakeholders, and identified typographical and grammatical errors which they corrected with the Committee staff.
Highlights ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works Quarter 3 & 4 performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to hear a briefing on the third and fourth quarter performance of the DPW, and while some Members were impressed with parts of the presentation, the Department met with strong skepticism on some aspects of its reporting.
Expressing open suspicion that some performance targets had been manipulated, ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development Quarter 3 performance
30 May 2018
The Chairperson informed Members that the Committee would not be dealing with the referral on the Children’s Amendment Bill because the Bill had been withdrawn. There had been no opposing submissions, but Parliament would not be accepting new Bills.
The meeting commenced with a discussion on the South Africa Social ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Contract Extension of Parliament Budget Office Director
24 May 2018
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations met to consider and adopt the Report of the Contract Extension of Parliamentary Budget Office Director. Members were taken through processes surrounding this action. The proposal was that the contract of the Director be extended for three months after the 2019 ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) turnaround programme: Public Works status report, with Minister
22 May 2018
The Property Management and Trading Entity (PMTE) of the Department of Public Works (DPW) gave the Committee an update on the current state of its turnaround programme, which was aimed at operationalising the entity and placing it firmly on the path to financial sustainability. The briefing sought to establish three ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development & NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
2 May 2018
The Committee received presentations on the Annual Performance Plans and budgets of the Department of Social Development and its two agencies that day following the preliminary discussions of the previous week.
The concerns of the previous week had been resolved. The responsibility for the Annual Performance Plan lay with the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
SAA & SA Post Office recapitalisation: performance progress report
25 Apr 2018
In his opening remarks, the Deputy Finance Minister acknowledged that South African Airways (SAA) had a financial and corporate governance and operational model crisis. These problems needed urgent attention. Unless these problems were sorted out, it would be difficult to accommodate new ideas. The path to recovery for SAA had ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development & NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan (postponed)
25 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee met for a briefing by the National Development Agency on its Annual Performance Plan and the budget for the 2018/19 financial year. However, the presentation did not take place as the meeting was postponed before the presentation was made as the Committee and the Minister of Social ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
DPW, CBE, CIDB, PMTE, IDT, and Agrement SA on Annual Performance Plans, with Minister and Deputy Minister
24 Apr 2018
The governance crisis at the Independent Development Trust loomed large when the Department of Public Works, led Minister, Mr Thulas Nxesi; Deputy Minister Mr Jeremy Cronin and the Director General, Adv Sam Vukela, and all its entities briefed the Committee at the Townhouse Hotel in Cape Town. The Minister told ...