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Free State & Gauteng 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
22 Jun 2018
The Select Committee on Finance (National Council of Provinces) was briefed by the National Treasury and the Free State and Gauteng provincial treasuries on their preliminary 2017/18 budget outcomes.
National Treasury (NT) focused on health and education matters in the Free State. Problems highlighted included the low throughput pass rates ...
NCOP Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: briefing; Committee Report on 2018 Appropriation Bill
20 Jun 2018
The 2018 Appropriation Bill was presented to the Select Committee on Appropriations by National Treasury, in line with the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act of 2009 which required the tabling before the National Council of Provinces and the National Assembly of the fiscal framework and revenue proposals, ...
NCOP Finance
KwaZulu-Natal 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
19 Jun 2018
The National Treasury reported that in KZN there were overall fiscal risks pertaining to education and health, and high accruals. Capacity enhancements, better planning and project execution skills had to be sought by departments to reduce under-spending, especially of conditional grants. Thirteen out of 15 departments had under-spent, largely in ...
Ad Hoc Committee on North West Intervention
Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on North West intervention, with Ministers and Deputy Ministers
14 Jun 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee met to receive its first diagnostic summary report from the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the intervention in the North West Provincial Government in terms of Section 100 of the Constitution. The meeting was attended by the Minister in the Presidency, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, the Ministers of ...
NCOP Appropriations
Provincial Disaster Grant performance 2017/18 Quarter 4: hearing; with COGTA Minister
13 Jun 2018
The Committee heard that the disaster relief grant had been introduced during the 2010/11 financial year and was administered by the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG), in consultation with the National Treasury. The main objective of the grant was to respond to the immediate needs after a disaster had occurred ...
NCOP Finance
Mpumalanga 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
12 Jun 2018
The National Treasury reported that there were fiscal risks and high accruals in Mpumalanga’s Departments of Education and Health. Improved infrastructure delivery, capacity enhancement, and better planning and project execution skills had to be sought to reduce under-spending, especially of conditional grants. Irregular expenditure and medico-legal claims were a challenge ...
NCOP Appropriations
Human Settlements Grant 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) allocation for the 2017/18 financial year amounted to R19.9 billion, which was a R1.6 billion increase over the previous year. The grant was allocated through the HSDG allocation formula approved by the Human Settlements Ministers and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC) and National Treasury. ...
NCOP Finance
Western Cape 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
5 Jun 2018
Documents handed out: Committee research document (not available to the public)
National Treasury reported that there were fiscal risks in education and health, and high accruals. Skills capacity had to improve for project execution, along with improved planning skills to reduce underspending, especially with conditional grants. Total underspending amounted to ...
Ad Hoc Committee on North West Intervention
Election of Chairperson; Mandate of Committee
31 May 2018
President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Inter-Ministerial Task Team on North-West
A new ad hoc committee was established to inquire on the intervention in North West (NW) Provincial Government. Members of the Committee met to elect Chairperson of the Committee. Mr De Beer was elected as the new chairperson of the ...
NCOP Appropriations
School Sanitation Audit; Education Infrastructure expenditure; with Minister
30 May 2018
The School Sanitation Audit was presented as a work in progress. This was in response to the President's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities after the March 2018 drowning of Lumka Mketwa in a pit toilet at an Eastern Cape primary school. In 2014 Michael Kompane also lost ...