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Finance, Economic Opportunities and Tourism (WCPP)
Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board; Provincial Treasury: Quarter 2 & 3 & 4 performance
20 Jun 2018
The meeting held by the Standing Committee on Finance was divided into two parts. In the first part, there was a briefing by the Provincial Treasury on its quarterly performance report, in which it gave a breakdown of expenditure as at 31 March 2018 for its four programmes -- administration; ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
Department of Transport & Public Works debt mitigation; CIDB Grade 9 tender risks; CIDB Grades 1 & 2 service providers
20 Jun 2018
The Department of Transport and Public Works (DTPW) briefed the Committee on the issues raised in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) annual report, and focused on three areas:
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
Virements monitoring: Department of the Premier briefing
13 Jun 2018
The Committee met with the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of the Premier, Western Cape Province, to be briefed on the guidelines to the use of virements. The intention was to empower Committee Members to be able to understand the principles and process of virements so that Members could ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
Western Cape Education Department: irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure investigations & minimisation; accruals & overpayments
6 Jun 2018
The Committee received an update from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) on how far implementation had gone regarding the Internal Audit Committee’s recommendations made during the 2016/17 financial year to improve the Department’s work across a number of areas. The briefing also took the time to deliberate on more ...
Finance, Economic Opportunities and Tourism (WCPP)
Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board report on Gambling Industry tax collection & training programme
6 Jun 2018
The Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board (WCGRB) briefed the Committee on a three year on-going staff training programme on auditing and other regulatory activities, following an agreement between the Board and the International Gaming Institute of the University of Las Vegas (UNLV). Currently, such training did not exist in ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
Department of Health electronic systems for performance reporting; asset management; salary overpayments & recovery
16 May 2018
Members of the Committee heard a briefing by the Western Cape Department of Health on the roll out of an electronic filing system to improve reliability of information on reported performance; the User Asset Management Plan (U-AMP) including all associated costs and challenges relating to the upgrading and eradication of ...
Finance, Economic Opportunities and Tourism (WCPP)
Preferential Procurement Process: Provincial Treasury briefing; WC Gambling & Racing Board accommodation: Public Works status report
16 May 2018
The Provincial Western Cape Department of Public Works and Treasury briefed the Committee on the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board’s (WCGRB’s) accommodation and Preferential Procurement Processes. The Department conceded that no responses were received when an expression of interest was published for a suitable accommodation that met the user ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
​Department of Community Safety on Wolwekloof Academy 2014/15 financial year
9 May 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Finance, Economic Opportunities and Tourism (WCPP)
Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board's accommodation & R18.6 million distribution to Kenilworth Racecourse: Treasury briefing
4 May 2018
The Provincial Treasury briefed the Committee on the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board’s (WCGRB’s) accommodation. In collaboration with the Department of Transport and Public Works (DTPW), it had investigated a number of options to address the Board’s accommodation needs. Available options, such as improvements to the current space utilisation ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
Emerging risks in Quarter 1 & 2 of 2017/18; Internal Control challenges in Economic Audit Committee Cluster
18 Apr 2018
The Committee was briefed on the risks facing the departments in the economic cluster, which included the Departments of Economic Development and Tourism, Agriculture and Environmental Affairs and Development Planning. The risks identified were classified under strategic and programme risks. Emerging and continuing transversal risks for the departments included the ...