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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
30 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met to hear and deliberate about the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
The meeting was told that PRASA was the most worst performing government entity when it came to irregular expenditure. Transparency had been ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with the Minister in attendance
29 Nov 2016
The committee interrogated the board of the South African National Road Agency (SANRAL) on the R1.1 billion in expenditure for the current financial year which did not comply with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), despite the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) having found that between the years ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
23 Nov 2016
The Minister of Social Development, the Auditor General and the Hawks were present for the hearing on of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA).
SASSA was asked to explain the irregular expenditure involving R316 million (CPS contract), R414 million (physical security), R233 million ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL & COGTA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Ministerial input
16 Nov 2016
The Committee interrogated the fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure reported by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) in relation to the financial statements for 2015/16, for the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). The Deputy Minister of Transport, and the Minister and ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Military Veterans, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure
15 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) questioned the new Acting Director General (DG) on the high levels of irregular expenditure within the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) which was noted to be the “worst performing department in terms of irregular expenditure” as 21.5% of the DMV budget spending was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education & SITA Annual Reports 2015/16: hearing, with Minister of Education
9 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), with the objective of ensuring that managers did not tolerate this type of expenditure, and would hold officials ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Outstanding 2016 Annual Reports: Departments' reasons for non-submission
1 Nov 2016
The Committee met to discuss the position of the government entities that had not submitted their Annual Reports to Parliament as required. Invitations to appear before SCOPA had been sent to four departments and two entities. The Department of Environmental Affairs was absent, informing the Committee that it was still ...
Arts and Culture
Heritage Foundation forensic report; PanSALB legal standing & way forward; Arts and Culture Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2016
The Committee proceeded with its discussion and adoption of the Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) before turning its attention to the forensic investigation arising from a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and the Heritage Foundation.
Before the BRRR was adopted, a Member ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Films and Publications Amendment Bill [B37-2015]: critical inputs from public hearings
21 Sep 2016
The Committee met to consider critical stakeholder inputs from Parliamentary public hearings into the Films and Publications Amendment Bill, which were presented by the Department of Communications (DOC).
Major issues highlighted by the SA Communications Forum (SACF) included a proposal to substitute the terminology “child pornography” with “child sex abuse ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee programme
20 Sep 2016
The Committee met to consider and adopt the minutes of previous meetings, as well as the fourth term draft programme.
At the outset of considering the adoption of minutes, a Member pointed out that minutes for only six of the possible 21 meetings had been documented. It was agreed that ...