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Public Works and Infrastructure
Workshop with Office of Auditor-General, Financial & Fiscal Commission & Department of Performance Monitoring & Evaluation in preparation for BRRR process
25 Sep 2014
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) presented a workshop to the Public Works Portfolio Committee on how to understand audit outcomes better, so that it would be capacitated to perform its oversight function more ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on 1st Quarter Performance for 2014/15
16 Sep 2014
The Department of Public Works (DPW) said this was the first time they had presented a quarterly report after a substantial outcome from their stabilisation phase. A report on the turnaround had been presented to Cabinet and endorsed. It was seven-year turnaround plan. For the first part of their stabilisation ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Independent Development Trust and Deputy Minister on IDT's way forward
26 Aug 2014
With the Public Works Deputy Minister in attendance, the IDT presented its Strategic Plan for the period 2014/15-2018/19. The presentation focused on the current restructuring of the organisation which had been sparked by the almost complete depletion of their endowment funds. Until the financial crisis, IDT had implemented its projects ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Construction Industry Development Board & Council for the Built Environment on their 2014 Strategic plans, in presence of Deputy Minister
29 Jul 2014
The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) presented its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans for 2014/15, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Public Works. CIDB had a strong focus on making amendments to regulations, particularly to identify and effect further improvements to contractor registration criteria, taking into account the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Public Works 201 Budget
10 Jul 2014
The Committee met to consider the draft budget report and adopt it. The Members proposed that certain information be added to the report to make it clearer to the reader when the meeting with the Department happened and which entities were within the Department and what legislation governed those entities. ...
Public Enterprises
Committee Section briefings on budget vote process, sector overview; Department of Public Enterprises briefing
2 Jul 2014
In the morning session, the Committee Section presented four documents for information of the Committee, around the budget vote process, the sector analysis, an overview of the financial year and an analysis of the role and budget of the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) and the State Owned Companies (SOCs) ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Processing of budget votes, Role Clarification, Department's Strategic Plan: briefings by Committee Secretary, Researcher and Content Advisor
1 Jul 2014
The Committee Secretary, the Committee Researcher and the Content Advisor present on clarification of the Portfolio Committee’s role, the process it was expected to follow when dealing with the budget votes, as well as on the legacy left behind by the previous Committee. Oversight issues that had emerged during the ...
Public Enterprises
Election of Chairperson; Committee Programme
25 Jun 2014
The Committee elected Ms D Letsatsi-Duba as Chairperson.
The next meeting of the Committee would be on 2 July when it would be briefed by the committee researcher on how the Budget Vote worked, on the sector and an analysis of the Budget. In the afternoon, the Department of Public ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Election of Chairperson
24 Jun 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Public Works met to elect its Chairperson. Mr B Martins (ANC) was elected unopposed as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works. Mr Martins urged Members to work together and set aside their political differences so as to prioritize on serving the South African citizens. ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Infrastructure Development Bill: Final mandates; Mineral & Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill: Negotiating mandates; Committee Legacy Report
25 Mar 2014
Provinces were asked to present their final mandates on the Infrastructure Development Bill, but the meeting had to be postponed twice whilst the outstanding mandates were awaited. Eventually, it was noted that Western Cape had opposed the Bill. Free State and Gauteng were only holding hearings on the Bill that ...