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Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Human Settlements & Department of Water and Sanitation 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance
19 Nov 2019
The Department of Human Settlements and the Department of Water and Sanitation reported on their performance for the second quarter of the 2019/20 financial year.
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) said it had spent R12.9 billion of its R33.8 billion allocation. This included the transfers to metros and provinces, ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Turnaround strategy & War on Leaks project: Department briefing with the Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation. There was a slight delay to the start of the meeting as Members debated whether to start without the presence of the Minister or Deputy Minister. The Minister and Deputy arrived late and apologised before becoming fully ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Municipal Water Debt solutions; with Deputy Ministers
5 Nov 2019
This was a continuation of the 29 October joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs about resolving municipal debt to water boards which has been increasing at an alarming rate. The Committees interrogated the presentations made ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Debt owed to water boards: input from COGTA, SALGA, National Treasury & DWS
29 Oct 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs were jointly briefed about resolving the debt of municipalities to the water boards.
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) spoke on the role it played to assist municipalities in ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report 2019
25 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
The Committee considered and adopted the Committee's Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Human Settlements.
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on outstanding debt owed to entities
22 Oct 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Committee on the efforts being made to recover funds owed to entities responsible for ensuring a supply of water to South Africa’s urban and rural communities. The municipalities’ water-use debt to the Water Trading Entity (WTE) and water boards had escalated by ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
HDA & SHRA 2018/19 Annual Reports
15 Oct 2019
The governance of the entities of the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation was keeping the Minister awake at night.
Mr Joseph Leshabane, Acting Director-General in the Department of Human Settlements, made this revelation during the discussion with the Portfolio Committee on the Housing Development Agency ...
Health
Health Sector 2018/19 Annual Reports, with AGSA, SAMRC, and FFC input
10 Oct 2019
Four entities of the Department of Health – the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO), the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) and the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) -- presented their annual reports to the Committee.
The SAMRC provided ...
Health
NHI Bill public hearings programme; Auditor General expanded mandate
19 Sep 2019
NHI: Tracking the Bill through Parliament
Auditor General South Africa capacitated the Committee on the mandate of the Auditor General, its prior limitations and the implications of the new powers given in the Public Audit Amendment Act which came into operation on 1 April 2019. These would give the AG ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Workshop on Money Bills and Related Matters Act; Training on “My Parliament APP”; 3rd Term Programme
17 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed on the Money Bills and other Related Matters Act 2009. The Act has established Finance and Appropriation Committees in the two Houses, and the Act gives certain rules and regulations regarding composition of the Committees, the election of the Chairpersons, and the functions of the Committees. ...