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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress in procurement of alternative payment services: hearing
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and Portfolio Committee on Social Development had a joint meeting in which the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) was interrogated on the procurement processes followed by SASSA in acquiring service providers to render a revised grants payment system.
The Committee expressed discontent ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Women in the Presidency Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
18 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus Steering Committee allowed the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency to meet briefly to adopt the Budget Review Recommendations Report.
The Secretariat presented the draft report. A concern had been raised in the Committee that even ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
International Women’s Conference: Report
18 Oct 2017
The Committee discussed a report on the recently held International Women’s Conference and the Changing World of Work – Giving Effect to the Sixty-First Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Conference Report. Key issues at the Conference included the Poverty Trends in South Africa Report released by ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcomes 2016/17: Auditor-General briefing
17 Oct 2017
The report of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2016/17 financial year showed that there had been little improvement over the past four years in the most common areas of qualification among the government departments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which it had audited. What was of concern was ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Women in the Presidency Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency’ Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR), considering the Department of Women in the Presidency’s Annual Report and consequent matters that emerged. In the meeting, it was mostly observations and recommendations of the BRRR that were discussed, however, other concerns were raised and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women 2016/17 Annual Report: Committee Staff briefing
10 Oct 2017
Committee Members met for the first hour, after which the Department of Women was meant to attend for a discussion on their Annual Report. Because the Department was running late, the meeting was adjourned early, leaving time only for a presentation on the analysis and assessment of the Report by ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency + CGE 2016/17 Annual Reports, with AGSA, Researcher and Content Adviser input
4 Oct 2017
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the budget review and recommendations process, which focused on ensuring that strategically, accountability was achieved and service was delivered accordingly. It highlighted that based on the financial statements of the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE), the AG had issued ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
6 Sep 2017
Documents handed out: Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit [All Committee reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Joint Oversight Report was adopted with amendments that included comments made by the members of the Portfolio Committee of Women in the Presidency, the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 1 performance
5 Sep 2017
Still basking in the glory of Women’s Month and being showered with compliments, it was a good encounter for the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) briefing the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency. Not having the clout it should, as a Constitutionally Established Body, was a major concern. The ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
South African Airways & National Treasury hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Deputy Minister
23 Aug 2017
The Committee met with South African Airways (SAA) to discuss the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure accrued by the airliner in 2015/16.
SAA reported that it remained undercapitalised since being moved from Transnet in the 1990s. Undercapitalisation was a legacy problem and SAA had received R19.1 billion worth of guarantees. ...