Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Public Works irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure; Prestige Portfolio report; with Minister and Deputy Minister
29 Aug 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW) presented a report to SCOPA on contracts awarded to four companies where variation orders had been requested, and which the Committee wanted to interrogate. KI Developers had been given a project at a government facility in Cape Town, and a variation had been done ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill: withdrawal, with Deputy Minister
28 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee (PC) met to consider the withdrawal of the Expropriation Bill, with which it had been sitting since 2015. The Chairperson provided a brief background, explaining that the Bill had passed all stages until it reached the former President, who had returned it to Parliament twice to consider ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works Quarter 3 & 4 performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to hear a briefing on the third and fourth quarter performance of the DPW, and while some Members were impressed with parts of the presentation, the Department met with strong skepticism on some aspects of its reporting.
Expressing open suspicion that some performance targets had been manipulated, ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
DPW & Property Management Trading Entity 2018/19 Annual Performance Plans; with Minister & Deputy Minister
23 May 2018
The Department of Public Works and the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) briefed the Committee on their 2018/19 Annual Performance Plans. The Minister and Deputy Minister were in attendance.
In his preliminary remarks, the Minister pointed out that when the Department of Public Works had concluded its turnaround strategy in ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
DPW, CBE, CIDB, PMTE, IDT, and Agrement SA on Annual Performance Plans, with Minister and Deputy Minister
24 Apr 2018
The governance crisis at the Independent Development Trust loomed large when the Department of Public Works, led Minister, Mr Thulas Nxesi; Deputy Minister Mr Jeremy Cronin and the Director General, Adv Sam Vukela, and all its entities briefed the Committee at the Townhouse Hotel in Cape Town. The Minister told ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
“Operation Bring Back”: Progress Report, with Minister & Deputy Minister
20 Mar 2018
The Committee received a progress report from the Department of Public Works on Operation Bring Back (OBB). The Minister and Deputy Minister were present at the meeting.
DPW had started an OBB program during April 2011 which was largely dependent on the public coming forward to report cases of misappropriation ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Assets on immovable asset register: Department briefing with Deputy Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW), accompanied by the Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on the status of different categories of assets on the Immovable Asset Register (IAR) and foreign assets. The Committee heard about the types of assets comprising the DPW property portfolio (IAR), the total value of assets ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Public Works White Papers Review: progress report; with Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Public Works briefed Members of the Portfolio Committee on progress on the much-delayed review of the Department's two White Papers as part of the Annual Performance Plan and Strategic Plan. The delegation was headed by the Deputy Minister of the Department of Public Works, Mr Jeremy Cronin. ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill: stakeholder inputs, with Deputy Minister
30 Jan 2018
This workshop was held to provide further input on the Expropriation Bill [BD4D-2015] that had been referred back to Parliament by the President to enable the Committee to chart a way forward. Input was provided by Parliamentary Legal Office and the Department of Public Works (DPW).
The Chairperson said that ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Parliamentary Villages; Expanded Public Works Programme job creation: Public Works briefing, with Deputy Minister
14 Nov 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Public Works (DPW) on the progress made with the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), and on the status of the prestige accommodation programme at the Parliamentary villages.
The DPW described the progress made since the beginning of the EPWP n 2004, the ...