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NCOP Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill[B28-15]; Finance Bill [B31-15]; and New Development Bank Special Appropriations Bill [B32-15]: consideration; Proposed division of revenue and conditional grant allocations to provinces and local government: consideration
25 Nov 2015
The National Treasury briefed the Committee on the New Development Bank Appropriation Bill. The New Development Bank (the Bank) is a multilateral development bank,whose members in the first instance will be the BRICS countries as equal partners, with the purpose of mobilising alternative sources of financing, in the form of ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: final mandates; Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
24 Nov 2015
The Committee had held a meeting on 17 November and two matters were raised that necessitated the need to obtain legal opinion. These were: whether the Select Committee may consider a Bill and the negotiating mandates from Provincial Legislatures prior to the National Assembly passing the Bill which it only ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-2015]: final Mandates: Decision deferred
18 Nov 2015
The Committee met to consider the final mandates on the 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill from Provinces. The Parliamentary Legal Advisers were present to give guidance to Members. The Committee Secretary announced that six final mandates had been presented, and of those, five were in favour of the Bill. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-15]: negotiating mandates
17 Nov 2015
The Committee met to hear the negotiating mandates presented by the provinces on the 2015 Division of Revenue Bill (DORB). Members discussed at length whether or not it was procedurally correct for the Committee to hear negotiating mandates at this meeting, because the National Assembly (NA) would only be dealing ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
University Funding & 2015 MTBPS: hearing with DHET & Council on Higher Education, with Minister
4 Nov 2015
A joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations and the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education heard submissions from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Council on Higher Education (CHE) on the funding of the higher education sector and the post-school education and training ...
NCOP Finance
Taking Parliament to the People: Committee Researcher's Analysis; Follow up on Western Cape financial issues considered during earlier oversight: Provincial Treasury briefing
4 Nov 2015
The Select Committee on Finance noted that the MEC for Finance, Western Cape, had responded to concerns that were discussed previously, and had submitted a full response to the House Chairperson. Fourteen matters of concern were addressed in that letter. It was noted that the Select Committee on Finance, together ...
Finance Standing Committee
2015 Revised Fiscal Framework Report (MTBPS): consideration
3 Nov 2015
The DA submitted that a number of core issues were not included in the observations and recommendations. These included concern over the rate of economic growth; changed policies for growth; expenditure; a lack of long-term fiscal guidelines; cost containment measures; the contingency reserve; debt levels; fiscal risks and the Public ...
NCOP Finance
Turks and Caicos Islands; Brazil; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Uruguay; Zimbabwe tax agreements; Committee Reports on Provincial Treasuries & Kwa-Zulu Natal oversight
14 Oct 2015
The Select Committee on Finance was briefed on the amended Tax Treaty with Zimbabwe by National Treasury. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) conducted a briefing on five international agreements with Brazil, Turks and Caicos Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Uruguay which aimed to remove barriers to cross-border trade ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Reports on KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo Oversight Visits
13 Oct 2015
Report of the meeting to follow.
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Mining Framework Agreement to assess socio-economic conditions of mineworkers: Department of Mineral Resources progress report
22 Sep 2015
The Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources received a briefing from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on the progress made in the implantation of the Mining Framework to assess the socio-economic conditions of mine workers.
In July 2013 the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry was developed. ...