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NCOP Appropriations
Early Childhood Development Grant Quarter 4 performance: hearing
16 May 2018
The Committee was briefed by the National Treasury and the National Department of Social Development, and received submissions from the Eastern Cape, the North West Province and the Northern Cape, on the Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant.
National Treasury (NT) focused on the purposes of the grant, whether those purposes ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Bill [B6B-2016]: consideration of written submissions
16 May 2018
The Committee and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) was briefed on submissions by members of the public on the proposals in the Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Bill [B6B-2016]. There had been five written submissions from interested parties. These had included comments on the rights ...
NCOP Finance
Eastern Cape 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
15 May 2018
The National Treasury provided the Committee with the preliminary outcomes of the Eastern Cape’s 2017/18 provincial expenditure as at 31 March 2018. Medico-legal claims remained the biggest risk for the Department of Health (DoH). There was a need for consequence management for general wrongdoing and medical negligence. The DoH was ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Annual Performance Report 2018/9; Secretary to Parliament disciplinary matter
10 May 2018
Annual Performance Report 2018/9 presentation awaited
The funding for political parties is the only thing that has not been affected by budgetary cuts while the core business of Parliament has been allocated less.
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament was left wondering why the budget for ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2018]: negotiating mandates
24 Apr 2018
The Select Committee of Appropriations met to consider the provincial negotiating mandates on the Division of the Revenue Bill by the nine South African Provinces. Eight out of the nine provinces voted in favour of the Bill; the Western Cape voted against the Bill. North West had held its meeting ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Safcol briefing on land claim settlement & Western Cape Forestry Sector Forum on transformation in the forestry sector
18 Apr 2018
Safcol briefed the Committee on land claim settlements.
SAFCOL faces a range of challenges to its business operations, the key one being delays in the land restitution process. In 2008, the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights undertook a verification study of land under SAFCOL, which confirmed the legitimacy of ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) petition: Special Investigating Unit & Department of Labour hearing
18 Apr 2018
The Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) Petition dealt with the alleged failure by TRTC to pay pension monies and severance packages to former employees subsequent to its liquidation. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) gave a briefing on the proclamation mandate of the SIU investigation, facts shown by the investigation and ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Kagiso Trust & Equal Education submissions & Treasury response
17 Apr 2018
Key focus areas for Kagiso Trust included support early child development (ECD), emerging farmers, and emerging businesses in construction, real estate and agriculture. Kagiso motivated for ease of state partnerships with non profit organizations (NPOs), as it related to opportunities for access to grants for co-funding partnerships with the state ...
NCOP Appropriations
2018 Division of Revenue Bill: National Treasury briefing, Financial Fiscal Commission & SALGA submission
20 Mar 2018
The Committee received input from National Treasury, the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on the 2018 Division of Revenue Bill.
The National Treasury briefing focussed on the consultative Division of Revenue Bill process that involved many stakeholders like the Budget Council (Finance Minister ...
Finance Standing Committee
2018 Budget: public hearings
28 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee of Finance and the Select Committee on Finance held public hearings on the 2018 Budget (Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals).
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) acknowledged that during the 2018 Budget presentation, the Minister had reinforced the message of the President in that this ...