Politician Profile Page
Finance Standing Committee
Financial Sector Summit preparations; PIC rationale for investment decisions; with Deputy Minister
5 Jun 2018
The Committee adopted a resolution on the closure to the public of the 16 May committee meeting on SAA. The Chairperson spoke about stakeholder response to the Committee Report on Financial Sector Transformation and publicising the Committee's recommendations in the build-up to the Financial Sector Summit in July. The private ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
SAA & SA Post Office recapitalisation: performance progress report
25 Apr 2018
In his opening remarks, the Deputy Finance Minister acknowledged that South African Airways (SAA) had a financial and corporate governance and operational model crisis. These problems needed urgent attention. Unless these problems were sorted out, it would be difficult to accommodate new ideas. The path to recovery for SAA had ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAA 2016/17 financial statements & irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing
24 Apr 2018
SAA Annual Report 2017
The hearing on South African Airways was attended by the Deputy Finance Minister, Mondli Gungubele, who had been delegated by the Minister of Finance to lead an oversight team from National Treasury to meet weekly with South African Airways during its grave financial crisis. The SAA ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Office of Chief Procurement Officer: progress report by National Treasury
24 Apr 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) met with the Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA) to discuss the work of the OCPO. The OCPO presented a briefing report, highlighting new initiatives, the progress of the Public Procurement Bill, major challenges to OCPO, and developments since previous meetings. Much of ...
Finance Standing Committee
South African Airways Quarterly Report; with Deputy Minister of Finance
27 Mar 2018
The Standing Committee on Finance met with the South African Airways (SAA) for its quarterly report briefing, in the presence of the Deputy Minister.
SAA said the airline plays an important role in the aviation market and the broader South African economy. The airline generated R31 billion worth of revenue ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Integrated Financial Management Systems (IFMS): National Treasury briefing; with Deputy Minister of Finance
6 Mar 2018
The Director General of the National Treasury gave a report on the status of all outstanding issues that had been raised by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) at the previous meeting, and then made a presentation on the progress the Department had made with the implementation of the ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Minister on SABC Memorandum of Incorporation & Shareholder Compact; Implementation of Committee recommendations
20 Feb 2018
The Minister of Communications updated the Committee on the progress made by the Department on the Shareholders’ Compact and the Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The Department also briefed Members on the implementation of the recommendations of the 2017 Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Exxaro
14 Feb 2018
The Committee heard evidence from the Exxaro CEO about its relationship with Eskom; cost plus mines versus commercial mines; and prejudice to Exxaro cost plus mines by Eskom.
The Exxaro CEO categorically denied Eskom making prepayments to any mines, and certainly not cost plus mines as had been stated by ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
CEO removal at ICASA & Film and Publication Board; ICASA Chairperson conviction
6 Feb 2018
ICASA was requested to focus its presentation strictly on the settlement agreed for payment to suspended CEO Pakamile Pongwana who resigned in August 2017.
ICASA explained that last year the Council received several complaints on the misconduct of the previous CEO which included sexual charges and gross insubordination or insolence. ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Ben Martins
31 Jan 2018
Deputy Minister for Public Enterprises, Mr Ben Martins, in his testimony, disputed Eskom’s suspended head of legal Ms Suzanne Daniels’s claim that the two had a meeting with Mr Duduzane Zuma, Mr Salim Essa and Mr Ajay Gupta at Melrose Arch on July 29, 2017. Mr Martins said that on ...