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Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament Amendment Bill: public submission
2 May 2018
Despite a late start and a lack of quorum, the Chairperson resolved the meeting continue in order to discuss the public submission on the draft Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures Amendment Bill. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor, noted several technical amendments which still had to be ...
Public Service and Administration
DPME & NYDA & Stats SA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
The NYDA had appointed a new CEO who would embark on the process of recruiting for the vacant positions of CFO and the Executive Director: NYDA planned to facilitate and implement educational opportunities to improve the quality of educational attainment for the youth. The agency would continue to support and ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act Amendment Draft Bill: Auditor-General briefing
14 Mar 2018
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) gave a background of the legislative instruments that informed the discussions of the draft Public Audit Act Amendment Bill, and a response to issues raised during the previous discussions. Key among these were the instruments that established the duties and responsibilities of accounting officers, ...
Public Service and Administration
DPME Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) 2016/17; DPME Local Government Monitoring and Support of Management
14 Mar 2018
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation’s analysis of the Management Performance Assessment Tool 2016 results highlights the progress and challenges experienced. The trends analysis shows that there is a steady improvement on areas such as strategic management, governance and accountability, financial management as well as human resources management. The ...
Public Service and Administration
Disciplinary cases in Public Service; DPSA & Public Service Commission; Free State Progress Report, with Minister
7 Mar 2018
The Department of Public Service and Administration discipline trends in the public service has revealed that it takes too long to finalise disciplinary cases, which is contrary to the enabling prescripts. According to the latest PERSAL report ending 31 December 2017 the average number of days it takes departments to ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Act Amendment Draft Bill: public hearings day 1
6 Mar 2018
The Committee met to receive input from civil society through public hearings to aid their work in the drafting of the Public Audit Act Amendment Bill.
The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa said that too many people who did not know how to do their jobs were involved in ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Draft Bill: briefing on public comments
2 Mar 2018
In the run up to the public hearings on the 6, 7 and 9 March, the Standing Committee on the Auditor General (SCOAG) was briefed on the public submissions on the Draft Public Audit Act Amendment Bill by the Committee’s legal and content advisors which were grouped into themes.
A ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA, National School of Government, Centre for Public Service Innovation + Public Service Commission Quarter 3 performance; with Deputy Minister
28 Feb 2018
The Public Service Commission presented on its third quarter performance.
93% of its planned targets were achieved in quarter three. A vacancy rate of 8.6% was maintained, 83% of the grievances finalised, 73% of public administration cases finalised and 100% of the National Anti-Corruption Hotline cases were referred. The remaining ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Draft Bill: consideration by the Constitutional and Legal Services Office
24 Jan 2018
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor: Constitutional and Legal Services Office, presented the Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Amendment Bill, and told the Committee that its work was guided by the two key findings of the Constitutional Court judgment:
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Appointment of the External Auditor for AGSA; Committee Reports
24 Nov 2017
There was a briefing by the Chairperson of the Audit Committee of AG on the appointment of the External Auditor. The AG was really struggling to get a new external auditor and one of the reasons for that was because the AG is contracted to a lot of private firms. There ...