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NCOP Finance
IDP, LED & NDP: Mangaung & eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality briefing
21 Aug 2018
Documents handed out: Research document by the Committee researcher (to Members only)
National Treasury reported that matters impacting on audit opinion included non-compliance with Supply Chain Management processes and poor management of indigent registers. Fiscal risks related to service delivery included declines in water revenue, unfunded mandates, and the unresolved conflict ...
NCOP Appropriations
Early Childhood Development Grant performance: hearing; Eastern Cape Department of Social Development: follow-up; with Minister
15 Aug 2018
The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development reported back on their performance with the Early Childhood Development Grant, as a follow-up to their engagement with the Committee in May.
The national and provincial Departments of Social Development (DSD) and National Treasury (NT) presented the expenditure performance of the province from ...
NCOP Finance
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on IDP, LED & service delivery
14 Aug 2018
The National Treasury (NT) provided an overview of the financial position of all eight metros for the year ending in June 2017. Non-compliance with supply chain management (SCM) processes and ineffective political and administrative leadership were among the salient factors impacting on audit opinion.
In the case of Nelson Mandela ...
NCOP Finance
Committee Report on Provincial Expenditure 2017/18
7 Aug 2018
The Select Committee on Finance adopted the draft report on the provincial treasuries’ preliminary budget outcomes for the 2017/18 financial year.
The Committee resolved it would request the National Treasury and Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) to brief it on the audited figures because the reported figures by the provinces were ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill [B33-2017]: finalisation
26 Jun 2018
The Committee met to deliberate on its Report to the House on the Political Party Funding Bill. The important matters to deliberate were the public comments and submissions received in response to the Bill. The Committee had to determine whether the proposals for amendments would be accepted or rejected.
The ...
NCOP Finance
Free State & Gauteng 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
22 Jun 2018
The Select Committee on Finance (National Council of Provinces) was briefed by the National Treasury and the Free State and Gauteng provincial treasuries on their preliminary 2017/18 budget outcomes.
National Treasury (NT) focused on health and education matters in the Free State. Problems highlighted included the low throughput pass rates ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill: public hearing
20 Jun 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Represented Political Parties convened a public hearing for oral submissions on the Political Party Funding Bill. The Committee had received 11 written submissions and seven of the organisations that had made submissions indicated that they wished to make an oral submission. In ...
NCOP Finance
KwaZulu-Natal 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
19 Jun 2018
The National Treasury reported that in KZN there were overall fiscal risks pertaining to education and health, and high accruals. Capacity enhancements, better planning and project execution skills had to be sought by departments to reduce under-spending, especially of conditional grants. Thirteen out of 15 departments had under-spent, largely in ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill: Parliamentary Legal Advisor, National Treasury & IEC responses
14 Jun 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties was briefed by Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Services Office (CLSO) on the Political Party Funding Bill. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and National Treasury also made their presentations and provided their responses to the Bill.
At the outset, the Chairperson ...
NCOP Appropriations
Provincial Disaster Grant performance 2017/18 Quarter 4: hearing; with COGTA Minister
13 Jun 2018
The Committee heard that the disaster relief grant had been introduced during the 2010/11 financial year and was administered by the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG), in consultation with the National Treasury. The main objective of the grant was to respond to the immediate needs after a disaster had occurred ...