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NCOP Finance
Mpumalanga 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
12 Jun 2018
The National Treasury reported that there were fiscal risks and high accruals in Mpumalanga’s Departments of Education and Health. Improved infrastructure delivery, capacity enhancement, and better planning and project execution skills had to be sought to reduce under-spending, especially of conditional grants. Irregular expenditure and medico-legal claims were a challenge ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill: National Treasury & IEC briefing
7 Jun 2018
The Independent Electoral Commission and National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Political Party Funding Bill [B33-2017].
The National Treasury explained that the costing of the envisaged structure is to be financed following the phased-in approach with about R20 million required. The compensation of employees would cost about R5.5 million, ...
NCOP Appropriations
Human Settlements Grant 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) allocation for the 2017/18 financial year amounted to R19.9 billion, which was a R1.6 billion increase over the previous year. The grant was allocated through the HSDG allocation formula approved by the Human Settlements Ministers and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC) and National Treasury. ...
NCOP Finance
Western Cape 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
5 Jun 2018
Documents handed out: Committee research document (not available to the public)
National Treasury reported that there were fiscal risks in education and health, and high accruals. Skills capacity had to improve for project execution, along with improved planning skills to reduce underspending, especially with conditional grants. Total underspending amounted to ...
NCOP Appropriations
School Sanitation Audit; Education Infrastructure expenditure; with Minister
30 May 2018
The School Sanitation Audit was presented as a work in progress. This was in response to the President's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities after the March 2018 drowning of Lumka Mketwa in a pit toilet at an Eastern Cape primary school. In 2014 Michael Kompane also lost ...
NCOP Appropriations
‘Back to Basics’ and support provided to municipalities: COGTA, Treasury, Salga and FFC workshop
23 May 2018
There were four briefings to the Select Committee on Appropriations on the progress made with the ‘Back to Basics’ programme, and the support provided to municipalities. The presentations were made by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), the National Treasury (NT), the South African Local Government Association ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Election of Chairperson; Mandate of Committee
16 May 2018
Members of the NCOP Ad Hoc Committee on Funding of Represented Political Parties met to elect a Chairperson and to discuss the mandate of the Committee. Members understood the importance of taking the process forward but were concerned about the number of meetings and sittings that they were currently attending ...
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 ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
African Union Institutional Review Report: DIRCO briefing; with Deputy Minister
28 Mar 2018
The meeting received a briefing from Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers, International Relations and Cooperation and Ambassador Mxolisi Nkosi, on the African Union Institutional Reform.
The Deputy Minister was pleased to note that good relations between South Africa and Rwanda were back on track. The situation on the continent was quite ...
Finance Standing Committee
Land Bank 2016/17 Annual Report
7 Mar 2018
2016/17 Annual Reports
The Standing Committee on Finance and the Select Committee on Finance were briefed by the Land Bank on its 2016/17 annual report.
The Land Bank, in placing its financial results in context, highlighted that the agricultural sector was still recovering from the two years of drought, and ...