Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Municipal Audit Outcomes 2017/18: Auditor-General briefing
16 Jul 2019
2017/18 Local Governement Audit Outcomes
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met jointly with the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General to receive a briefing from the Auditor General - South Africa on the 2017/18 local government audit outcomes.
The Auditor General – South Africa (AGSA) pointed out that ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Committee Legacy Report
9 Jul 2019
Members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) received a presentation on the SCOPA Legacy Report. The Report touched on the mandate of the Committee, SCOPA’s three strategic objectives, focus areas, key stakeholders, findings, challenges, key achievements, and recommendations for the Sixth Parliament.
The main challenges were identified ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Election of Chairperson
2 Jul 2019
The Committee unanimously elected Mr M Hlengwa (IFP) as the Chairperson for the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Members congratulated the incoming chair and committed themselves to working with him.
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance; Tanzanian Parliament delegation
20 Nov 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality presented the report on its second quarter performance, and said employee relations issues and the disarray of the Commission’s Parliamentary unit were key issues. Just under 80% of the Commission’s planned targets had been achieved, and only delays in it being allowed to access correctional ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 2 performance; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency in its Quarter 2 performance achieved 20 (69%) of its 29 targets, while nine (31%) were not achieved. There was an improvement by 9% for targets achieved from Quarter 1. The Department spent 44.9% of the adjusted annual budget by end of Quarter ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development Quarter 1 Performance, with the Minister
31 Oct 2018
The Department of Small Business Development presented its first quarter performance report, and said that a comparative analysis over the past three years indicated a performance in continuing decline, largely because of the transfer of some programmes to different entities, as well as a change in the structure of some ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Abuse of women and children by religious leaders/sector: CRL Commission briefing
30 Oct 2018
The Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Commission (CRL Rights Commission) presented its recommendations to prevent the commercialisation of religion and the abuse and exploitation of people’s belief systems. There is a lack of proper regulation to control churches that are operating outside of ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Gender Transformation in Tertiary institutions; Sex workers wellbeing: CGE briefing; BRRR
23 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Budgetary Review and recommendations report (BRRR) and it was to be briefed by the Commission on Gender Equality on its report on Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions Hearings (University of Free State, Johannesburg and ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Small Business Development to discuss the Cooperatives Amendment Act, N0 6 of 2013, the Budgetary Report and Recommendation Report (BRRR) and the report on their study tour to Spain. Both reports were adopted at the close of the day.
The first discussions ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women & Commission for Gender Equality 2017/18 Annual Reports, with AGSA input
9 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency was briefed by the Department of Women and the Commission for Gender Equality on their Annual Reports and received a presentation by the Auditor-General of South Africa on the two Annual Reports.
The Auditor-General of South Africa found that ...