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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: public hearings
11 Mar 2016
At the outset, the Chairperson allowed time for the Democratic Alliance to air its views on the process that the Committee was following. The DA had raised issues in a previous meeting that it did not believe that the presentations were in line with either the Constitution or the Parliamentary ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Budget: Public hearings
2 Mar 2016
The joint sitting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance heard submissions from six entities on the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill. The entities were the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Witwatersrand University’s School of Economics and Business Science, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2016 Division of Revenue Bill: South African Local Government Association comments & input from National Treasury
2 Mar 2016
The meeting began with deliberations about the legality of the meeting itself. Members of the DA, including Shadow Minister of Finance, Mr D Maynier (who was sitting in on the meeting), argued that the meeting was inconsistent with the Constitution as it was out of place in terms of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: National Treasury briefing
26 Feb 2016
At the outset, the Democratic Alliance Members raising concerns whether this meeting was properly called, in terms of the Constitution and the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act (the Money Bills Act). They asserted that Parliament should only consider the Division of Revenue Bill after the adoption of ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports: New Development Bank Special Appropriation Bill [B32-15]; Finance Bill [B31-15]; 2015 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B28-15]
18 Nov 2015
During consideration of the New Development Bank (NDB) Special Appropriation Bill, the Democratic Alliance argued that the country could not afford the R2.2 billion first New Development Bank installment, due in January 2016. Within the context of the higher education funding crisis, it was advisable to use the R2.2 billion ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): Public Service Commission briefing
2 Nov 2015
The Public Service Commission (PSC) proposed a strategy for improving management practices in the public service comprising of three elements: professionalising the public service, transforming corporate support practices to focus on outcomes as well as compliance, and improving performance management and accountability structures.
It had identified the country's open system ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): Human Science Research Council briefing
30 Oct 2015
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) presented a briefing and analysis of the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).The briefing covered the implications and needs of the education and health sectors, the need to have a skilled and capable state, to ensure accelerated economic growth, infrastructure investment, job creation, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-2015]; Adjustment Appropriation Bill [B28-2015]: briefing
23 Oct 2015
Awaited documents: Draft Report on 2015 Adjustment Budget; Draft Report on 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill[available once published on the ATC]
National Treasury met with both the Standing Committee and the Select Committee on Appropriations to brief them on the Adjustment Budget for 2015 as contained in the two Bills. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Minister of Finance briefing
22 Oct 2015
The Minister of Finance and a delegation from the National Treasury met with a joint committee comprising the Standing Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Appropriations. The National Treasury presented the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
The Jobs Fund: Finance Deputy Minister & National Treasury progress report
22 Sep 2015
National Treasury gave the Committee a progress report on the activities of the Jobs Fund. It gave a brief overview on the level of unemployment in the country and how it was being addressed. It then spoke to the mandate of the Fund and its objectives, how disbursement was managed ...