Ms Millicent Ntombizodwa Sibongile Manana

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Millicent Ntombizodwa Sibongile Manana

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations SAA on R5 billion Special Appropriation Bill; Adjustments Appropriation Bill
    21 Nov 2018

    The 2018 Special Appropriation Bill for allocating R5bn to SAA was presented by Treasury. The R5bn would only be used to assist SAA to pay guaranteed debts that are coming due on 30 November 2018 but SAA would still be insolvent. It will continue making losses until 2020/21. SAA's identified ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Adjustments Appropriation Bill 2018: Department of Transport motivation
    21 Nov 2018

    The Department of Transport (DoT) explained and motivated for adjustments to its 2018/19 appropriation. It explained that the additional allocation of R33 million was for the City of Cape Town for Phase 2A of MyCiti Bus Rapid Transit System infrastructure project. The R33 million will be used to finalise the ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Maintenance devolution from Public Works to Defence, with Public Works Minister
    20 Nov 2018

    The Appropriations Standing Committee had resolved in September 2018 that an inter-ministerial task team be set up to consider handover of the infrastructure maintenance and refurbishment function from the Department of Public Works to the Department of Defence. The Ministers of Public Works and Defence considered the matter and directed ...

  • Water and Sanitation Municipal water debt: Department; COGTA; Treasury; SALGA update with Minister
    14 Nov 2018

    The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) provided details of the municipal debt to water boards, and said an Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) had been established to devise a plan to resolve the outstanding debt in more structured way. The Committee was told that the municipalities owed a total of ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations 2018 MTBPS: Human Sciences Research Council briefing
    7 Nov 2018

    The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on their overall assessment of the 2018 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It highlighted that the spending priorities included reducing poverty and inequality, and increasing employment and inclusive growth. It stressed the need for an improvement in spending efficiency, government capacity ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations 2018 MTBPS: Public Service Commission input
    6 Nov 2018

    The Public Service Commission observed that a detailed and integrated planning across departments was needed for economic recovery. Stronger oversight of state-owned entities (SoEs) was needed. There had to be better support systems for underperforming departments, through better alignment between planning and performance management systems. Informed decisions had to be ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations 2018 MTBPS: SALGA input
    31 Oct 2018

    The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) briefed the Committee on their response to the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). It focused on the macro economic climate and said that the MTBPS had three key priorities.

    The first one was implementing the economic stimulus and recovery plan launched ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Quarter 1 Expenditure Patterns of National Departments; SALGA innovative financing for municipal infrastructure conference
    16 Oct 2018

    The Committee met to consider the Report on Quarter 1 Expenditure Patterns of National Departments and the Report on the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) conference.

    Both reports were adopted with amendments..

  • Public Accounts (SCOPA) Audit Outcome 2017/18: Auditor General briefing
    10 Oct 2018

    A joint meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing by the Auditor-General (AG) on the 2017/18 audit outcomes.

    A total of 434 government departments and state-owned enterprises were audited. Only 25% received clean audits compared to last year when ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Division of Revenue: Financial and Fiscal Commission 2019-20 submission
    9 Oct 2018

    The Committee received a briefing from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the 2019/18 Division of Revenue.

    The briefing focused on the re-engineering of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations System (IGFR); recentralisation; provincial fiscal adjustments mechanisms in times of protracted fiscal constraints, using the health sector as an example; the ...