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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department, Land Bank & ARC Quarter 1 performances: hearing; with Minister
14 Sep 2018
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Land Bank and Agricultural Research Council (ARC) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on their first quarter budget expenditure and performance. The Minister was in attendance.
The Department spent R370m from a total budget of R923m for the first quarter ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Energy Quarter 1 performance: hearing
12 Sep 2018
The Department of Energy(DoE) presented its first quarter expenditure report for the current financial year, and said it had been allocated an annual budget of R7.45 billion, of which R617 million was for the operation of the Department. The balance was allocated to transfer payments which went to public entities ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 1 performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Sep 2018
This was a joint meeting attended by Members of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation and the Standing Committee on Appropriations. The only topic on the agenda was the presentation on the first quarter performance report by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), which contained information regarding budget ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Defence facilities in Bloemfontein: Defence, Public Works, Health, Treasury on challenges; with Ministers
4 Sep 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received briefings from the Departments of Defence, Public Works, Health and National Treasury on the infrastructure refurbishment and maintenance challenges experienced at the Department of Defence facilities in Bloemfontein. The three departmental delegations, accompanied by their Ministers, were tasked with finding a lasting situation to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 performance 2018/19 of departments
24 Aug 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from Parliamentary Committee Researchers on the analysis of the First Quarter Expenditure Report for the 2018/19 financial year. Most of the departments’ expenditure reports indicated either overspending or under-spending of the funds allocated to them.
There were numerous vacant positions in most ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 1 performance; Deviation/Expansion requests to Office of Chief Procurement Officer
21 Aug 2018
The National Treasury (NT) told the Committee that in the first quarter of 2018/19, government entities had under-spent their budgets by nearly R10 billion, which was 5.3% of the funds available. The Departments which had contributed the most to this under-spending had been Higher Education and Training (R2 billion), Police ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Public Service Commission; Parliamentary Budget Office
9 May 2018
The Public Service Commission (PSC) gave its comments on the 2018 Appropriations Bill to the Committee. The presentation covered the PSC’s areas of oversight and the outputs of its oversight function. The PSC acknowledged that it was not a financial institution, but was the custodian of good administration and would ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: Financial and Fiscal Commission briefing
8 May 2018
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) came before the Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA or “the committee”) to present comments and recommendations regarding the 2018 Appropriation Bill (“the Bill”). The presentation was thorough and discussed the Bill, economic outlook, investment and job creation, baseline changes across votes, risks to the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: National Treasury briefing
4 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by National Treasury on the 2018 Appropriation Bill.
National Treasury presented the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Bill was divided by vote and by main division within a vote (i.e. by programme and / or transfer and subsidy to a national department within a ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
SAA & SA Post Office recapitalisation: performance progress report
25 Apr 2018
In his opening remarks, the Deputy Finance Minister acknowledged that South African Airways (SAA) had a financial and corporate governance and operational model crisis. These problems needed urgent attention. Unless these problems were sorted out, it would be difficult to accommodate new ideas. The path to recovery for SAA had ...