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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Unauthorised expenditure hearing: Stats SA; DSD; DBE; IPID: with Ministers
17 Oct 2023
The Committee met in Parliament to conduct hearings with Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Departments of Basic Education (DBE) and Social Development (DSD), and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) to their unauthorised expenditure dating back to 2006. This comes after National Treasury presented a schedule of unauthorised expenditure ...
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Follow-up: Relocation of illegal dwellers on railway reserve between Philippi & Langa: stakeholder engagement (with |Deputy Minister)
11 Oct 2023
The Committee met virtually to receive an update on the progress made since the meeting on 29 August 2023.
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) central line relocation programme adopted a two-pronged approach, which was aimed at the immediate resumption of railway services (i.e., Operation Bhekela), as ...
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Eskom corruption & related matters: Discussion on the legal opinion regarding Brig J. Burger
10 Oct 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) received the legal opinion regarding the appearance of Brigadier Jaap Burger on the Eskom-related investigations. Brig Burger has twice failed to appear before the Committee. The national police commissioner delegated Brig Burger to be the liaison between the ...
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Hearings on unauthorised expenditure: DMRE, DoT, DBE, DWYPD & DCS
20 Sep 2023
The Committee called the following departments for briefings on their unauthorised expenditure: Minerals and Energy, Transport, Basic Education, Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Correctional Services. This meeting followed the June 2023 interaction with National Treasury which submitted a schedule of unauthorised expenditure. This task was initially planned in ...
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Hearings on unauthorised expenditure: DCoG, DPSA, DWS & DCDT; with Ministers and Deputy Ministers
19 Sep 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts received reports on unauthorised expenditure from the Departments of Cooperative Governance; Public Service and Administration; Water and Sanitation; and Communications and Digital Technologies. The meeting was held in Parliament.
The Department of Public Service and Administration was given 30 days to investigate and ...
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National Treasury Instruction Note 4 2022/2023 regarding the exemption of SOEs from reporting irregular expenditure; with Minister of Finance
6 Sep 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts convened in Parliament to discuss the National Treasury Instruction Note 4 regarding exempting state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from reporting irregular expenditure.
Treasury explained the Note's purpose as a framework to enhance compliance and reporting standards for irregular expenditure. It emphasised that this Note did not ...
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Transnet SIU Investigation & 2021/22 Annual Report; with DPE Minister
5 Sep 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was briefed by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on its investigations into matters involving Transnet. It was told that the Unit had concluded investigations into eight matters related to the findings of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. Transnet ...
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Road Accident Fund audit outcomes & Committee oversight visit findings, with Transport Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts convened in Parliament to hear the response of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to the Auditor-General of South Africa's (AGSA's) audit outcomes, and to provide a response to the Committee’s findings that had resulted from oversight visits.
From the outset, the Committee was frustrated ...
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Relocation of illegal dwellers on railway reserve between Philippi & Langa: stakeholder engagement; (with Transport, Human Settlements, and Public Works and Infrastructure Ministers)
29 Aug 2023
Since 2019, over 5 000 households have settled on the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) central railway line in Cape Town, erecting tents and makeshift homes at three stations in Langa, Philippi and Khayelitsha. This had rendered PRASA incapable of continuing its commuter services, and operations on the ...
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Relocation of illegal dwellers on the railway reserve between Philippi and Langa: stakeholder engagement, with Deputy Minister
5 Jul 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts engaged with various stakeholders, including the City of Cape Town (CoCT), the Department of Transport (DoT), the Department of Human Settlements (DoHS), the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) Housing Development Agency (HDA) and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), ...