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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation & Water Trading Entity: Interrogation of 2013/14 Annual Reports, with Minister present
26 May 2015
The meeting revolved around discussing and interrogating the qualified annual report for the Department of Water and Sanitation and its Water Trading Entity for 2013/2014.
This Department had received a qualified opinion for five years running, and the Committee was greatly concerned and frustrated with the same story being told ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans; Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10-2015]: National Treasury response
20 May 2015
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plan. In 2014, it had commenced with ward demarcation, intending to complete this in August 2015, but the Minister had then intervened to ask that it re-determine certain municipal boundaries. It was expected that this process ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Withholding equitable share from municipalities: input by Department of Cooperative Governance; National Treasury & SALGA
12 May 2015
Department of Cooperative Governance
The Department said that the decision to withhold the equitable share funds was a Treasury decision. Its presentation spoke to the engagements with the affected municipalities, general observations from the engagements, future issues of policy that needed discussion, the progress to date of municipal payments to ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10-2015]: public hearings Day 2
22 Apr 2015
The Committee heard submissions from various stakeholders on the Disaster Management Amendment Bill.
The Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) raised key issues such as the fact that fifty percent of disaster losses are not recorded, the importance of devolution and placement of the function at ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill: briefing by stakeholders
21 Apr 2015
Various Stakeholders presented their ideas and comments on the Disaster Amendment Bill [B10-2015]
There were several issues raised in these presentations that were recurrent in many presentations and almost the whole Committee and the stakeholders agreed with the move from the phrase ‘disaster management’ to ‘disaster risk reduction and the ...
Public Service and Administration
Auditor-General findings on DPSA, DPME & their entities annual performance plans and audits
15 Apr 2015
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) provided the Committee with a broad overview of its expectations for the public service. In considering the annual performance plans for 2015/16, the main thrust was to ensure goals were measurable, reliable, achievable, realistic and cost effective. When dealing with performance monitoring, the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Interrogation of Department of Public Works 2014 Annual Report and Financial Statements, in presence of Deputy Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts, with the Deputy Minister of Public Works also present, interrogated the Annual Report and financial statements of the Department of Public Works (DPW) for the 2014 financial year. Engagement was centred around the qualified audit opinion in relation to the Property Management Trading Entity ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Marine Living Resources Fund: hearings
17 Mar 2015
The Committee met to hear evidence pertaining to the annual reports and financial statements of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), as well as the Marine Living Resources Fund (MLRF).
In discussion on the DAFF annual report and financial statements, Members felt that a root cause for weak ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department International Relations & Cooperation & African Renaissance Fund: Interrogation of Annual Report 2013/14
11 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts interrogated the 2013/14 Annual Report of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the financial statements of the African Renaissance Fund (ARF), which had fallen under the DIRCO since 2011. DIRCO had 125 missions abroad and 20 were visited during the audit, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Home Affairs; Department of International Relations and Cooperation: hearings of evidence
4 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts held a hearing of evidence with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). The hearings were based on the departments’ annual reports for 2013/14 and the Auditor-General’s report for the same financial year.
The DHA said ...