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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet deviations & expansions: hearing, with Minister of Public Enterprises
23 Jan 2018
This meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the board and management of Transnet was called following the aborted meeting that should have taken place on 6 December 2017, when the Members of the Committee had gathered for the meeting together with representatives from the Directorate of ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Procedure for Removal of President from office in terms of Constitution
10 Jan 2018
The Subcommittee of the National Assembly Rules Committee met to consider, discuss and make proposals on the drafting of Rules to give effect to the Constitutional Court judgement for the Assembly to establish adequate process to deal with Section 89 of the Constitution – removal of a President from office. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
2014 Cabinet directive on vetting of SOE officials: SAA & Transnet stalled, with Minister of State Security
7 Dec 2017
Documents handed out: State Security Agency Presentation [awaited]
The Committee met with the State Security Agency in the presence of the Minister for a brief on progress made regarding the 2014 Cabinet directive to have officials in State organs vetted, especially in supply chain management departments and the circumstances that led ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on deviations and expansions: hearing postponed
6 Dec 2017
This meeting was called to allow Transnet to answer questions regarding contract deviations and expansions, as well as investigations that were being conducted by the Hawks. Transnet had requested condonations of over R200 million on these deviations and expansions. The meeting was a follow up to a meeting that took ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS irregular expenditure; Forensic Data Analysts contracts: hearing with SAPS, SITA, IPID
29 Nov 2017
SITA document annexures available on request
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to discuss patterns of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure within SAPS and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). A DA MP began the hearing by providing photo evidence from a SAPS trip to the UK in 2011 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet contracts, vetting, irregular expenditure, accruals: hearing
28 Nov 2017
Transnet said that vetting was instituted following a 2014 Cabinet decision that all supply chain management (SCM) personnel be vetted. Discussions with organised labour followed on issues of confidentiality and whether all SCM staff had to be vetted. To date only 56 out of 750 staff had supplied all the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in 2016/17
22 Nov 2017
The board of Transnet faced intensive questioning from Members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) when it was called to account for the irregular expenditure figures reported by the Auditor General (AG). It was pointed out that the central figures in the deliberations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IMC on resolution of SASSA/SAPO impasse, with Minister in the Presidency
21 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee briefed a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on resolutions reached towards an agreement between South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) on payment of social grants.
Minister in the Presidency ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission on progress, action plan + challenges submitted to Minister
17 Nov 2017
The Defence Force Service Commission (DFSC) briefed the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on the progress it had made, its action plans, challenges it had encountered, and provided an update on the recommendations tabled to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans.
It reported that it had rolled out its ...
Joint Rules
Proposed Amendments to Joint Rules; Public Participation Model; Proposals by Leader of Government Business
15 Nov 2017
The Committee met to consider a report from the Parliamentary Group on International Relations (PGIR) on proposed amendments to the Joint Rules of Parliament, following a review by a joint sub-committee.
The proposals covered a wide range of issues. These included the meanings of “point of order” and “point of ...