Politician Profile Page
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Committee briefing on SASSA and SAPO impasse, with Ministers present
8 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Social Development briefed the Joint Meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development. The briefing related to the request by the Committee for a National Treasury review of the SASSA/SAPO procurement process, as well as to attend ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations and expansions of national departments & entities: 2016/17 National Treasury Report
1 Nov 2017
National Treasury briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on its consolidated Report on deviation and expansion for national departments and entities for 2016/17.
Highlights of the brief included the legal framework for supply chain management functions; the principles that must be applied based on Section 217 of the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress in procurement of alternative payment services: hearing
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and Portfolio Committee on Social Development had a joint meeting in which the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) was interrogated on the procurement processes followed by SASSA in acquiring service providers to render a revised grants payment system.
The Committee expressed discontent ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Oversight of Presidency; Unanswered Questions by Executive, Mini-Plenaries; Pre-1994 Legislation
18 Oct 2017
The Committee discussed the practical implications of the establishment of a Subcommittee to Monitor Executive Responses to Unanswered Questions. Each quarter this Subcommittee would engage the relevant Ministers on the reasons for the questions being unanswered. The Subcommittee would report its findings to the Rules Committee and any recommendations to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcomes 2016/17: Auditor-General briefing
17 Oct 2017
The report of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2016/17 financial year showed that there had been little improvement over the past four years in the most common areas of qualification among the government departments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which it had audited. What was of concern was ...
Public Service and Administration
DPSA; DPME & NYDA; Stats SA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2017
The Committee considered and approved three reports:
DPSA and entities Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
DPME & NYDA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
Stats SA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
Members corrected minor grammatical and spelling errors in all the reports. In addition, they removed paragraphs from the recommendations section ...
Joint Rules
Principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on 22 November 2016; Commencement of the Review of the Joint Rules
28 Sep 2017
Relevant Document
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Powers, Privileges, and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislature Act 4 of 2004
The joint sub-committee was convened to consider the principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on Tuesday, 22 November 2016, and the proposed amendments to Chapter ...
Joint Rules
Principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on 22 November 2016; Commencement of the Review of the Joint Rules
20 Sep 2017
The Subcommittee was convened with regard to the consideration of the principle of ruling during the Joint Sitting on Tuesday 22 November 2016, and consideration of the review of the Joint Rules.
With regard to the principle of ruling given during the Joint Sitting, the Secretary to the Chairperson said ...