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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 National Budget Dialogue
16 May 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance
16 May 2018
The 2017/18 Quarter 4 report showed great progress towards the achievement of the six Strategic Outcome Oriented goals envisaged by the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan of the Fifth Parliament. Of a total of 19 performance indicators, only five have not met the targets. One of these indicators is for the timely ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
NDP & Annual Performance Plan alignment: DPME briefing
15 May 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on the alignment of the annual performance plans (APP)s of departments with the National Development Plan (NDP) goals, the medium term strategic framework (MTSF) and the Budget.
The DPME highlighted misalignments between the Estimates of National ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Human Sciences Research Council & DA
11 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Committee also considered DA proposals on the Appropriations Bill.
HSRC raised a number of pertinent socio-economic issues relating to early childhood development (ECD), post-school education, land reform and the wider ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Annual Performance Report 2018/9; Secretary to Parliament disciplinary matter
10 May 2018
Annual Performance Report 2018/9 presentation awaited
The funding for political parties is the only thing that has not been affected by budgetary cuts while the core business of Parliament has been allocated less.
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament was left wondering why the budget for ...
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 ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Office of Chief Procurement Officer: progress report by National Treasury
24 Apr 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) met with the Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA) to discuss the work of the OCPO. The OCPO presented a briefing report, highlighting new initiatives, the progress of the Public Procurement Bill, major challenges to OCPO, and developments since previous meetings. Much of ...