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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
PRASA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
30 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met to hear and deliberate about the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
The meeting was told that PRASA was the most worst performing government entity when it came to irregular expenditure. Transparency had been ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with the Minister in attendance
29 Nov 2016
The committee interrogated the board of the South African National Road Agency (SANRAL) on the R1.1 billion in expenditure for the current financial year which did not comply with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), despite the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) having found that between the years ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
23 Nov 2016
The Minister of Social Development, the Auditor General and the Hawks were present for the hearing on of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA).
SASSA was asked to explain the irregular expenditure involving R316 million (CPS contract), R414 million (physical security), R233 million ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL & COGTA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Ministerial input
16 Nov 2016
The Committee interrogated the fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure reported by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) in relation to the financial statements for 2015/16, for the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). The Deputy Minister of Transport, and the Minister and ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Military Veterans, with Minister: hearing on irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure
15 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) questioned the new Acting Director General (DG) on the high levels of irregular expenditure within the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) which was noted to be the “worst performing department in terms of irregular expenditure” as 21.5% of the DMV budget spending was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education & SITA Annual Reports 2015/16: hearing, with Minister of Education
9 Nov 2016
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), with the objective of ensuring that managers did not tolerate this type of expenditure, and would hold officials ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
National and Provincial Departments 2015/16 audit outcomes: briefing by Auditor-General
2 Nov 2016
The Auditor-General presented key challenges that surfaced during the audits. He put emphasis on the implementation of proper and sound internal controls, and that more attention needs to be paid into supply chain and financial management across government departments and entities. The lack of sound internal controls gave rise to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Outstanding 2016 Annual Reports: Departments' reasons for non-submission
1 Nov 2016
The Committee met to discuss the position of the government entities that had not submitted their Annual Reports to Parliament as required. Invitations to appear before SCOPA had been sent to four departments and two entities. The Department of Environmental Affairs was absent, informing the Committee that it was still ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team & South African Revenue Service: hearing
14 Sep 2016
The Anti Corruption Task Team (ACTT) provided a status report on its operations in fighting corruption and cases of fraud involving government departments while leaving out information on state owned entities (SOEs). Since its inception in October 2010, the total number of cases dealt with is 189 and the number ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Unauthorised expenditure of Department of Sports and Recreation & Department of Public Service and Administration: National Treasury briefing
7 Sep 2016
The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) said that it had gone over budget by R8.8m because two advisory bodies, comprising a total of nine members, had been established, and because the model of operation of the advisory bodies had involved extensive travel between Cape Town and Pretoria. When ...