Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPO on payment of services: SASSA progress report
15 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the South African Social Security Agency (SASS) on progress made thus far with the South African Post Office (SAPO) regarding their intention to take over the payment of social security grants from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) when the 12-month period ended on 31 March ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT): pending cases and Criminal Asset Recovery Account (CARA)
14 Jun 2017
Documents handed out:
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) presentation [wasn’t able to obtain]
The SCOPA meeting with the Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) was a follow up to the previous meeting where Committee members had raised concerns about the sentences meted out to those found guilty of crime and corruption. The Hawks ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Correctional Services Irregular, Fruitless & Wasteful Expenditure & Accruals; with Minister Day 2
14 Jun 2017
The Committee engaged with the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on suspect contracts procured by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). The Committee had received a letter from Integritron Integrated Solutions lawyers about this hearing. According to the letter, there was a 2016 court interdict prohibiting Minister Masutha from ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Strategic Planning Workshop
9 Jun 2017
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) came before the Committee to submit its proposed amendments to the Public Audit Act, which aimed to strengthen its mandatory role in the public sector in order to hold government departments to account.
Some pivotal amendments included the proposal to expand the AG’s discretion ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Correctional Services on Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure: hearing, with Deputy Minister
7 Jun 2017
The Committee met for a hearing with the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), including the Commissioner of the Department and Deputy Minister Thabang Makwetla, on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Before the meeting got underway, Members registered displeasure with the Department not providing requisite information and/or making pertinent information available ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water Affairs: hearing 2
31 May 2017
SCOPA had arranged the hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up to an unsatisfactory hearing in November 2016. In addition to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, the DWS accruals and commitments were added to the agenda. As it turned out, Committee came close to declaring the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom coal supply agreements with Tegeta: hearing with Minister
30 May 2017
The primary reason for the engagement with was Eskom to get an understanding and clarity about why certain things happened and certain things did not, based on the two reports by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) that Eskom themselves had commissioned to seek clarity on areas of deficiency and to be able to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) on pending cases
23 May 2017
Document handed out: Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) pending cases (not made available to the public)
The heads of the National Prosecuting Authority, the Hawks, the Financial Intelligence Centre, SARS, the Attorney General, the Department of Justice and IPID, who all form part of the Anti-Corruption Task Team, briefed SCOPA on cases ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SABC Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure: update with Minister
17 May 2017
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) gave an update on its irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, particularly the contract with the auditing company, Sekela Xabiso. Sekela Xabiso (SkX) was engaged to detect irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure from financial year 2010/11, and to implement sustainable improvements to the Supply Chain ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA court decision implementation; SASSA irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing
16 May 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) had called for a report from SASSA on the status of implementation of the Constitutional Court decision about Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). The SASSA Manager for Special Projects went through the progress made on the court orders. SASSA was compiling the first quarterly ...