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Finance Standing Committee
Progress report and preliminary financial results: South African Airways briefing, with Deputy Minister present
20 Sep 2016
The meeting involved a presentation by the board of South African Airways (SAA) to the Standing Committee on Finance (SCOF) followed by a question and response session including input from the National Treasury (NT). The presentation included a progress report and preliminary financial results for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 financial ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Questions to the Executive, Motions without Notice, Declarations of vote
6 Sep 2016
The Secretary to the National Assembly briefed Members on Motion without Notice, and highlighted that new Rule 123 was devised to manage the challenges experienced with motions without notice in the House. The rule stated that before a motion can be moved, five political parties including the ANC, DA and ...
Finance Standing Committee
Financial Sector Regulation “Twin Peaks” Bill [B34-2015]: JSE submission & deliberations; Land Bank board nomination
31 Aug 2016
The Committee approved its Report on nominating candidates for appointment to the Board of the Land Bank. It noted in the Report that Parliament was also asked to act merely as a post box in the process of receiving nominations but it did not have a say in recommending who ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Local public procurement: Auditor-General input; DTI on its 4 Quarter 2015/16 performance
30 Aug 2016
The Committee was briefed on the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI’s) performance for the fourth quarter of the 2015/2016 financial year, which provided an outline of South Africa’s economic context, the DTI’s strategic goals and objectives, key achievements and financial performance.
As part of the DTI’s strategic imperatives, its ...
Appointment of Public Protector
Committee Report on Nomination of Public Protector appointment
30 Aug 2016
The Committee finalised and adopted its Committee Report with minor amendments. The report was The report would be presented to the National Assembly on Wednesday, 7 September 2016.
Finance Standing Committee
Financial Sector Regulation “Twin Peaks” Bill [B34-2015]: deliberations
25 Aug 2016
The Committee continued it preliminary clause by clause reading of the Financial Sector Regulation Bill, major points included:
Clause 45-47
Here the Committee sought clarity on the role of the CEO regarding the keeping of minutes under clause 45. It rejected the Banking Association of South Africa’s submission on clause ...
Appointment of Public Protector
Committee recommendation for Public Protector: finalisation
24 Aug 2016
The Ad Hoc Committee recommended Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane as the preferred candidate to the National Assembly when it tables its report on 31 August 2016. All Committee Members, apart from the DA, reached consensus agreement on the name of Adv Mkhwebane. Members spoke very positively of the recommended candidate noting ...
Appointment of Public Protector
Appointment of Public Protector: Shortlisting of five of the interviewees
18 Aug 2016
The Ad Hoc Committee tasked with recommending a new Public Protector wasted no time in reducing the 14 candidates’ shortlisted and interviewed last week to five who would remain for further consideration next week. Emphasising the nature of a multiparty system and the need to reach consensus, Members considered each ...
Appointment of Public Protector
Interviews for Public Protector Position
11 Aug 2016
The Ad Hoc Committee formed to interview the 14 candidates for the post of Public Protector asked searching and relevant questions in the course of the marathon session.
The most commonly asked questions aimed at establishing the candidates’ notions regarding their fitness and propriety to fill the post. They were ...
Finance Standing Committee
SARS Commissioner & National Treasury on 2016 results
17 May 2016
The Director General of National Treasury took the Committee through its 2015/16 performance, and also responded to the Committee’s 2015 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The pre-audited outcome was R28.690 billion or 98.9% of the final budget with R314 million unspent. An area of significant variation between budget and ...