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Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Departments Quarter 3 performance: DPME briefing
10 Mar 2020
A key issue raised was that the Committee needs to make an assessment of how the budget translates into service delivery, determine what value government receives, and determine what the impact of government spending on the budget’s developmental objectives are. The Department’s presentation lacked necessary information and only spoke to ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Threats of violence against AGSA staff at municipalities: progress report
6 Mar 2020
Threats and intimidation against auditors during recent MFMA audits: AGSA briefing
The Standing Committee met with the SAPS National Commissioner, the Auditor-General, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and the eThekwini Municipality for a follow-up briefing on threats and intimidation of Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) auditors in certain municipalities. For example, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Pre-2020 budget workshop with National Treasury on budget instruments to be tabled by Minister of Finance
25 Feb 2020
The Committee and National Treasury officials held a pre-2020 budget workshop on the budget instruments to be tabled by the Minister of Finance the following day. The workshop covered the documents tabled by the Minister, particularly the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the Appropriation Bill.
Treasury said any proposed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 3 Spending Challenges: Treasury report
18 Feb 2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on 2019/20 Quarter 3 Spending Outcomes for departments. It spoke about expenditure reporting by public entities and the challenges in verifying this.
The overall spending for the Quarter 3 of 2019/20 shows spending of R683 billion, an underspending of R14.4 billion. The largest deviation was ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Overview of Committee work undertaken during 2019
5 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations deliberated on the work undertaken by the Committee in 2019. The Committee Content Adviser took the Committee through the draft report of the recommendations made by the Committee at the previous meeting. It was decided that it was imperative for Members to attach specific timeframes ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Threats and intimidation against auditors during recent MFMA audits: AGSA briefing
4 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee met with the Auditor-General for a briefing on threats of intimidation made against auditing teams while auditing the Municipal Finance Management Act.
The Auditor-General had flagged the threats the year before. The briefing was taking place specifically to avoid reacting only when the incidents hit the headlines. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: finalisation & committee reports
3 Dec 2019
MTBPS Speech by the Minister of Finance
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
The Standing Committee on Appropriations considered and adopted both the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement Report and the 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill.
The Committee spoke about the need for the private sector to play an important ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
AGSA 2018/19 Integrated Annual Report
3 Dec 2019
The Committee considered a draft report based on a previous meeting, where the Auditor-General (AG) had explained to Members how he finalised audits, and which infrastructural tools were used to do so.
The Chairperson went through each point of the report, and allowed Members to put forward suggestions on how ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: public hearings
29 Nov 2019
The joint Appropriations Committees of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) received presentations from seven non-governmental organisations at a public hearing on the 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill and the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) said the National Treasury’s fiscal ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill - DWS & Cooperative Governance briefings (Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation present)
27 Nov 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation presented on the 2019/20 Adjusted Appropriation Bill. The Department had reprioritised infrastructure allocations from underspending projects to those with a capacity to absorb. Funding was reprioritised towards the Blue Drop/Green Drop programme to improve drinking water and wastewater quality management, and the settlement accruals ...