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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2018/19: briefing by Auditor General
23 Oct 2019
Parliament’s Standing Committees on Public Accounts and Appropriations were told that the key message from the 2018/19 audit outcomes of government departments and state-owned entities (SOEs) was that preventive controls, strong consequence management and an effective monitoring culture were still lacking.
Of the 432 entities that were audited, 100 had ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Task Team on the defaulting municipalities that are owing ESKOM (postponed)
22 Oct 2019
VIDEO: Scopa to hear on the debt owed to Eskom by municipalities
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was meant to be briefed by the Inter-Ministerial Task Team on the defaulting municipalities that owed money to ESKOM. However, the Committee decided that the meeting would not continue because the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SIU investigations into municipalities; NPA on SIU-referred cases
16 Oct 2019
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts was briefed by the Special Investigating Unit on municipalities under investigation. It was also briefed by the National Prosecuting Authority on cases referred to it for prosecution by the Special Investigating Unit.
Members called for additional funding for law enforcement agencies involved in investigating ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
State Security Agency on vetting of officials; Research Unit on Audit outcomes, with Minister
15 Oct 2019
The State Security Agency briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on the progress in vetting public officials in state organs. SCOPA has been demanding the vetting of senior government officials and executives of State-Owned Entities that are involved in procurement spending in Supply Chain Management, amounting to hundreds ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Auditor-General of South Africa 2018/19 Annual Report
11 Oct 2019
Annual Reports 2018/2019, Public Audit Act, Public Audit Amendment Act
The Committee discussed the 2018/19 Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor-General (AGSA). The Committee received presentations from the Audit Committee and the AGSA in this regard. The Auditor-General was in attendance.
The Audit Committee expressed its ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
ESKOM oversight report
9 Oct 2019
The Committee met to consider and adopt its report on its oversight visit to the Medupi and Kusile power stations. The Chairperson went through the report with the Members and the draft report was amended substantively.
The Committee had met with ESKOM’s board and management, and had engaged with the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Update on cases referred to the SIU: SABC
18 Sep 2019
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts was briefed by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on the progress made in their investigations into financial irregularities at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. It was told that the investigations had produced sufficient evidence to initiate or join in civil litigation instituted by the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Mafube & Masilonyana: audit outcomes hearing
17 Sep 2019
The Committee convened to interrogate two municipalities from the Free State province -- the Masilonyana and Mafube municipalities -- on the findings of the Auditor General (AG) and the steps they had taken to implement the recommendations. The two municipalities had aroused the displeasure of the Committee because their administrators ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Auditor-General of South Africa on work of institution, Public Audit Act & related matters: workshop
13 Sep 2019
Mr Kimi Makwetu, Auditor-General, Office of the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) provided an induction session for the Committee. He briefed Members on Sections 20 and 5 of the Public Audit Act (PAA) and clarified the differences between a clean audit, adverse opinion and a disclaimer. A clean audit ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Bojanala District; Lekwa-Teemane & Madibeng: audit outcomes hearing
11 Sep 2019
2017/18 local government audit outcomes
Municipal Audit Outcomes 2017/18: Auditor-General briefing
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts had a hearing with three municipalities which were part of the 12 municipalities deemed problematic. The briefing by the Audit General (AG) on the audit outcomes had found that most of these municipalities ...