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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Higher Education funding: Parliamentary Budget Office research findings
18 Oct 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on their Analysis of the Cost of Higher Education in South Africa.
The PBO delegation gave their findings on the issue facing South Africa’s higher education system, noting that the system is heavily weighted, both educationally and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Fourth Quarter 2015/16 & First Quarter 2016/17 Expenditure Patterns
13 Oct 2016
The Committee met to adopt the Draft Report on the Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and for the First Quarter Expenditure Patterns for 2016/17 financial year, and to be briefed by Committee support staff on the submissions to the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education. However, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
South African Post Office 1 Quarter 2016 performance: hearing
12 Oct 2016
The South African Post Office (SAPO) Chief Executive Officer reported that:
- The analysis of revenue in this period showed stability despite prolonged delay in release of funds. This delay caused 79% overall revenue performance
- Positive cash flows were not generated from operations and under-performance was observed in the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Monitoring of performance and expenditure on outcomes of National Development Plan: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
12 Oct 2016
The Committee met with the Parliamentary Budgetary Office to be briefed on its monitoring on performance and expenditure on the outcomes of the National Development Plan.
Government has already started the process of aligning the long term plans of departments with the NDP and to identify areas where policy change ...
Health
National / Provincial Health Departments audits: Auditor General & FFC input; Medical Research Council on its 2015/16 Annual Report
11 Oct 2016
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) presented on the audit outcomes of the health sector for the 2015/16 financial year. There had been a slight improvement in the audit findings for the provincial health departments, but the Limpopo and North West provinces had regressed in their performance. The major ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing with the Deputy Minister
14 Sep 2016
The Department of Health reported on Q4 2015/16 spending percentages for its programmes: Comprehensive HIV/AIDS grant spending 99.1%, National Health Insurance (NHI) 90.2%, Health Prof Training and Dev Grant (HPTDG) 100%, National Tertiary Services Grant (NTSG) 99.6% and HIV/AIDS 99.9%, Conditional grants (CG) 99.1%, Indirect grants 95.3%, Goods and services ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Basic Education on its Jan-June 2016 performance, with Deputy Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) reported that past issues on which progress had been made included the delivery of school workbooks, as in recent years delivery had been almost 100%. 55 million schoolbooks had been distributed to 24 000 schools. The number of people who had benefited from mass literacy ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017/18 Division of Revenue: Financial and Fiscal Commission Submission
6 Sep 2016
The theme of the 2017/18 FFC submission was the intergovernmental fiscal relations system and rural development. The majority of the South African poor were living in rural areas, which lagged behind on economic performance indicators. The rural economy was no longer just a farm economy. The potential of land reform ...
Health
Department of Health on its 4th quarter 2015/16 report, in presence of Minister
31 Aug 2016
The Committee was briefed on the 2015/16 fourth quarter report and the Conditional Grants expenditure in the Department of Health (NDOH), in the presence of the Minister, who also gave input and answered some questions from the Committee. Programme 1 dealt with the administration of the Department of Health. Performance ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on its 4 Quarter 15/16 & 1 Quarter 16/17 performance
23 Aug 2016
The National Treasury presented on the preliminary revenue and expenditure outcomes for national departments. The main budget deficit amounted to 4.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Departments had spent R699 billion against the final available budget of R706 billion, indicating under-spending of one percent. There had been significant ...