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Health Sector Report: briefing by Auditor-General
1 Mar 2017
The Office of the Auditor-General presented the Health Sector report to the Committee. It provided information which had the potential of empowering the Committee during its oversight functions by focusing on key areas of service delivery. The report was based on findings of audits conducted in selected hospitals from the ...
Health
Information sharing meeting with the German Delegation
24 Feb 2017
The Committee met with the delegates from the Budget Committee on Health from Germany. The delegates declared that their intention for coming to South Africa was to learn more about the South African health system and to explore opportunities for co-operation, with a focus on the issues of HIV/AIDS. The ...
Health
Pharmaceuticals management at Departments of Health: Auditor General briefing
22 Feb 2017
A delegation from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) presented their report on the performance audit of the management of pharmaceuticals at the Department of Health. Key findings of the report were separated into different levels of the distribution of pharmaceuticals. These included policies and planning, procurement, distribution to ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages: public hearings
14 Feb 2017
Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) said that in Tembisa, a township in Johannesburg, it was easy to access sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) where advertising for SSBs was at every corner. It could no longer be ignored what multinationals were doing. Almost all schools had their names written on Coca Cola SA billboards; ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Election of the Chairperson
23 Nov 2016
The Committee met to elect the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Filling of Vacancies for Gender Equality. The Committee decided to meet the following week to adopt its programme.