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Water and Sanitation
Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, Water Research Commission, Inkomati Usuthu Catchment Management Agency, Breede Gouritz Catchment Management Agency 2016/17 Annual Report
5 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met with the water agencies that fall within the ambit of the Department of Water and Sanitation. Although the entities had clean audits and sound administration, there was apparently too little money for nine Catchment Management Agencies. Based on ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor General + National Treasury input, with the Minister
4 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation was briefed by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes for the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) for the 2016/17 financial year and by DWS on its 2016/17 Annual Report.
The AGSA noted that DWS ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy Minister
13 Sep 2017
The first part of the meeting was devoted to the Minister of Water and Sanitation answering a wide range of questions from Members. These were centred on the apparent confusion over senior figures within the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) being suspended, moved around and returning to old posts. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 4: Performance Hearing; with Deputy Minister
6 Sep 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (including the Water Trading Entity) on its Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns for the 2016/17 financial year.
In 2015 the Department had declared eight provinces as disaster stricken due to the drought and in 2017 had declared the Western Cape ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Programme
6 Sep 2017
The Chairperson briefed the Committee on the meeting held on 5 September where quarter 3 and 4 reports as well as the North-West oversight were discussed.
Members raised the issue that there were instances where the Committee had to play the role of local government in dealing with the bucket ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance; with Minister
23 Aug 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Water and sanitation on its first quarter report for 2017/18. Before the briefing, the Committee discussed the recently concluded oversight visit where a situation between a Department official, Ms Zandile Mathe and the Committee Whip, Mr H Chauke (ANC) ...
Water and Sanitation
Section 32 Public Finance Management Act reports: NT briefing; Overberg Water Board: DWS & Overberg Water; with Minister
28 Jun 2017
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) Budget Vote 36, and reported that it had overspent its R15.52 billion allocation by R18.9 million (0.1%). The overspending was related to the Department’s infrastructure programmes. However, there had also been under-spending in other programmes.
A key ...
Water and Sanitation
Construction Unit: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Minister
21 Jun 2017
The Department gave a brief background of the history of the Construction Management Unit (CMU), saying that since the unit’s inception the approach had always been labour intensive until after 1998 when personnel on a contract basis was allowed. The presentation spoke to the staffing of the five CMU regions ...
Water and Sanitation
Irrigation Boards and Water Master Plan: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing, with Deputy Minister
20 Jun 2017
The Committee met to be briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on progress with the transformation of the country’s irrigation boards and the development of a national water and sanitation master plan.
Before the start of the meeting, there was major concern over the late arrival of ...
Water and Sanitation
Overberg & Mhlatuze Water Board briefing on governance challenges, with Deputy Minister
14 Jun 2017
The meeting was called to discuss management and governance challenges at the Overberg and Mhlathuze Water Boards, but was coupled with the Director General (DG) of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) having to explain his failure to appear before the Committee at the previous meeting. In the event, ...