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NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue 2019/20 submission: Financial and Fiscal Commission briefing
10 Oct 2018
The Committee received input from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the 2019/18 Division of Revenue.
The FFC’s briefing focussed on the re-engineering of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations System (IGFR); recentralisation; provincial fiscal adjustments mechanisms in times of protracted fiscal constraints, using the Health sector as an example; incentive ...
NCOP Finance
Money Bills Amendment Procedure & Related Matters Amendment Bill: briefing & written submissions
9 Oct 2018
The meeting was attended by chairpersons and members of finance committees in the provincial legislatures who took part in discussions. A Senior Parliamentary Legal Adviser provided a clause by clause briefing on the Bill, during which he responded to questions by Members. He also attended to matters raised in written ...
Ad Hoc Committee on North West Intervention
Rescheduled Oversight Visit to North West Province: update
9 Oct 2018
Documents handed out: Content Advisor Document
The Committee met to receive an update on the rescheduled Oversight Visit to the North West Province and to consider and adopt Draft minutes of 06 September 2018.
The Committee heard that an investigation had been instituted to find out the events that had ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Reports: OR Tambo District Municipality oversight visit & Eastern Cape ECD Grant performance
12 Sep 2018
The Select Committee on Appropriations considered and adopted the draft report on the oversight visit to the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape.
During the oversight visit, the Committee had observed there is an escalation of costs and projects that run from one financial year to the next. ...
NCOP Finance
Buffalo City Metro progress report
11 Sep 2018
The National Treasury reported that the Buffalo City metropolitan municipality’s budget assumptions were credible, and revenue estimates were realistic. The Integrated Development Plan (IDP) strategic objectives were aligned to the National Development Plan (NDP), the provincial agenda and the metro growth and development strategy. The capital budget was reflective of ...
NCOP Appropriations
Conditional Grant Reports: Early Childhood Development Grant, Human Settlements Development Grant & Disaster Grant
22 Aug 2018
Conditional grants are used in most decentralised systems of government to enable specified national objectives. The Constitution states that conditional grants must be provided from the national equitable share and that the division of revenue must recognize the role played by conditional grants within the national equitable share.
The Committee ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: progress update & selection of oral submission participants
22 Aug 2018
Constitutional Review Committee Meets to Finalise Participants for Oral Submissions
The Joint Constitutional Review Committee met to discuss a preliminary report on the written submissions and a preliminary report on the public hearings that took place all over the country.
Prior to this, the Committee discussed the media reports that ...
NCOP Finance
IDP, LED & NDP: Mangaung & eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality briefing
21 Aug 2018
Documents handed out: Research document by the Committee researcher (to Members only)
National Treasury reported that matters impacting on audit opinion included non-compliance with Supply Chain Management processes and poor management of indigent registers. Fiscal risks related to service delivery included declines in water revenue, unfunded mandates, and the unresolved conflict ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Public Hearings on Review of Section 25 of Constitution (26 July - 4 August 2018)
17 Jul 2018
In February 2018, the National Assembly adopted a motion proposed by the EFF, with amendments by the ANC, that Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee investigate mechanisms through which land can be expropriated without compensation. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee was mandated by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces ...
Ad Hoc Committee on North West Intervention
North West, National Treasury, Auditor General on NWPG fiscal position
27 Jun 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on the intervention at the North West provincial government was briefed by the National Treasury, the Auditor General (AG), and the province on its fiscal position, governance and financial management.
The province had been placed under administration by the Cabinet, and was now being monitored by ...