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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Hawks current cases
13 Mar 2018
The Hawks gave a briefing on the current status of cases being held in the Department, after bringing attention to matters that were in the public domain in relation to state capture. The Department was quick to note that suspects in the investigation into the Estina dairy project had been ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL irregular, fruitless, wasteful expenditure, deviations, expansions; with Minister and Deputy Minister
7 Mar 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) met to review the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure incurred by the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL). SCOPA was concerned that that SANRAL had consciously ignored Treasury regulations and failed to adhere to the Public Finance Management Act.
SANRAL had continued on ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Integrated Financial Management Systems (IFMS): National Treasury briefing; with Deputy Minister of Finance
6 Mar 2018
The Director General of the National Treasury gave a report on the status of all outstanding issues that had been raised by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) at the previous meeting, and then made a presentation on the progress the Department had made with the implementation of the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Defaulting municipalities: Eskom briefing
6 Mar 2018
SCOPA met with members of the Eskom Board, the Acting CEO and other executives of Eskom as well as the Director-General of Treasury to discuss the debts and the receivables of Eskom. The Committee was concerned about the dangers that the mounting debt posed to the economy. Eskom made a ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure; Forensic Data Analysts and other contracts: hearing
28 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) demanded that the National Police Commissioner resolve the situation concerning the continuation of multimillion rand contracts with Forensic Data Analysts (FDA). The Committee had previously urged the cancellation of FDA’s contracts with the police and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). The FDA ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing
27 Feb 2018
This was quite a tough and uncompromising meeting, during which the Standing Committee on Public Accounts tried to elicit detailed answers from the Department of Water and Sanitation on irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure which had previously been identified in briefings to the Committee. Particular attention was focused on borehole ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure; infrastructure; scholar transport: hearing; with Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, infrastructure issues and scholar transport involving the Department of Basic Education (DBE), with the objective of ensuring that officials of the Department followed due process in all of its projects, and that they were held ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IPID investigations: progress and challenges
20 Feb 2018
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on its investigations, especially that of former acting SAPS National Commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane. The Committee was surprised by the amount of detail presented by the Head of Investigations, including the almost unbelievable story of SAPS ...
Finance Standing Committee
Steinhoff International challenges
31 Jan 2018
The Standing Committee on Finance, Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration held a joint briefing on the Steinhoff crisis together with National Treasury, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the Financial Services Board (FSB), the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Steinhoff Hearing: tabling of correspondence; Committee Programme
30 Jan 2018
The Committee considered and approved the Committee Programme.
The Committee also discussed the tabling of the Steinhoff hearing
The Progress Report on Improvement of Financial Management in PFMA Complaint Institutions (2017) will be discussed tomorrow when the NT comes before the Committee.