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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet deviations & expansions: hearing, with Minister of Public Enterprises
23 Jan 2018
This meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the board and management of Transnet was called following the aborted meeting that should have taken place on 6 December 2017, when the Members of the Committee had gathered for the meeting together with representatives from the Directorate of ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
2014 Cabinet directive on vetting of SOE officials: SAA & Transnet stalled, with Minister of State Security
7 Dec 2017
Documents handed out: State Security Agency Presentation [awaited]
The Committee met with the State Security Agency in the presence of the Minister for a brief on progress made regarding the 2014 Cabinet directive to have officials in State organs vetted, especially in supply chain management departments and the circumstances that led ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet on deviations and expansions: hearing postponed
6 Dec 2017
This meeting was called to allow Transnet to answer questions regarding contract deviations and expansions, as well as investigations that were being conducted by the Hawks. Transnet had requested condonations of over R200 million on these deviations and expansions. The meeting was a follow up to a meeting that took ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS irregular expenditure; Forensic Data Analysts contracts: hearing with SAPS, SITA, IPID
29 Nov 2017
SITA document annexures available on request
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to discuss patterns of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure within SAPS and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). A DA MP began the hearing by providing photo evidence from a SAPS trip to the UK in 2011 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Transnet contracts, vetting, irregular expenditure, accruals: hearing
28 Nov 2017
Transnet said that vetting was instituted following a 2014 Cabinet decision that all supply chain management (SCM) personnel be vetted. Discussions with organised labour followed on issues of confidentiality and whether all SCM staff had to be vetted. To date only 56 out of 750 staff had supplied all the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Inter-Ministerial Committee briefing on SASSA and SAPO impasse, with Ministers present
8 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Social Development briefed the Joint Meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development. The briefing related to the request by the Committee for a National Treasury review of the SASSA/SAPO procurement process, as well as to attend ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations and expansions of national departments & entities: 2016/17 National Treasury Report
1 Nov 2017
National Treasury briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on its consolidated Report on deviation and expansion for national departments and entities for 2016/17.
Highlights of the brief included the legal framework for supply chain management functions; the principles that must be applied based on Section 217 of the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress in procurement of alternative payment services: hearing
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and Portfolio Committee on Social Development had a joint meeting in which the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) was interrogated on the procurement processes followed by SASSA in acquiring service providers to render a revised grants payment system.
The Committee expressed discontent ...