Mineral Resources and Energy
State Capture Inquiry into ex-Mineral Resources Minister: Terms of Reference / Witnesses; Committee DMR Budget Report
25 Apr 2018
A Parliamentary Legal Adviser presented the envisaged terms of reference to the Committee. The background to the inquiry was the release in 2016 of a report by the then Public Protector, that contained findings that pointed to governance failures and maladministration in the DMR, and information on conflict of interest ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Optimum Mine: Minister, DMR, NUM & business rescue progress reports
7 Mar 2018
This was a follow up meeting with the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) to discuss the industrial action, non-payment of workers’ salaries and the placing of Optimum Coal Mine under business rescue. At the previous meeting, the Committee had expressed dissatisfaction with the low-level DMR delegation attending the meeting who ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Non-attendance by Minister of Mineral Resources; Decision on Inquiry into state capture
21 Feb 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Minerals Resources met in order to question the Minister of Mineral Resources about his possible involvement in State Capture. However, two days previously the Chairperson had received a letter stating that the Minister would be unavailable to appear before the Committee. In response to the Chairperson’s ...
Finance Standing Committee
SARS Commissioner on SARS Annual Report and Makwakwa
28 Nov 2017
The agenda for this meeting was the 2016/17 SARS Annual Report; the return to work of suspended SARS Executive, Mr Jonas Makwakwa; the Vlok Symington matter, the SARS Commissioner letter on the KPMG “intelligence report”; illicit financial flows probes; and a proposed judicial commission on SARS. Due to the time ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Lynne Brown
22 Nov 2017
Ms Lynne Brown, Minister of Public Enterprises, attended the parliamentary inquiry and delivered a statement under oath about the capture of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). She said that her appearance before the parliamentary inquiry went against the advice of her legal advisers who had advised her to decline the invitation to ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Activation Programme: briefing
22 Nov 2017
The Commissioner of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) reported on the status of the Labour Activation Programme, with specific reference to the issues that had been raised by the Portfolio Committee during its visit. The targeted breakdown of gender and youth had been partially successful, although the implementation was still ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Zola Tsotsi
22 Nov 2017
Mr Zola Andile Tsotsi, former Eskom Board Chairperson, appeared as a witness. He read a sworn statement to the Committee. He noted that he had had problems in accessing certain information which would have better prepared him for the inquiry
Mr Tsotsi was questioned about:
• A meeting he attended ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Venete Klein, Viroshini Naidoo, Brian Molefe
21 Nov 2017
The Committee invited Ms Venete Klein former Eskom board member to account about corporate governance at Eskom during her tenure as a board member and the chairperson of the people and governance board committee. Ms Klein joined Eskom at the time load shedding was at stage 3 costing the country ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom corporate governance inquiry: David Fine
15 Nov 2017
The Eskom Inquiry continued with a submission from Dr David Fine, Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company, who is currently based in London but was, previously, the Head of McKinsey in South Africa.
Before proceedings began, several Members registered their concerns about people who had begun to verbally attack the ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Khulani Qoma
14 Nov 2017
The Committee heard evidence from Khulani Qoma, General Manager in the Office of the Eskom Board Chairperson, responsible for reputation management as well as board spokesperson. Mr Qoma explained that the objective of his role was to restore confidence in both Eskom and its Board by South Africans. It needed ...