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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IMC on resolution of SASSA/SAPO impasse, with Minister in the Presidency
21 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee briefed a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on resolutions reached towards an agreement between South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) on payment of social grants.
Minister in the Presidency ...
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)
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 ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcomes 2016/17: Auditor-General briefing
17 Oct 2017
The report of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2016/17 financial year showed that there had been little improvement over the past four years in the most common areas of qualification among the government departments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which it had audited. What was of concern was ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
KPMG hearing
5 Oct 2017
The hearing focused on the work handled by KPMG for the South African Revenue Service (SARS); the general operation of KPMG’s work; transparency within the firm; criteria for billing; debate on the refund of money received to carry out work for SARS; KPMG’s inability to ascertain which findings in the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Special Investigating Unit on cases currently being handled
6 Sep 2017
A total of only twenty-nine final reports have been submitted by the Special Investigating Unit to the Presidency since 2009, however, the SIU expects that another twenty-one final reports will be submitted by the end of 2017/18. These include ten reports concerning national government, three reports concerning provincial government, seven ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Deviations by national departments and entities for 2016/17: Treasury briefing
5 Sep 2017
Documents handed out:
Briefing by the National Treasury on procurement through deviation and expansion (not presented)
Spreadsheets on deviation and expansion for National departments and entities (not presented)
The briefing was not presented, as there was a majority position taken by the ANC and the EFF that the session merited ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing with Minister & Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2017
SA Express was called in for a hearing on its irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure incurred in 2015/16. However, looming over this was the fact that SA Express had an unaudited R234m loss in 2016/17, after a R16.9m profit in 2015/6. According to analysts and experts, SAX still had to ...