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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
South African Airways & National Treasury hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Deputy Minister
23 Aug 2017
The Committee met with South African Airways (SAA) to discuss the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure accrued by the airliner in 2015/16.
SAA reported that it remained undercapitalised since being moved from Transnet in the 1990s. Undercapitalisation was a legacy problem and SAA had received R19.1 billion worth of guarantees. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Water Affairs irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure & accruals, with Minister: hearing 3
22 Aug 2017
SCOPA met with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up hearing to that in May 2017. At that meeting the Committee had not been satisfied with the answers given DWS and wanted to hear from the Minister herself on the progress made by the Department on irregular, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPO on payment of services: SASSA progress report
15 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the South African Social Security Agency (SASS) on progress made thus far with the South African Post Office (SAPO) regarding their intention to take over the payment of social security grants from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) when the 12-month period ended on 31 March ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT): pending cases and Criminal Asset Recovery Account (CARA)
14 Jun 2017
Documents handed out:
Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) presentation [wasn’t able to obtain]
The SCOPA meeting with the Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) was a follow up to the previous meeting where Committee members had raised concerns about the sentences meted out to those found guilty of crime and corruption. The Hawks ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAPS members conflict of interest / doing business with the state: hearing, with Deputy Minister
13 Jun 2017
The SCOPA hearing with the South African Police Service (SAPS) was the result of a presentation by the Auditor-General that showed that SAPS had the highest number of officials who had a conflict of interest in that they were involved with companies doing business with SAPS or with other state ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Correctional Services on Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure: hearing, with Deputy Minister
7 Jun 2017
The Committee met for a hearing with the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), including the Commissioner of the Department and Deputy Minister Thabang Makwetla, on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Before the meeting got underway, Members registered displeasure with the Department not providing requisite information and/or making pertinent information available ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water Affairs: hearing 2
31 May 2017
SCOPA had arranged the hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up to an unsatisfactory hearing in November 2016. In addition to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, the DWS accruals and commitments were added to the agenda. As it turned out, Committee came close to declaring the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Eskom coal supply agreements with Tegeta: hearing with Minister
30 May 2017
The primary reason for the engagement with was Eskom to get an understanding and clarity about why certain things happened and certain things did not, based on the two reports by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) that Eskom themselves had commissioned to seek clarity on areas of deficiency and to be able to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SABC Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure: update with Minister
17 May 2017
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) gave an update on its irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, particularly the contract with the auditing company, Sekela Xabiso. Sekela Xabiso (SkX) was engaged to detect irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure from financial year 2010/11, and to implement sustainable improvements to the Supply Chain ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA court decision implementation; SASSA irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure: hearing
16 May 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) had called for a report from SASSA on the status of implementation of the Constitutional Court decision about Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). The SASSA Manager for Special Projects went through the progress made on the court orders. SASSA was compiling the first quarterly ...