The report will deal with procurement from April to August, with details of what was paid to whom and for what, and further reports would be made public on a monthly basis.
National Treasury told MPs that the SABC had asked for R4.9 billion in financial support, the Post Office (Sapo) needed R1.5 billion, and the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) wanted a three-year loan guarantee of R3.5 billion.
Treasury officials on Tuesday briefed Parliament’s standing committee on appropriations on procurement to counter the pandemic.
Answering questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, the President hailed the publication of a list of govt's expenditures since the lockdown as the start of a new era in the fight against graft.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that COVID-19 corruption had presented a situation where the problem could be dealt with.
Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo on Wednesday said while there had been some progress in implementing crucial economic reforms, the slow pace of implementation was worrying.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has had to postpone a meeting with Eskom after being told at the eleventh hour that the board could not attend.
Scopa has had to postpone a meeting with Eskom after being told at the eleventh hour that the board could not attend.
The EFF Bill aims to do away with the Reserve Bank’s private shareholders and make it entirely state-owned. But the party wants the Bank’s 802 private shareholders to be expropriated without compensation.
The Disaster Management Tax Relief and Tax Administration Bills were passed without any parties objecting and will now go before the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) for concurrence.
The contract, awarded to technology services company EOH, was for migrating data on the Home Affairs National Identification System (HANIS) to a new Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS).
This is according to Mabuza’s parliamentary counsellor, African National Congress (ANC) MP Hope Papo.
The trades union federation made the call before Parliament’s small business development oversight committee on Wednesday.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) asked for the debate after the death in the United States of George Floyd triggered global protests.
While ANC speakers used Tuesday’s National Assembly debate on Women’s Day to defend the ruling party’s record, opposition lawmakers slammed the lack of progress.
Parliament’s Home Affairs portfolio committee was briefed on a number of scenarios for overhauling electoral legislation in the wake of the Constitutional Court’s June ruling that declared the Electoral Act unconstitutional.
Mboweni and Treasury officials appeared before Parliament’s finance committees on Wednesday.
Treasury said that government departments would no longer be allowed to choose suppliers and would have to resort to open tender processes in awarding contracts for PPE and COVID-19-related goods and services.
