PARLIAMENTARY MONITORING GROUP: The Week: It’s Budget time in Parliament By Parliamentary Monitoring Group
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has a tough job to do as he seeks to address significant social challenges, satisfy public pressure and reassure investors and ratings agencies, in his Budget speech in Parliament this week.
In addition, there will be a lot of attention on the spending allocated to government’s social and infrastructure programmes and plans to reduce the Budget deficit and public sector wage bill. In his, the minister indicated that after adjusting for inflation, the average government wage rose by 66% in the last 10 years. He may announce measures to cut down on this.
Exercising budgetary and fiscal oversight is one of Parliament’s basic tasks. The Budget presented by the minister is not the final Budget but a proposal that has to be scrutinised and approved by Parliament. Subject for discussion : The ring-fencing of the micro economy for the exclusive use of South Africans Elsewhere, the National House of Traditional Leaders will be officially opened for the 2020 business by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday.The Portfolio Committee on Transport will meet with the minister of transport to discuss the appointment of the Administrator for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa as well as on plans to address challenges at the entity.
In 2019, the Portfolio Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs raised concern regarding the late submission of the annual report by the Department of Co-operative Governance. The committee stated that “the perpetual non-adherence must come to an end and proper consequence management must be implemented henceforth in the case of non-adherence”. The committee will finally be briefed by the department on its 2018/19 performance.
In 2018, the government initiated a countrywide investigation into the corruption allegations levelled against the Office of the State Attorney. Led by the Special Investigating Unit , the investigations have uncovered allegations of apparent collusion between certain officials within the State Attorney’s Office, private legal practitioners and real or fictitious litigants to defraud and conduct other acts of irregular and corrupt activities against the state.
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