Questions and Replies

19 December 2018 - NW3062

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether the SA Revenue Service (Sars) conducted any due diligence investigations to check the qualifications of a certain person (name furnished) prior to appointing the specified person to the specified position; if not, why was due diligence not conducted; if so, (2) whether Sars found any inaccuracies; if so, what (a) are the relevant details and (b) action was taken to correct the person’s qualifications for the specified position?

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Reply:

1. A certain person (name furnished) was recruited through the utilization of services of an employment agency; she commenced her duties as a Chief Officer - DIST at SARS on May 1, 2017. As per the recruitment policy of SARS in July 2016, prior her appointment a due diligence on her qualifications as indicated on her CV was conducted. A due diligence was conducted on the following qualifications prior her appointment and were Verified:

Diploma in Practical Accounting, Damelin, 1996
Diploma in Bookkeeping, Damelin, 1996
Diploma in Business Organization & Management, Damelin, 1997
Diploma in Personnel Training and Management, Damelin, 1997
Masters of Business Administration, University of North West, 2004

A due diligence was not conducted on the following foreign qualifications prior her appointment:

6. General Certificate of Education. University of Cambridge, 1985

7. Diploma in Information Technology, Square one, Data processing College, 1987.

SARS places responsibility for verification of Foreign Qualifications on the applicant through the South African Qualifications Authority and employment is conditional to these verifications.

2. Whether SARS found any inaccuracies; if so, what (a) are the relevant details and (b) action was taken to correct the person’s qualifications for the specified position?

The General Certificate of Education issued by the University of Cambridge has been evaluated to be equivalent to NQF level 3 Intermediate Certificate by the South African Qualifications Authority. For ease of understanding the NQF level 3 Intermediate Certificate is equivalent to Grade 11 in the South African context. (Reference, SAQA National Qualifications Framework).

With regards to the Diploma in Information Technology issued by Square one, Data processing College, the employee has not provided SARS with an evaluation result by SAQA of this qualification.

The matter of the Employee’s qualifications has not yet been concluded as the employee is currently on an extended sick leave.

19 December 2018 - NW3485

Mhlongo, Mr P to ask the Minister of Finance

What qualifications and experience did a certain person (name furnished) have to be considered for appointment in certain positions (details furnished)?

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Reply:

A certain person (name furnished) was appointed as Chief Officer Strategy, Enforcement and Enablement (SEE) on the 1/02/2011. The appointment was based on his extensive experience in enforcement within the Security Cluster. When he commenced his employment at SARS in 1999 he was appointed at a Chief Director level.

It is understood that the SARS qualification framework at that time made provision for either minimum qualifications and/or a number of years relevant experience as requirements for appointment. A certain person (name furnished) was then appointed on the basis of his experience.

In the 2009 Financial year three Senior SARS staff were designated as Deputy Commissioners of which Mr Ivan Pillay was one. He was never appointed as Commissioner but only Acted in that role.

According to SARS records, a certain person (name furnished) holds a grade 12 qualification.

Date	Job Title	Department	Grade
1999/04/01	Chief Director	Investigation Administration	DPSA Level 14
2000/06/01	Chief Director	Comp Si Head Office	DPSA Level 14
2000/07/01	GM: COMPLIANCE	Comp Si Head Office	9
2004/01/24	GM:ENFORCEMENT & RISK	Cmd: Compliance	9
2005/04/01	GM:ENFORCEMENT & RISK	Enforcement	9
2011/01/01	Chief Officer: Enforcement & Compl Risk	Enforcement & Compliance Risk	9
2011/02/01	Deputy Commissioner / Chief Officer: SEE	Office of the Commissioner	9
2012/05/01	CO: Strategy Enablement & Enforcement	Office of the Commissioner	9
2013/10/01	CO: Strategy Enablement & Communication	Office of the Commissioner	9

19 December 2018 - NW3379

Mashabela, Ms N to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether a certain person (name furnished) was given downloaded material during the period 1 January 1999 up to 31 December 2009 of the alleged illegal bugging of the offices of the SA Police Service and the Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions); if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

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Reply:

The Acting Commissioner of SARS has informed me that SARS has no evidence of any such incident(s).

19 December 2018 - NW3311

Mashabela, Ms N to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)(a) On what date was the information technology (IT) infrastructure of (i) the National Treasury and (ii) entities reporting to him last upgraded or updated, (b) what is the name of the company contracted to do the upgrades, (c) what was the monetary value of the contract and (d) what is the name of each IT system that was upgraded; (2) (a) what is the name of the company that is currently responsible for the maintenance of the IT systems of (i) the National Treasury and (ii) entities reporting to him and (b) what is the value of the contract?

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Reply:

NATIONAL TREASURY

(1)(a)(i) 21 December 2016

(1)(a)(i)(b) Storage Technology Services (Pty) Ltd (StorTech)

(1)(a)(i)(c) R13,574,635.87

National Treasury shares infrastructure with Government Technical Advisory Centre and Co-operative Banks Development Agency.

(1)(a)(i)(d) Underlying IT Infrastructure that supports all applications and services, was upgraded.

(2)(a)(i) Maintenance of the IT systems is done within National Treasury.

(2)(a)(i)(b) N/a

ASB

1. The Accounting Standards Board uses off-the-shelf software without any amendments or modifications. All the computers were upgraded to Windows 10 on 26 October 2018. The upgrades were done by ITWindows CC and the cost of the upgrade was R10 062.50.

2. All IT maintenance is outsourced to ITWindows CC and the monthly fee is R5 500. The contract is for a twelve-month period, but can be cancelled with a 30-day notice period.

CBDA

CBDA uses National Treasury IT infrastructure at no cost. Please see information below provided by the National Treasury.

Date when the information technology (IT) infrastructure procurement	21-Dec-16
Name of Service Provider	Stortech
Value of Requisition	R 13,574,635.87
Nature of goods	Underlying IT Infrastructure that supports all applications and services was upgraded
Maintenance	In-house
Note:	CBDA shares infrastructure with GTAC and National Treasury hence costs are shared

DBSA

(a) (ii), (b) (c) (d)

DBSA applies the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes of reviewing and inviting bidders for ICT services every three years (3 years). Provisions are in place to also re-evaluate sole source vendors on a minimum annual basis. The core ICT systems and ICT infrastructure purchases done is shown on Section 1 of the below table.

Section 1. Update / Term Contracts
Core Infrastructure	Vendor	Update Date	Contract End Date	Value	Comments
Servers and Storage	Puleng Technologies	Jul-14	N/A	R7,452,017.29	Capex purchase of IBM Server/Storage equipment.
Local Area Network	Bytes Technologies	Jul-14	N/A	R11,519,640.00	Capex purchase of Cisco Network equipment.
Wi-Fi Network	Bytes Technologies	Sep-17	N/A	R7,582,621.38	Capex purchase of Cisco Wi-Fi equipment.
Telephone System	Gijima	Jan-16	N/A	R4,211,373.77	Capex purchase of NEC Telephone system
Multifunction Printers	Dido	May-18	Apr-21	R6,874,929.00	3 year agreement for the provision of multi-function printers
Backup and DR Services	Global Continuity SA	Apr-18	Mar-21	R3,705,300.00	3 year agreement for the provision of data backup and disaster recovery services
Internet Bandwidth and related services	Internet Solutions	May-18	Apr-21	R9,564,256.68	3 year agreement for the provision of Internet Bandwidth, hosting, APN, video conference bridge and web content filtering
Core Systems	Vendor	Update Date	Contract End Date	Value	Comments
SAP	SAP	Jul-16	N/A	R5,133,120.25	Last major update on Human Capital, Financials, Loans, Procurement
Quantum (Treasury System)	FIS Global	Apr-18	N/A	R3,090,675.00	Last major upgrade due to IFRS 9

(a) (ii) (b)

The SCM processes are applied for ICT services for maintenance and support contracts. Section 2 and 3 covers the core ICT systems and ICT Infrastructure maintenance & support and licencing.

Section 2.Licenses
Software	Vendor	Contract Start Date	Contract End Date	Value	Update Frequency	Last Update	Comments
Microsoft Productivity Tools - DBSA	Microsoft	Jul-16	Jun-19	$597,296.79	Monthly	Oct-18	3 year agreement for Microsoft Windows, Office, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Data Centre and Client Access Licenses
Microsoft Productivity Tools - IDD	First Technologies	Oct-17	Sep-20	R1,705,089.39	Monthly	Oct-18	3 year agreement for Microsoft Windows, Office and Client access licenses. Subscription licenses procured to allow for flexibility
Microsoft Server licenses	Microsoft	Jul-17	Jun-20	$344,355.48	Monthly	Oct-18	3 year agreement for Microsoft SQL licenses
SAP Licenses (ERP)	SAP	Feb-09	N/A	R3,653,043.00	Annually	Aug-18	Country Legislative Changes (e.g. Tax, Budget, etc.) Vendor review conducted annually
Quantum (Treasury System) licenses	FIS Global	Dec-04	N/A	R1,900,000.00	OEM release schedule	Sep-18	OEM release schedule and Legislative (IFRS9) Vendor review conducted annually

Section 3. Maintenance and Support
Core Infrastructure	Vendor	Contract Start Date	Contract End Date	Value	Update Frequency	Last Update	Comments
Servers and Storage	IBM	May-17	May-19	R1,560,888.60	As per OEM release schedule	Jul-18	2 year maintenance contract for hardware and software support
Local Area Network	Datacentrix	Mar-18	Feb-21	R6,392,728.00	As per OEM release schedule	Aug-18	3 year maintenance for hardware and software support, combined into one contract including both Wi-Fi and LAN
Wi-Fi Network	Datacentrix	Mar-18	Feb-21		As per OEM release schedule	Jul-18
Core Systems	Vendor	Contract Start Date	Contract End Date	Value			Comments
SAP	Gijima	May-17	Apr-20	R14,645,493.55	Monthly	Oct-18	3-year support and maintenance of SAP system
Quantum (Treasury System)	FIS Global	Apr-17	N/A	R312,500.00		Apr-18	Annual support and maintenance fee

FAIS OMBUD

No upgrades being done.
(a) Hubtech Investment is currently responsible for the maintenance of the IT System

(b) R263 547.00

FIC

(1) The Financial Intelligence Centre’s information is as below:

(a)(ii) Year	(b) Supplier	(c) Value	(d) Description of Infrastructure Hardware – Last 3 years
02/11/2015	Datacentrix	R 2 782 641.00	Cisco IPS
23/09/2015	Nambiti	R 169 269.20	Dell Server – Extra SQL host
04/12/2015	Sizwe	R 285 504.04	Cisco Routers
24/11/2015	Sithabile	R 315 903.39	Quantum Tape library
20/11/2015	Sizwe	R 1 534 947.64	Cisco Routers and Switches
24/03/2016	DEP Technologies	R 278 423.81	SAN storage upgrades
30/11/2016	Sizwe	R 2 607 191.95	Cisco Routers and Switches
16/10/2016	First Technology	R 187 567.85	VMWare Site recovery Manager
09/09/2016	DEP Technologies	R 225 818.82	VEEAM Backup software
02/12/2016	Edzenel Construction	R 160 611.06	Sophos firewalls
16/01/2017	JOS Electronics	R 142 249.18	Sophos Firewalls
16/02/2017	Dell	R 457 183.96	Dell Server Memory
23/03/2017	Sizwe	R 1 140 279.44	Video Conferencing equipment
27/08/2018	Data Science	R 6 556 109.01	Pure SAN storage

(2)(ii) The Financial Intelligence Centre’s information is as below:

(a) Supplier	(b) Value
Business Connexion	R 1 188 482.28
Tendai Group	R 124 200.00
DEP	R 166 200.00
SITA	R 522 105.46
Sizwe	R 109 997.00
Dell	R1 419 449.08

FSCA

There were several information technology (IT) infrastructures upgrades over the past 3-4 years and this upgrade was driven by the need to refresh the aging technology that was about to reach end of useful and support life and were becoming uneconomical to maintain.

1. (a) The Information Technology (IT) infrastructure at the FSCA was upgraded as follows:

• The server and storage infrastructure in the production and in the disaster recovery environments were upgraded in March 2016 and March 2017;

• The server and storage infrastructure in the development and User Acceptance testing environments were upgraded in March 2018;

• The security and network optimisation and load balancing infrastructure (F5) was upgraded in September 2017 and in February 2018;

• The first phase of the audio visual equipment took place in June 2017 and the second phase of the upgrade is in progress. It is anticipated to be completed in February 2019;

• The network infrastructure is in the process of being upgraded with the anticipated project completion date March 2019.

(b) and (c) The infrastructure upgrades were conducted by different companies and the names of the companies contracted to do so as well as the monetary values are as follows:

		( b )	( c )
IT infrastructure Upgrade	Date Completed	Contracted Company	Contract Value
Server infrastructure upgrade for the Production and DR environments	March 2016	Ubuntu Technologies	R 1 322 706.03
	March 2016	Bytes Systems Integration	R 697 766.43
	March 2017	Nambiti Technologies	R 2 392 429.09
Server and storage infrastructure upgrade in the Non production environments. Additional servers for the Production and DR environments	March 2018	Aptronics (Pty) Ltd	R 13 586 783.61
Storage infrastructure for the production and DR environments	March 2016	Dell SA	R 7 930 160.00
Implementation of the wireless network at the FSCA head office	March 2017	Business Connexions	R 832 778.37
Server and storage infrastructure for the new FSCA organization in the production and DR environments	March 2018	Aptronics (Pty) Ltd	R 7 959 089.16
Network virtualisation infrastructure (XSIGO) was replaced in the production environment	March 2018	Eclipse (Pty) Ltd	R 992 618.27
Security and network optimisation and load balancing infrastructure (F5 appliance ) in the production and DR environment	September 2017	XON (Pty) Ltd	R 3 907 780.18
	March 2018	XON (Pty) Ltd	R 8 181 600.01
Audio visual equipment in the process of being upgraded in the production environment	June 2017	VOX Telecoms	R 564 106.18
	March 2019	AE Solutions	R 2 372 507.50
Installation of server racks and network cabinets – Project in progress	March 2019	IT Master	R 2 005 954.60
Network infrastructure is in the process of being upgraded in the Non production, Production and DR environments	March 2019	Sizwe IT Group	R 4 661 860.89
Microsoft Skype for business is in the process of being upgraded pending approval	March 2019	Omega Solution	R 1 928 943.43

2. (a) The company contracted to maintain the IT systems, in particular the provision of desktop and infrastructure support services, is Aptronics (Pty) Ltd and the contract value is R30 million over a period of five years, which commenced on 09 December 2015.

GEPF

The Government Pensions Administration Agency provides ICT services to the GEPF.

GPAA

System	Last Upgraded	Name of company	Monetary Value of contract	Company currently responsible	Value of contract for current contract
1.CIVPEN	June 2014 (will be phased out/replaced by 2021)	Accenture	R 17 538 555	IBM (hardware is currently under a maintenance and support agreement with IBM until 30 September 2021)	R 4 812 506
2.ORACLE Infrastructure	March 2014 (Refresh planned for 2020)	Accenture	R 23 651 835	ORACLE (Currently under Oracle Premier Support until 31 March 2019 through SITA)	R 2 307 132
3.HP Infrastructure	April 2014 (Refresh planned for 2020)	EOH	R 23 995 085 Plus R 3 369 116	EOH (currently the equipment is still under a maintenance and Support contract with HP until 31 March 2020)	R 6 093 514 for all HP infrastructure

IRBA

Hardware

(1) (a) (ii) All significant hardware components are subject to the warranties from the manufacturer.

The Warranties still active no upgrades are required.

(b) Manufacturers are Dell and HP.

(d) Dell servers and HP switch.

(2) (a) (ii) Bytes Systems Integration a division of Altron TMT (Pty) Ltd.

(b) R4, 824 963.00 (Tender value from June 2017 to June 2022, a five year contract)

Software (Significant Systems)

(1) (a) (ii) Windows Server Updates - This is done weekly - 2 November 2018

FlowCentric - When updates are available - January 2016

AccPac - This is done annually - March 2018

(b) Windows Server Updates - Bytes Systems Integration

FlowCentric - FlowCentric (Pty) Ltd

AccPac - Lorge Consulting (Pty) Ltd

(c & d) Windows Server Updates - Included under 2 (b) under hardware

FlowCentric - R131 426.04 (2016)

AccPac - R30 245 (2018/19)

(2) (a) Windows Server Updates - Bytes Systems Integration

FlowCentric - FlowCentric (Pty) Ltd

AccPac - Lorge Consulting (Pty) Ltd

(b) Windows Server Updates - Included under 2 (b) under hardware

FlowCentric - R374 834 (Year to date)

AccPac - R8 115 (Previous financial year)

LAND BANK

Response to questions as follows:

Question (1) – see link Annexure “A’
Question (2) – see link Annexure “B”

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW3311_AnnexureB.pdf

PFA

(1) (a) July 2018

(b) Nambiti Technologies Pty (Ltd),

(d) Provision of ICT equipment, installation and support for the data centre.

(2) (a)(ii) The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator has a service level agreement with the Financial Sector Conduct Authority for ICT support and maintenance. The following companies are used for ICT security management support:

Computer Security and Forensic Solutions Pty (Ltd) – Network protection and events monitoring and management
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd – Firewall management
Securicom Ltd – Email security management

PIC

(1)

(2) Other than the companies mentioned above, the PIC does not have any company that is responsible for the maintenance of IT systems.

SARS

Question 1 response

The SARS ICT Infrastructure is used to provide both support functions as well as enabling core business functions (processes). It is a heterogeneous infrastructure landscape consisting of various technology architectures sourced through formal procurement vehicles.

The SARS strategy for ICT infrastructure renewal is based on a rolling upgrade cycle in terms of infrastructure that reaches end of life in a fiscal year. This is used to request budget but actual implementation is subject to final budget approval that is not guaranteed.

Renewal of infrastructure and providing infrastructure support is categorised and handled in the following ways:

SARS follows formal procurement process to establish ICT service provider towers for a minimum of 3 years. Each tower has a formally appointed vendor for the provisioning of ICT services within that category:

Tower	Scope	Service Provider
D	Data Carrier Services	IS
V	Voice Carrier Services	IS
I	Internet and Hosting Services	Vodacom
SMS	SMS Carrier Services	MTN & Telkom
N	Network Support Services	Sizwe
S	Server Support Services	Gijima
E	End-user Device Support Services	Sizwe

From an infrastructure refresh perspective, SARS uses the appointed vendors listed above in combination with formal procurement tenders established by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA Transversals), SARS administered tenders as well as formally approved National Treasury tenders and exemptions to refresh ICT infrastructure that has reached replacement status for each fiscal year.

In terms of question 1) above the following ICT Infrastructure was updated/upgraded.

2015/16 financial year:

ICT Infrastructure CAPITAL Expenditure	Cost	Supplier
Security infrastructure	R43 593 554,00	IBM
Infrastructure licensing	R 8 964 259,00	Microsoft
Enterprise data storage	R 8 160 694,00	IBM
Transport network infrastructure	R 6 725 590,00	Cisco
IT facility infrastructure	R9 173 409,00	BTS, Merque Communications
End User Devices	R 2 342 702,00	Dell, Lenovo
Voice networking infrastructure	R 7 966 854,00	Cisco
Midrange servers capacity upgrades	R 3 361 006,00	IBM
Audio visual equipment	R 517 803,00	Other
Total	R90 805 871,00

2016/17 Financial year:

ICT Infrastructure CAPITAL Expenditure	Cost	Supplier
* IBM Software renewal	R97 616 255,00	IBM
*Midrange Servers	R52 728 191,00	IBM
*Enterprise data storage	R81 829 559,00	IBM & Ubuntu
*Mainframe replacement	R18 936 395,00	IBM
Commodity class servers	R17 754 055,00	Microsoft
Digital signage solution	R13 693 901,00	Bytes
End User Devices	R12 335 494,00	Dell, Lenovo
Transport network infrastructure	R 4 017 513,00	Cisco
Contact Centres data storage refresh	R 3 380 873,00	IBM
Microsoft software licences	R 2 599 525,00	Microsoft
Total	R304 891 761,00

* These items reflect the 3 year IBM Enterprise Agreement and are the reason for the big escalation in capital expenditure

2017/18 financial year:

ICT Infrastructure CAPITAL Expenditure	Cost	Supplier
Refresh of end of life commodity class servers	R24 133 311,57	Dell
Backup storage capacity upgrade	R 4 116 941,60	EMC
IT Facilities and Offices, Generators	R 4 968 616,30	BTS, Merque Communications
IBM WebSphere renewal	R 3 955 745,58	IBM
Personal Computers - Monitors, Laptops and Desktops refresh	R 3 304 820,64	Dell, Lenovo
SAP Licenses	R32 904 235,00	SAP
Casewise Enterprise Architecture tool	R5 999 757,00	Casewise
VMWARE software capacity	R2 675 570,00	VMware
Total	R 82 058 997,69

2018/19 financial year:

ICT Infrastructure CAPITAL Expenditure	Cost	Supplier
Personal Computers - Monitors, Laptops and Desktops refresh	R15 841 566,00	Dell, Lenovo
Refresh of end of life commodity class servers	R14 851 195,84	Dell
Renewal of Enterprise Content Management Maintenance Services	R12 036 532,50	OpenText
Network Infrastructure Refresh	R10 441 869,38	Cisco
Contact Centre Media Servers Renewal	R 7 230 810,25	Radisys
Casewise Enterprise Architecture tool	R 996 511,00	Casewise
IT Facilities and Offices, Generators	R 4 140 644,32	BTS, Merque Communications
Total	R65 539 129,29

The 2018/19 infrastructure expenditure does not show current projects in execution as this is only shown upon project completion. One such example is the renewal of the eFiling infrastructure and migration to the new data centre with a total estimated value of R 197 m. Another example is the equipment for the Disaster Recovery Facilities with a total estimated value of R54m. Both these projects are expected to be completed in April 2019.

Question 2 response

As per question 2 above and in addition to the infrastructure hardware and software that enables and support the SARS business, the following Business Systems are also maintained and supported by external vendors.

Period covered	Business System	Description	Supplier	2018/19 Average Annual Maintenance and Support Value	3 Yrs Contracts values
					BAU (Maintenance & Support)	Project and Capex	Procurement vehicle Total
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019	eFiling	SARS premier digital channel for the submission of a variety of tax returns including VAT, PAYE, SDL, UIF, Income Tax, STC and Provisional Tax through the eFiling website.	Shandon Business Solutions	R 10 713 000	R 35 000 000	R 140 000 000	R 175 000 000
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019	e@syFile™	SARS offline capability that assists the taxpayer to manage engagement with SARS and validate declarations in offline mode before sending them to SARS.	Ionize	R 15 659 000	R 50 000 000	R 45 000 000	R 95 000 000
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019	ATP/Service Manager/IVR/Telephony/U3TM	A collective of integrated systems that offer Case Management, Workflows, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Telephony for Contact Centres and Master Entity capabilities.	BBD	R 45 651 000	R 128 000 000	R 355 000 000	R 483 000 000
01.01.2016 - 31.12.2020	SAP (ERP, SRM, Sourcing, HR)	A collective of SAP modules that provide both revenue collection accounting functionality as well as corporate ERP (internal) capability.	SAP	R 35 196 000	R 129 796 838	R 160 554 000	R 290 350 838
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019	iCBS (DPS, CPS)	The Customs ecosystem of capabilities to ensure processing of Customs declarations and other supporting functions	Interfront (SOC)	R 24 763 000	R 85 000 000	R 400 000 000	R 485 000 000
TOTALS **				R 131 982 000	R 427 796 838	R 1 100 554 000	R 1 528 350 838

** The above list does not include any SARS internally developed and maintained systems

** These totals are 3year procurement vehicle value

SASRIA

Please refer below, at Table 1 for a reply.

Date last updated	Company responsible for upgrades	Monetary value	IT system
2018/08/01	Darktrace and Antegina	R 500 000	New security monitoring system to enhance our security
2016/09/01	AlienVault SIEM	R 500 000	New security management tool for internal and external vulnerability
2018/10/01	Data Guardian	R 150 000	Windows Server Upgrade Project and Commvault Disaster Recovery Live Sync
2016 -2018	Internet Solution	R 1 200 000	Management of comprehensive internet solution. External firewall management
2017/04/01	Metrofile	R 141 072	Backup Storage
2019/06/	Dimension Data	R 350 000	Expansion of the Wi-Fi including new WiFiless devices, WI-FI Expansion Cisco ASA Firewall & VPN
2017/04/01	Ilanga	R 823 755	Annual IMS Services, Licenses and Maintenance
2018/04/01	DCX- Hewlett Packard/ESS Disaster Recovery/ DCX	R 225 014	Disaster Recovery Services and Hosting
2016/04/01	IDI Technology Solutions	R 23 000	GP- Great Plains Micro Dynamic Support and licenses
2018/04/01	Great Soft(Pty) Ltd	R 378 000	Subscription and Support to BoardPad Software
2017/06/30	GX Diesel	R 16 850	Generator Maintenance Services and Power generation
2014/05/26	Software AG South Africa (Pty)Ltd	R 498 000	ARIS Software Licenses, Support, Maintenance
2017/03/01	Seventynine Digital	R 41 400	Website Maintenance & Support
2016/10/06	Fraxion (Pty)Ltd	R 28 000	Fraxion Software License
2014/05/26	Software AG South Africa (Pty)Ltd	R 490 637	Renewal ARIS Software Licenses, Support, Maintenance
2018/02/01	Isometrix	R 94 000	Isometrix Upgrade & Annual Licenses
2018/04/01	Cortell Management Solutions	R 264 175	IBM Cognos Licenses renewals
2018/04/01	Intervate Solutions	R 980 000	Web Rates Calculator
2018/05/01	Dimension Data	R 110 000	WI-FI Expansion
2018/08/01	Dimension Data	R 150 000	Cisco ASA new Firewall & VPN upgrade
2018/08/01	Microsoft	R 1 100 000	New Office 365
2018/11/01	EOH	R 100 000	Cisco 3850 Catalyst Switches for network connectivity
2018/11/01	Bytes Technology	R 300 000	2x Brocade Fibre Switches to enhance storage capability
2018/11/01	Interconnect Systems	R 300 000	Setting up new office space: 34 Fricker Road, Cisco 3850 Catalyst Switches & WI-FI devices

TAX OMBUD

The Office of the Tax Ombud utilizes the SARS IT infrastructure. All updates or upgrades are done by SARS.
Maintenance of the IT systems is done by SARS.

18 December 2018 - NW3488

Alberts, Mr ADW to ask the Minister of Finance

(1) (a) In terms of the legal prescriptions the National Credit Regulator (NCR) relies on for any powers to raise debt counselling fees, which were introduced as an interim measure in 2008, (b) whether the measures are binding in any way and (c) what are the specific legal precepts; (2) why National Treasury has not submitted any amendments in terms of section 171 of the Credit Act, Act 34 of 2005, to Parliament to authorise the Minister to prescribe debt counsellors’ fees in the regulations; (3) (a) on which directives in South African legislation does the NCR rely to enforce any guidelines when article 16(1)(b)(i) of the Credit Act stipulates the NCR's guidelines as non-enforceable and (b) why the guidelines have subsequently, as prescribed in the Constitution, 1996, also not been followed up with public feedback through an official notice in the Government Gazette by the Minister; (4) (a) what company has been appointed by the NCR to conduct the investigation regarding debt counselling fees, (b) whether the tender processes have been followed properly, (c) what is the cost relating to the investigation and (d) how the expense is justified when such investigation has been suspended after four months?

Source
Link

Reply:

The National Credit Act, 35 of 2005 does not fall under the mandate of the National Treasury.

The question should rather be directed to the National Credit Regulator and the Department of Trade and Industry.

18 December 2018 - NW3164

McLoughlin, Mr AR to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)In view of China’s recent moves to reintroduce a gold standard for the Chinese Yuan, are the BRICS countries, such as South Africa, being encouraged to do likewise; if so, what is South Africa’s position on such a move; (2) what benefit has South Africa derived from being a partner in the New Development Bank so far?

Source
Link

Reply:

1. China has not reintroduced a gold standard for the Chinese Yuan. This issue has not been discussed under the auspices of the BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meetings.

2. The New Development Bank has already approved US$680 million in project financing for South Africa. In addition, the NDB employs 18 South African professionals both at the Africa Regional Centre (Sandown, South Africa) and at the bank’s headquarters (Shanghai, China).

18 December 2018 - NW3188

Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)What is the current financial status of the Maruleng Local Municipality in Limpopo with regard to (a) debtors days, (b) collection rates and (c) creditor days; (2) what (a) total amount does the specified municipality currently owe to (i) Eskom and (ii) its bulk water supplier and (b) is the detailed breakdown of the amounts owed in each case in terms of (i) 30 days and (ii) more than 90 days; (3) whether he has found that the billing system used by the specified municipality is functional and provides residents with accurate billing on a monthly basis; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Source
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Reply:

The following information has been reported in the monthly section 71 report for the quarter ended 30 June 2018. This information was verified and signed on by the Municipal Manager and Chief Financial Officer of the Maruleng Local Municipality:

(1)(a) Debtors

The Debtors Age analysis shows the municipality is owed an amount of R82.7 million by customers (households, business and government); of which 81.6 per cent or R67 million is due for over 90 days.

(1)(b) Collection Rates

The Municipality reported a Collection Rate of 74.7 per cent against billed revenue of R75.1 million for the 2017/18 financial year. The billed revenue comprises of property rates being levied on ratable properties and service charges for provision of waste management service (refuse removal).

(1)(c) Creditors

The municipality owes suppliers and contractors a total of R223 thousands; of which R203 thousands or 91.2 per cent is due by the municipality within 30 days.

(2)(a)(i)(ii) (2)(b)(i)(ii)

The municipality is not an Electricity Licensee and only accounts for own electricity consumption, therefore it does not owe money for bulk supplier (ESKOM and Lepelle Northern Water)

(3) The billing system used by the municipality is functional and residents are billed accurately for property rates and waste refuse removal

18 December 2018 - NW2897

Mulaudzi, Adv TE to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the reply to question 2495 on 4 October 2018, did any metropolitan municipality in the past five financial years outsource a function which was previously insourced; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) what function was outsourced, (b) on what date, (c) to whom and (d) what was the total monetary value of the contract?

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Reply:

According to the information at the disposal of National Treasury, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is the only municipality that has outsourced a function which was previously insourced. The function outsourced is Waste Management Services and this has been outsourced for a period of more than five (5) years. The expenditure incurred is about R500 million per annum. This particular service is outsourced to a panel of contractors.

18 December 2018 - NW3338

Wessels, Mr W to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)What is the (a) percentage of tax returns of (i) private individuals and (ii) businesses that are selected for auditing annually and (b) average turnaround time of such audits; (2) what is the (a) turnaround time for paying amounts that are due to (i) private individuals and (ii) businesses and (b) total amount that is still due as at the latest date for which information is available; (3) whether he will make a statement on the matter?

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Reply:

(1)

The percentage of tax returns that are selected for audit and the associated turnaround time of these audits are shown in the following tables: Commissioner please note that this point relates specific to cases that are routed for audit. You will see

For the current financial year (2018/19) to date 31 October 2018:

Tax Type	Taxpayer	Returns Received	Returns Selected for Audit	(a) %Audits	(b) avg. TAT for Audit(W Days)
Income Tax	i) Companies	650,051	42,416	6.5%	45d
	ii) Individuals	5,678,840	1,476,677	26.0%	28d
	Trusts	95,408	19,715	20.7%	30d
VAT	(i & ii)	2,151,221	270,670	12.6%	42d

For the previous financial year (2017/18) to date 31 March 2018:

Tax Type	Taxpayer	Returns Received	Returns Selected for Audit	(a) %Audits	(b) avg. TAT for Audit(W Days)
Income Tax	i) Companies	1,003,930	49,808	5.0%	69d
	ii) Individuals	6,474,838	1,594,302	24.6%	44d
	Trusts	168,081	43,206	25.7%	52d
VAT	(i & ii)	3,435,900	257,949	7.5%	44d

(2)

a) The turnaround times for refunds to taxpayers are shown in the following tables: This table includes non-audited cases hence the TAT is lower. It does however show audit as the bottleneck. You can give a view on planned work, reducing audit alerts, where possible delinking audit from refund process.

For the current financial year (2018/19) to date 31 October 2018:

Tax Type	Taxpayer	Number of Refunds Paid	Value of Refunds Paid	avg. TAT for Refund (W Days)
Income Tax	i) Companies	31,431	-11,656,141,104	14d
	ii) Individuals	2,111,140	-19,891,039,717	10d
VAT	(i & ii)	282,751	-122,105,382,787	29d

For the previous financial year (2017/18) to date 31 March 2018:

TaxType	TaxPayer	Number of Refunds Paid	Value of Refunds Paid	avg. TAT for Refund (W Days)
Income Tax	i) Companies	55,993	-13,587,950,231	16d
	ii) Individuals	2,693,371	-26,801,336,863	13d
VAT	(i & ii)	401,475	-191,070,644,045	23d

(b)

The SARS Credit Book for the applicable tax types as on 11 November 2018: It is important to note that the spike in 2018/19 PIT credit book is mainly as a result of the fact that filing season has just concluded and we are not comparing the same period. The increase in VAT credit book is as a result of the absolute 1% (7% relative terms) increase. With the increased VAT refund allocation of R20bn this will assist in reducing the VAT credit book.

Tax Type	Taxpayer	Credit Book at 11Nov'18
Income Tax	i) Companies	-16,267,274,457
	ii) Individuals	-11,796,073,880
VAT	(i & ii)	-36,092,087,307

The SARS Credit Book for the applicable tax types as at the end of the previous Financial year on 31 March 2018: This view is as at the 31 March 2018 and specifically on PIT there are no further influx of returns for this year (previous table) hence between now and then the book will reduce.

Tax Type	Taxpayer	Credit Book at 31Mar'18
Income Tax	i) Companies	-21,162,573,909
	ii) Individuals	-7,605,166,381
VAT	(i & ii)	-30,385,217,532

18 December 2018 - NW3372

Dlamini, Mr MM to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Why did the SA Revenue Service (SARS), purchase a certain company (name furnished) for R27 million when it was valued at R2 million, (b) how did SARS arrive at the figure of R27 million and (c) what services did the specified company provide to SARS; (2) following the purchase of the specified company, (a) what amount did SARS spend on information and technology (IT) services and (b) why were the IT services of the specified company needed in view of SARS’ purchase?

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Reply:

(a) SARS did not purchase Interfront SOC Ltd. The said company was formed by SARS with the required consent/approvals from the Minister and Treasury as required by the PFMA. SARS purchased the business and assets of Tatis International (Pty) Ltd (Tatis) which consisted mainly of the intellectual property (IP) in the customs solution software called TATIScms and employed Tatis’s skilled IT staff using Interfront as the legal entity as a wholly owned subsidiary of SARS. The total purchase consideration for the IP and assets of Tatis was not R27m but valued at R98m of which Accenture and Tatis Africa contributed R14m each for reseller rights. Accenture’s contribution was in the form of cash paid to Interfront (CLIDET at the time) and Tatis Africa a discount to the IP value. SARS is not aware of the allegation that the value of Tatis was R2m. Revenue collected by Interfront from Luxembourg for support and maintenance on the system for the period 2011-2018 amounted to R77m. A further R11m per annual is forecasted for the next 3 years.

(b) This question is answered under (a). Interfront firstly, modernised the Customs system to an electronic IT system which was implemented in SARS in 2013 and secondly has been building a new more modern electronic customs solution system to implement the new Customs Act.

(2) following the purchase of the specified company, (a) what amount did SARS spend on information and technology (IT) services and (b) why were the IT services of the specified company needed in view of SARS’ purchase?

a) SARS spent to date (31 Oct 2018-accruals included) a total amount of R784m, of which R669m is for software development, on all information technology and related services.

b) The Customs transaction volumes (Important and Exports) were doubling over the years while the staffing level remained static and minimal expenditure in information technology targeted at Customs, Customs was left in an untenable situation having to manage ever growing volumes with little capacity. Customs was utilising over 34 distinct systems to manage its business. Those systems were developed over a time as global trade was growing and evolving. The core system, CAPE, was commissioned in 1979 and was based on the first generation technology originally designed for batch data capture. The underlying conclusion was SARS Customs was not in a favourable position to deliver on its multifaceted mandate and effectively manage its many risks while providing the level of services required then in a competitive economy. After considerable analysis of the environment at the time, a number of options to resolve the technology issues and challenges were considered. The options investigated were as follows:

Option 1- Develop a new in-house custom-built solution utilising similar technology to that used for Tax Modernisation,

Option 2 – Create a SARS owned Development Company that would acquire the TATIS customs management solution.

Option 3 – Select and deploy a commercially-available customs software package such as Bull.

The key considerations, high-level time-lines and financial implications were discussed in the National Treasury submission and after applying the risk-adjusted public sector comparator; option 2 solution benefits considerably outweighed the risks. The submission was duly noted and signed by the Finance Minister at the time.

SARS continues to make use of the IT services of its subsidiary to modernise its Customs systems and achieve compliance with specific reference to the new Customs Act.

18 December 2018 - NW3374

Khawula, Ms MS to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether certain companies (names furnished) were contracted by the SA Revenue Service (SARS) at any time since 1 January 1999; if so, (a) on what date, (b) for how long was each specified company contracted and (c) what was the value of each contract; (2) (a) whether a tender was advertised for each contract, (b) on what basis was each specified company selected and (c) did the then Commissioner of SARS approve the contracts; (3) whether the contracts with the specified companies were extended; if not, why not; if so, (a) for what period, (b) what was the value of each contract, (c) for how long was each contract extended, (d) did the extensions comply with regulations and (e) was each extension of the contract approved by the then Commissioner of the SARS?

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Reply:

1 a) BB&D was contracted from 01 February 2007.

Oracle (Siebel which changed its name to Oracle) was contracted from December 2005.

b) BB&D have been contracted for 12 years from 01 February 2007 to 31 December 2019 through multiple deviations.

Oracle was contracted for 2 years from December 2005 to December 2007.

c) BB&D spend from 2007 to date is R1 275 550 118.99

Oracle spend from 2005 to 2007 is R 18 773 278.23

2 a) BBD was appointed through a deviation process and not a tender process

In consultation with long serving SARS employees and in the absence of the records to verify the assertions made (due to the time lapses), it was established that Siebel had a long standing contract with government from when SARS was still Inland Revenue Service as such their engagement was on the basis of systems already deployed through that government wide commercial arrangement.

b) The 2006 SARS records that have been reviewed by the current procurement leadership team reflects that the selection of the three entities (i.e. IBM, Accenture and BB&D) was based on the industry knowledge of the then Strategy, Modernisation and Technology senior staff. In circumstances relating to the replacement of the Oracle transaction BB&D was then chosen from the listed primarily because of price consideration.

In as far as Siebel/Oracle is concerned refer to 2a) above.

c) BBD - The then Commissioner of SARS approved the appointment of BBD through a deviation as per Treasury Regulation 16A6.4

In relation to Siebel/Oracle no record of approval could be established in line with 2a).

3 a) BB&D – original approval was from 01 February 2007 to 31 March 2012(5years)

1st extension from 01 April 2012 to 31 March 2016

2nd extension from 01 April 2016 to 31 December 2016

3rd extension from 01 January 2017 to 31 December 2019

Oracle was not extended beyond 31 December 2007 and they were replaced by BBD in the work they were doing for SARS

b) BBD - The contract value for BB&D from February 2007 to date is R1 275 550 118.99

Oracle - The spend from 2005 to 2007 is R 18 773 278.23

c) BBD – Refer to 3a above

Oracle - The Oracle contract was from December 2005 to December 2007 and was not extended further.

d) BBD – The extensions relating to the BB&D contract complied with the applicable regulations

Oracle - There were no extensions on the Oracle contract as it ran from December 2005 to December 2007 and was not extended further.

e) BB&D – the extensions were approved by the relevant Commissioner in terms of the applicable DOA at the time.

Oracle - There were no extensions on the Oracle contract as it ran from December 2005 to December 2007 and was not extended further.

18 December 2018 - NW3382

Mulaudzi, Adv TE to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether taxpayer and SA Revenue Service information were shared by certain SA Revenue Service officials (names furnished) with certain persons (names furnished) during the period 1 January 1999 up to 31 December 2009; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, who authorised it?

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Reply:

I have consulted with the Acting Commissioner of SARS who informs me that:

The sharing of such taxpayer information would have been a breach of the then provisions of the Income Tax Act (and other legislation administered by the Commissioner) relating to secrecy; and

Every SARS employee at the time was, and still is, required to take an oath or affirmation of secrecy in respect of all SARS and taxpayer information.

He has no evidence indicating that any such information was shared by the said SARS Officials with the said persons in that period.

18 December 2018 - NW3424

Chance, Mr R to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)What steps has the National Treasury taken to ensure that (a) government departments and (b) government entities pay their suppliers on time; (2) whether a certain person (details furnished) issued directives instructing (a) departments and (b) entities to pay suppliers timeously; if not, why not; if so, (i) by what date and (ii) to which departments and institutions were the directives issued; (3) whether accounting officers of government departments faced (a) criminal and/or (b) disciplinary actions against them related to the late payments of suppliers (i) in the (aa) 2016-17 and/or (bb) 2017-18 financial years and/or (ii) since 1 April 2018; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?

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Reply:

1. In terms of section 38(1)(a)(f) of the PFMA, the accounting officer of a department, trading entity of constitutional institution must settle all contractual obligations and pay all money owing including intergovernmental claims within the prescribed or agreed period.

Treasury Regulation 8.2.3 also requires accounting officers of departments to settle all payments due to creditors within 30 days from receipt of an invoice, unless determined otherwise in a contract or other agreement.

To this end, National Treasury issued SCM Instruction Note 5 of 2016/17 to address outstanding payments due to suppliers/creditors exceeding 30 days after submission of valid invoices for all PFMA complying institutions.

In terms of section 65(2)(e) of the MFMA, the accounting officer must take all reasonable steps to ensure that all money owing by the municipality be paid within 30 days of receiving the relevant invoice or statement unless prescribed otherwise for certain categories of expenditure. To effect this provision, National Treasury issued MFMA Circular 49 of 2009 applicable to all municipalities.

National Treasury continues to support Department of Monitoring, Planning and Evaluation (DPME) in monitoring payment of suppliers.

2. (a) Yes

(b) Yes

(b)(i) 26 March 2018

(b)(ii) departments, constitutional institutions, public entities, municipalities and municipal entities.

3. (a) We do not have this information.

(b) We do not have this information.

(i) (aa) We do not have this information.

(i) (bb) We do not have this information.

(ii) We do not have this information. The DPME is responsible for coordination of this information.

18 December 2018 - NW3483

Khawula, Ms MS to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether an intelligence unit was established at the SA Revenue Service (SARS) at any time during the period 1 January 1999 up to 31 December 2009; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) on what legal basis or provisions did the SARS rely for the establishment of this unit, (b) was the establishment of this unit approved by the then Commissioner of the SARS and (c) was intelligence equipment purchased for the intelligence unit; (2) were procurement laws and regulations followed in the purchasing of intelligence equipment for the intelligence unit; if so, (a) was the purchase of such equipment approved by the then Commissioner of the SARS and (b) what are the further relevant details?

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Reply:

1. Around 2007 SARS established a unit that provided support to tax and customs investigations of the illicit economy and organized crime. At various times the unit was called the Special Projects Unit, National Resource Group and the High Risk Investigation Unit.

The formation and functioning of the unit has been considered and commented on by the Sikhakhane Panel, KPMG and the SARS Advisory Board. On 28 September 2018 retired Judge Kroon testified before the Commission of Inquiry, headed by retired Judge Nugent, that the establishment of such a unit was not unlawful.

2. SARS is not aware of any equipment procured by the unit that did not comply with the procurement policy.

18 December 2018 - NW3484

Matiase, Mr NS to ask the Minister of Finance

On what legal basis or provisions did the decision of the former Minister of Finance rely in 2012 when he allegedly instructed senior executives of the SA Revenue Service to pursue the tax issues against the President of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Mr J S Malema?

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Reply:

SARS cannot disclose taxpayer specific information. In terms of the applicable legislation administered by SARS during the period of 2009 /2010 SARS could identify a taxpayer based on a specific risk identified or alternatively on a random basis. As per SARS’ compliance approach taxpayers would be encouraged to regularize their affairs. Continued non-compliance by taxpayers would then inform the most appropriate SARS Enforcement response.

Legally the Minister of Finance cannot instruct SARS to investigate a taxpayer. SARS is further not aware of such an instruction given to SARS as alluded to in the parliamentary question.

18 December 2018 - NW3580

Hlonyana, Ms NKF to ask the Minister of Finance

(a) Who introduced a certain company (details furnished) to the SA Revenue Service and (b) was the specified company issued a contract after a tender process?

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Reply:

a) The 2006 SARS records that have been reviewed by the current procurement leadership team reflects that the selection of the three entities (i.e. IBM, Accenture and BB&D) was based on the industry knowledge of the then Strategy, Modernisation and Technology senior staff.

b) A Master Services Contract was concluded.

18 December 2018 - NW3642

Mkhaliphi, Ms HO to ask the Minister of Finance

What (a) number of chief directors are in the employment of the National Treasury and (b) is the (i) name, (ii) gender, (iii) race, (iv) experience in years, (v) salary level of each chief director and (vi) in which division is each chief director employed?

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Reply:

a) 55 Chief Directors are in the employment of the National Treasury.

b) See below: (i) names furnished to the Member.

DIVISION (vi)	GENDER (ii)	RACE (iii)	EXPERIENCE IN YEARS (iv)	SALARY LEVEL (v)
			TENURE IN GOVERNMENT (YEARS)	TENURE IN CD POST (YEARS)	OTHER NON- GOVERNMENT (*FOR LESS THAN 5 YEARS’ CASES*)
Office of the Director-General	MALE	COLOURED	19	14		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	16	10		15
	FEMALE	WHITE	24	13		15
	MALE	AFRICAN	7	4	5	14
	MALE	AFRICAN	16	5		14
Asset & Liability Management	FEMALE	AFRICAN	0	0	6	14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	8	3		14
	MALE	WHITE	44	16		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	27	0		14
	MALE	INDIAN	17	0		14
	FEMALE	WHITE	11	9		14
Budget Office	FEMALE	WHITE	11	0		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	18	4		14
	MALE	INDIAN	14	9		14
	MALE	WHITE	12	3		14
	MALE	INDIAN	15	11		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	15	7		14
Public Finance	MALE	AFRICAN	12	3		14
	MALE	WHITE	10	4		14
	FEMALE	COLOURED	9	9		14
	FEMALE	COLOURED	16	16		14
	MALE	WHITE	26	8		14
	FEMALE	COLOURED	12	2		14
Economic Policy	MALE	WHITE	21	16		15
	MALE	COLOURED	5	1	7	14
	FEMALE	WHITE	8	4		14
Intergov Relations	FEMALE	WHITE	31	9		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	17	2		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	11	6		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	1	1	12	14
	MALE	WHITE	28	16		14
Tax & Financial Sector Policy	MALE	INDIAN	9	9		15
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	0	0	13	14
	MALE	WHITE	9	6		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	4	4	8	15
International & Regional Economic Policy (IREP)	FEMALE	WHITE	13	6		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	17	2		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	16	3		14
DIVISION (VI)	GENDER (ii)	RACE (iii)	EXPERIENCE IN YEARS (IV)	SALARY LEVEL (V)
			TENURE IN GOVERNMENT (YEARS)	TENURE IN CD POST (YEARS)	OTHER NON- GOVERNMENT (FOR LESS THAN 8 YRS CASES)
IREP	MALE	COLOURED	21	4		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	4	0	6	14
Chief Procurement Office	MALE	AFRICAN	16	16		14
	FEMALE	WHITE	15	5		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	14	2		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	18	5		14
Corporate Services	FEMALE	AFRICAN	1	1	11	14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	2	2	6	14
	MALE	AFRICAN	7	2	3	15
	FEMALE	WHITE	2	2	10	14
Office of the Accountant General	MALE	INDIAN	23	17		14
	FEMALE	WHITE	7	7		14
	MALE	INDIAN	14	14		14
	FEMALE	WHITE	15	11		15
	MALE	INDIAN	35	9		14
	FEMALE	AFRICAN	19	15		14
	MALE	AFRICAN	16	9		15

18 December 2018 - NW3651

Mashabela, Ms N to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether, with reference to the reply of the Minister of State Security to question 3378 on 13 November 2018, the so-called spy tapes were produced by the SA Revenue Service’s High-Risk Investigation Unit and handed to Mr Michael Hulley for the defence of the former President, Mr J G Zuma; if not, who produced the tapes; if so, who handed the tapes to Mr Hulley?

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Reply:

The Acting Commissioner has no knowledge of the origin of the so-called “spy tapes” other than what has been reported on in certain media articles such as an article of April 2009 in which it was reported that the Inspector General of Intelligence had confirmed an investigation had been opened.

Herewith is link to the M&G Article:

https://mg.co.za/article/2009-04-09-the-spy-who-saved-zuma

News

The spy who saved Zuma

Pearlie Joubert, Adriaan Basson09 Apr 2009 07:10

18 December 2018 - NW3734

Rawula, Mr T to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) was awarded any contracts that a certain person (name furnished) was involved in as a government official; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) on what date was the tender awarded, (b) what is the total number of bidders who submitted bids, (c) what was the bidding price of each bidder and (d) what was the bidding price of the PARI; (2) whether the specified person declared her relationship with the PARI when each contract was awarded; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

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Reply:

1. PARI was awarded a contract to complete an Expenditure and Performance review of the duplication of language services in Pan South Africa Language Board (PanSALB), Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) and The Language Services in the Department of Arts and Culture.

a) The tender was awarded on 7 October 2013 by a panel of five officials, of which a certain person (name furnished) was part.

b) The tender was a composite tender across a number of sectoral topics and 47 bids were received. For the topic of language services duplication, PARI was the only bidder.

c) PARI was the only bidder and their bid price was R548 700.

d) PARI’s bid price was R548 700.

2. A certain person (name furnished) did not have a relationship with PARI at the time of the awarding of the contract. Three years after this body of consulting work was completed, she became a Research Fellow at PARI in May 2017. Apart from the Expenditure and Performance Review on language services duplication, she has had no involvement in any other work between PARI and GTAC.

18 December 2018 - NW2603

Mente, Ms NV to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the reply to question 168 on 24 May 2018, and in light of the fact that the central supplier database captures each company registration number of all suppliers, the directors and their identity numbers, what are the details of the directors of each consultant company that was hired from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2016?

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Reply:

Information regarding the companies and their directors is attached. Given the constitutional right to privacy, the identity numbers of the directors are not furnished.

Company name	Directors of company

21st Century Pay Solutions Group	Christopher Francis Blair, Mark Herber Raymond Bussin, Nasreen Banu Dawood, Dumisani Khanyile, Mbulelo Joel Mayikana, Ian Patrick Mcgorian, Morag Phillips, Craig Andrew Raath, Bryden Jason Morton, Ntombizone Feni
360 Currency	Annelies Nel
Akhile Management and Consulting (Pty) Ltd	Aneel Kumar Radhakrishna, Fongumusa Nhlanhleni Brian Hadebe, Aditi Radhakrishna
Apex Advisory Services	Natasha Reema Sing-Ally
Bain And Company South Africa	Stuart Kevin Min, Winston Keith Wilton
Belay Managed Services Pty Ltd	Johannes Groeneveld, John Ramatsui
Bigen Africa Services Pty Ltd	Anton Boshoff, Carolus Johannes Venter, Jacob Henry de Villiers Botha, Snowy Joyce Khoza, Zandile Nangamso Mankai, Deon Fabel, Otto Scharfetter, Salome Sengani, Ian Joseph Harford Bettesworth, Leon Boshoff, William Hohn Bosman, Jacques Leslie Bredenkamp, Pieter Abraham Cilliers, Anesta Henriette de Klerk, Pieter Willem du Plessis, Louis Gerhardus Gertenbach, Kesvin Govender, Daniel Jacobus Grabe, Johann Hooper, Johannes Jurie Human, Alex du Plessis Le Grange, Jacob Genis Louw, Henrik Fredrik Maree, Robert Albert Moffat, Tafadzwa Mukwena, Rineshree Naicker, Michael Jacobus Nel, Phinda Joseph Ngozo, Johan Henri Pieters, Kevindran Pillay, Dane Robin Poggenpeol, Ian Timothy Pollard, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Philippus Jacobus Johannes Reyneke, Hendrik Conrnelius Rossouw, Daniel Smit, Dieter Owen Storbeck, Jacobus Nicolaas Johannes Swart, Gilliam Swiegers, Johannes Steyn van Blerk, Jan Louis van den Berg, Hayley Ann van der Merwe, Jeremia Jesaja van der Walt, Sulett Goncalves van Graan,Terence Clint van Rensburg Francois Jacobus Viljoen, Carel Rudolph West, Andries Philippus Olivier, Hendrik Jakobus Bester, Carina Cox, Leon Rens Els, Victor Letsoejane Litlhakanyane, Henri Siebert, Rhulani Daphney Matshidze, Bongani Blessing Mabizela, Kelepile Anthony Dintwe, Ruan Werner Minnaar
Bitz Technologies (Trading as Abacus Advisory)	Mohamed Amin Cassim
Bowman Gilfillan Inc	Partick Anthony Hirsh, Adam Gordon Anderson, David Peter Anderson, Anton Mark Barnes-Webb, Claire Louise Reidy, Tammy Lynn Beira, Roger Edgar Westley Burman, Robin Moncrieff Carr, Patrick Miles Carter, Lloyd Arthur Chater, Robert Anton Cohen, Craig Neil Cunningham, Graham Hugh Damant, Mzuwandile Ezra Clavis, Heather Dean Duffey, Lance Fleiser, Karen Anne Fulton, David John Geral, Timothy James Gordon Grant, Ashleigh Hale, Paul Hart-Davies, Ineke Louise Brink, Jeremy David Prain, Cornelia Maria Bouwer, Jeremia Ramasela Kaapu, Alan James Keep, Talita Laubscher, Robert Andrew Legh, Derek Andrew Lötter, Penuell Mpapa Maduna, Anne Mc Kinnell. James Michael Mc Kinnell, Gordon Ian Rushton, Beatrix Gertruida Magdalena Strydom, Christopher Frances Neale Todd, Claire Elizabeth Tucker, Daryn Stuart, Peter Eugene Whelan, Shelley Gaye Wilson, Tamara Carmela Oates, Charles Robert Douglas, Adam Simon Harris, Craig Patrick Kennedy, Randall John van Voore, Rosalind Ann Davey, Barry John Garven, Henry Bonginkosi Ngcobo, David Drummond Yuill, Livia Smith, Casper Louis van Heerden, Virusha Nannoolal, Fahdia Bhayat, Matthew Adkisson Purchase, Deon de Klerk, Johannes George Kruger, Rudolph Johannes Labuschagne, Richard Ze'ev Shein, Iona Duduzile Leshaba, Helen Jane Schoeman, Mandisi Selwin Rusa, Johathan Westley Sahli, Donna Gewer, Lusanda Vuyelwa Raphulu, Lucinda Verster, Jan Petrus Kruger, Dirk Cornelius Wessels, Nendel Yriel Sass, Lischa Herta Mary Gerstle, Craig Gerald Schäfer, Maria Anna Julie Osborne, Dana Edith Mclean, Michael George Vermaak, Peruscha Pillay, Charles Esward Cameron Smith, Trudie Hayley Mandy, Andrew John Pike, Maryanne Angumuthoo, Tholinhlanhla monde Gcabashe, Christopher Bernard Green, Kirsten Michelle Kern, Joanne Barbara Ripley-Evans, Mark Robert van Velden, James William Lynton Westgate, John Meredith Bellew, Warren Hamer, Joshua Ricky Janks, Mvisiswano Clement Mkiva, Happy Wandisile Mandlana, Lyndal Joan Anderson, Ian D'aguilar Kirkman, Tumisang Lesego Mongae, Charles Zanokuthula Nduli, Yashveer Ram, Elizabeth Cecilia Basson, Patricia Williams, Jane Andropoulos, Shamilah Grimwood, Khomotso Standley Makapane, Judd Lurie, Luway Mongie, Timothy Partick Mcdougall, Samir Ellary, Phetole Ivan Modika, Samantha Saffy, Spencer Patrick Naicker, Andrew van Niekerk, Ulrike Erika Brigette Ursula Naumann, Kelly Susan Wright, Xolani Nyali, Heidi Taylor, Misty Keep, Lital Avivi, Melissa Strydom, Amanda Arumugam Shakti Ann Wood.
Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd	Deon Jeftha Fredericks, Penuell Cornwell Sibusiso Luthuli, Regilwe Sakgeya Nkabinde, Sipho Nkosinathi Maseko, Sibusiso Sibisi, Faith Nondumiso Khanyile, Thabo Dloti, Michael Ettling, Jonas Poriki Bogoshi
Casucceed Training Pty Ltd	Thabiso Raymond Madiba, Monique Keevy
CIPS SA	Duncan Philip Brock, Jannine Rosanne Griffiths, Amanda Susan O'brien, Hemant Harrielall
Clarity Editorial Cc	Gregory Jon Rosenberg, Martha Palesa Morudu
Comsel Eighteen	Kanaga Vittee, Cheryl Jane Kujenga
Cool Ideas (Pty)Ltd	Ashen Rajah, John William King, Ebrahim Aboobaker Laher
Creative Consulting And Development Works Cc	Lindy Jane Briginshaw
Deloitte and Touche	Nazeer Ahmed Essop, Lerato Bacela, Mmaboshadi Chauke, Pearl Zama Dlamini, Egnes Macheve, Pulane Delia Ndlovu, Rachel Nkgodi, Lwazikazi Nomavo Nopece, Ntombenhle Bridget Radebe, Vuyelwa Sangoni, Faith Tumelo Seaketso, Gladys Sebatha, Lerato Millicent Sithole, Lwazi Loyiso Bam, Vonani Justice Chauke, Siviwe Zolisile Arthur Dongwana, Phaphmani Alex Thabani Gwala, Sandile Aubrey Zolani Gwala, Twalizidanga Mlondolozi Mgcinisihlalo Jordan, Charles Kweku Larbi-Odam, Mthokozisi Raymond Luthuli, Thabang Elvis Magare, Mandisi Mantyi, Wiseman Victor Musawenkosi Manyathi, Andrew Walter Mashifane, Sonwabo Mateyisi, Lector Arthur Matsho, Siwa Langton Mautsa, Slingsby Wonga Mda, Patrick Ndlovu, Kgomotso Pule Ramoitshudi Ngakane, Bongani Nkasana, Lungelo Christopher Nomvalo, Sisa Oswald Ntlango, Bongisipho Nyembe, Nkululeko Praise-God Oliphant, Emmanuel Ramasodi, Gregory Molefe Rammego, Lufuno Ravhuhali, Gabaiphiwe Ebenezer Daniel Tabane, Moroa Lehlohonolo Eric Tshabalala, Puledi George Tshesane, Joseph Zitha, Anthea Karen Scholtz, Mogamat Zahid Bardien, Randall Cupido, Justin Diedericks, Daniel Mark Flanagan, Reyaaz Jacobs, Peter Christian Present, Julian Sam, Muhammad Rushdi Solomons, Fatima Abba, Fathima Bibi Ally, Nerashni Dharamlall, Nazrien Banu Kader, Kasurthrie Justine Mazzocco, Shazia Moola, Carmeni Bester, Sudasha Naidoo, Nita Ranchod, Sharoda Rapeti, Ruwayda Redfearn, Li,esjmee Bigwandeen, Thrisha Soni, Kavita Vanmali, Arun Mappilaparambil Babu, Pramesh Bhana, Yusaf Bhula, Mohamed Saleem Cassim, Lallchand Dharamlall, Abubakr Essack, Mohammed Ferhet Gause, Praveck Geeanpersadh, Shaunapragasen Govender, Wesley Nallan Govender, Trushar Kalan, Shahil Manilal Kanjee, Haroon Ahmed Loonat, Thegarajan Marriday, Hoosain Mayet, Gitesh Baloobhai Mistry, Reshagan Angamuthoo Moodley, Dinesh Munu, Magendren Naidoo, Prashanth Naidoo, Sumendra Naidoo, Muhammad Taahir Osman, Riaz Anver Ebrahim Osman, Karthigasen Pillay, Thiruvasan Paranthaman Pillay, Sudheer Ishwarlal Rajcoomar, Kamal Singh Ramsingh, Mohammed Yacoob Shaikh, Navin Sing, Shamal Sivasanker, Chetan Chhagan Vaghela, Ismail Vawda, Bernadette Marie Abbott, Anneke Andrews, Chetan Chhagan Vaghela, Penelope Binnie, Anne Wilhelmina Casey, Jean Adrianne Cooper, Hildegarde Cronje, Christina Petronella Dippenaar, Leana du Plessis, Liezl du Plessis, Cathryn Robyn Emslie, Jennifer Lynn Erskine, Kerry-Anne Forster, Cathy Ann Gibson, Jolandi Grace, Igna Gray, Leonie Henderson, Karin Lynn Hodson, Gillian Elizabeth Hofmeyer, Candice Holland, Camilla Howard-Browne, Claire Frances Hoy, Zuleka Jasper, Diana Fernandes Jorge, Glen Suzanne Krynauw, Anne-Marie Liebenberg, Helena Sevasti Martins, Caarke Nel, Shelly Joy Nelson, Kim Peddie, Corinne Leigh Ringwood, Stephanie Louise Ronander, Annemarie Schroeder, Hermine Smit, Wendy Ann Smith, Catherine Elizabeth Stretton, Ashleigh Pauline Theophanides, Michele Nicola Townsend, Meredith van den Barselaar, Claudette van der Merwe, Suzanne van der Merwe, Ronel van Graan, Louise Vosloo, Lesley Karin Wallace, Jaqueline Wiezbowshi, Angelique Worms, Valter Domingos Adao, Coenrad Johannes Alberts, Marius Nicholas Alberts, Marc James Anley, Reinhard Hanns Arndt, Marcus Emmanuel Bardopoulos, Luke Geoffrey Vermaak Barlow, Christoper Lawrence Beneke, Graeme Micheal Berry, Johannes Marthinus Bierman, Kevin William Black, Antonie Johannes Jurgens Botes, Xavier Botha, Guy Campbell Brazier, Allan William Brown, Trevor Johathan Brown, Matthys Johannes Bruwer, Francois Alewyn Burger, Roy Charlton Campbell, Sebastian Benedikt Field Carter, Mark Antony Casey, Dean Aubrey Chivers, Newton Conradie Cockcroft, Michael John Comber, Lester Peter Cotten, Daniel Francois Crowther, Martyd John Davies, Graham David Dawes, Jurie Hendrik Wessels de Kock, Lino Ascensao de Ponte, Leonard Alexander de Rooij, Andre Juan Dennis, Trevor Austin Derwin, Murray Glenn Dicks, Ryan Lee Dogon, Michael Wilfred Du Toit, Akiva Ehrlich, Jacobus Adriaan Eksteen, Johannes Erasmus, Mark Alexander Freer, Bester Ebersohn Greyling, Mark Johathan Harrison, Mark Hugh Holme, Neville Patrick Hounsom, Michael John Jarvis, Mark Gerard Joseph, Beyers Gideon Joubert, William Edward Joubert, Andrew Robertson Kilpatrick, Wiebe Klaassen, Patrick Michael Kleb, Dirk Albertus Kotze, Geoffrey Brian Kroon.



Desto Pty Ltd	Hendrika Johanna Meyer, Marthinus Jacobus Meyer
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs	Mziwozuko Mgudlwa, Chevan Daniels, Ilse du Plessis, Alexandre Filipe Morgado Ferreira, Senzo lloyd Mbatha, Nicola Hazel Nolan, Leonard Joseph Bilchitz, Theo Buchler, Julia Suzana Andrade Ferraz-Cardoso, James Thomas Peter Haydock, Johannes Daneel Loubser, Elizabeth Louw, Brian George Patterson, Gaelyn Clare Scott, Andre Willem Symington, Clinton van Loggerenberg, Ross John Alcock, Justin Balkin, Peter John Dachs, Mohamed Sajid Darsot, Paul Vivian Descroizilles, Hanneke Farrand, Joao Bernardino Andrade Ferraz, Robert Mendel Gad, Mark John Garden, Michael Warren Gradidge, Stuart William Harrison, Susan Beth Hayes, Lawrence Helman, Adriaan Cornelis Hoeben, Doron Joffe, Sanjay Kassen, Michael Mervyn, Leonard Charles Katz, Jocelyn Katz, Juliette Marion de Hutton, Eric Smith, Sean Craig Lederman, Stephen Barry Levetan, Natalia Dos Santos Lopes, Khuzamula Witness Makhubele, George Frederik Malan, Kevin Markman, Yonit Ariella Mendelsohn, Matthew George Morrison, Gary James Oertel, Jacobus Petrus Pretorius, Philippa Reyburn, Roger Brian Rudolph, Nicolette Smit, Hester Madgalena Snyckers, Robyn Tanya Stein, Joson Michael Valkin, Vanessa Louise van Coppenhagen, George Morrison van Niekerk, Jan Daniel Viviers, Stephen Robert von Schirnding, Hermann Wessels, Cecil Leon Wulfsohn, John Michael Zieff, Edwin Ellis, Motleu Douglas Molepo, Julius Theodore Oosthuizen, Bradley jason Serebro, Deborah Helen Carmichael, Armando de Sousa Aguiar, Philip Franz Lothar Geromont, Modisaotsile William Matlou, Anthony John Louis Norton, Irvin Bradley Wayne Lawrence, Catherine Vivien Pitman, Marthinus Theunis Steyn, Kaanit Abarder, Lloyd Christie, Zahida Ebrahim, Shafeeka Hartley, Helyn Margaret Herholdt, Deon Mark Lambert, Antony Lee, Michael Sinclair Tucker, Rowan Ian Forster, Derek Andrew Wanblad, Andrew Francis Bembridge, Loren Tibshraeny, Len Vorster, Sasha Singh, Suemeya Essack Mahomed Hanif, Itayi Daniel Gwaunza, Hendrik Belsazar Senekal, Vusimuzi Magubane, Jason Rusch, Derushka Chetty, Dion Harry Masher, Darren Band, Gordon William Reid, Ian Keith Hayes, Lydia Shadrach-Razzino, Paul Alan Winer, Willem Petrus le Roux, Kirsty Leigh Simpson, Pieter Gabriel Hendrik Colyn, Celeste Lynne Coles, Ridwaan Boda, Isaac Phayane Fenyane, Pareen Rogers, Richardt van Rensburg, Ruan Goodman, Willem Schalk Burger van der Colff, Elsie Audrey Johnson, Andries Johannes Myburgh, Timothy Mark Desmond, Lorica Elferink, Jessica Lee Blumenthal, Leigh Sedice, Fritz Dieter Schulz, Warren Ross Hendricks, Racheal Nantale Sikwane, Zeyn Bhyat, Tiaan Francois de Wit, Carlyn Brittany Frittelli, Lee-Ann Fiona Hopley, Adam Lombard, Lisa May Melis, Kumeshnie Naidoo, Lauren Jill Peterson, Balindile Theodorah Samkelisiwe, Waldo Steyn, Brian Peter Lee Jennings, Isaivan Naidoo, Lebusa Meso, Nkosingiphile Bhekumuzi Knoza, Deon Beachen, Ntlhane Josiah Lehlogonolo, Manisha Bugwandeen, Carmen Irene Gers, Kristel van Rensburg, Nzame-Bulungisa Ntembeko Qokweni, Nontsikelelo Adonisi-Kgame, Joseph Mothibi, Wilmari Strachan, Wade Jermaine Graaff, Sanushka Chetty, Tyla Foster, Heinrich Meiring, Michelle Smit, Tracey-Jane van Wyk, Letitia Field, Era Cecilia Gunning, Gerhardt Ehlers, Venetia Melissa Govender, Raashmi Myuri Govender, Monique Maree, Vusumuzi Sakhile Mathebula, Wandile Veronica Ndabambi, Megan Rossouw, Bradley Browne, Kelle Elizabeth Gagne, Melanie le Roux
Eighty Twenty Consulting (Pty)Ltd	Andrew Kerr Fulton, Steven Edward Burnstone, William Kirsh, Isaac Kirsh, Peter Ressell

EOH Abantu	John William King, Zunaid Mayet
ESOH Consulting Cc	Vinolia Rikhotso, Joseph Esoh Bezeng
Exactitude Consulting (Pty) Ltd	Clinton van Winkel, Penelope Moerane, Hermanus Adriaan Lombard
Exponant (Pty) Ltd	Leon Truter, Sibusiso Henry Maphatiane, Raynard van Nieuwenhuizen, Thys Tjaart Fourie, Philippus Rudolph de Wet, Sheilla Mlalazi, Selvan Naidoo, Nomsa Olivia Nteleko, Valerie Megasperee Naidoo, Ashley Kenneth Pillay,



Fanyana Ntuli Trading Cc	Leanett Fanyana Ntuli
Finmark Trust	Pakeereesamy Prega Ramsany, Cassim Coovadia, Ethel Gothatamodimo Matenge-Sebesho, Ishmael Mkhabela, Esau Nebwe
Genesis Analytics	Stephanus van Niekerk Malherbe, Richard Peter Tom Ketley, James William Hodge
GJ Cronje Consulting & Management	Gysbert Johannes Cronje, Karin Louise Cronje
Gobodo Forensic And Investigative Accounting Pty Ltd	Mareasele John Peter Mokae, Grant Buchler, Alberto Torres
H&P IT Empowerment (Pty)Ltd	Harold Mathabethe, Lodewikus Andries van der Merwe
HR Computek	Harry Tremorio Chakhala
ICD Consultancy	Thabang Simon Motshopi, Clemence Chiduwa
ID1 Consulting Projects	James Sydney de Jager
Infinitum Software Solutions Pty Ltd	Jan Hendrik Kruger, Hendrik Marthinus Daniel Underhay, Emmett Anderssen du Toit

Infobuild	Twanette Ann Jurd, Johan Nicolaas Jurd, Lauriane Stamer, Johannes Wilhelmus Louw de Preez, Jethro Lloyd Funck, Clayton Erick Peacock, Mashilo Refilwe Motia, Dina Nontuthumbo Saleni
Institute for Performance Management	Gerfina Johanna Rossouw Janse van Rensburg, Hector Makhubele
Jumpco (Pty) Ltd	Edgar Noel Maistry, Graham Bruce Bingham, John Stephen Mahony
Kanagamurthi Reddy	Kanagamurthi Reddy
Koor Dindar Mothei Gauteng (Pty) Ltd	Riaz Koor, Yusuf Mahomed Iqbal Dindar, Aslam Dukander, Ismail Agjee, Bonakelo Kenneth Mothei, Zenobia Dasoo, Allimia Ismail Koor, Moonira Bagum Koor, Tariq koor, Numan Koor, Luqman Koor, Aadilla Dindar, Adnaan Dindar, Tasneem Dindar, Imaan Dindar
KPMG Services (Pty) Ltd	Alan Dax Barr, Alison Elizabeth Margaret Beck, Edward Albert Belstead, Anthony Barry Berrange, Naresh Nresee Bhoola, John ronald Bowen, Yusuf Mahomed Abed, Carol Batchelor, Maria Magdalena De Wet, Marcelle Fouche, Kobus Henning, Bronvin Roy Heuvel, Abraham Venter Labuschagne, Jacob Le Roux, Maylee Deidre Lubbe, Antoinette Malherbe, Henning Johannes Opperman, Stefanus Christiaan Smith, Aspasia Anastasia Vaidanis, Roy Arthur Waligora, Heather Jean Berrange, Ahmed Bulbulia, Pierre Johannes Conradie, Mark Anthony Craddock, Paul Mark Daly, Jawaharlal Datadin, Frederik Anton De Bruyn, Sergio Luis Santos De Castro, Johannes Lodewikus De La Rey, Gavin Leslie De Lange, Gerhardus Dixon, Henry Visser Du Plessis, Devon Clive Duffield, Michael George Evans, Alan Brett Field, Dawid Jacobus Fouche, Pierre Fourie, Riana Fourie, Daniel Jacobus Fourie, Louis Pierre Fourie, Irma Fourie, Dean Friedman, Gavin Cecil Gainsford, Zaharati Roula Hadjipaschalis, Mahommed Hassan, Johan Heydenrych, Glenn HO, Marl Cecil Anthony Hoffman, Diana Jean Saunders, Kerry Claire Jenkins, Narvindchand Lala Keshav, Riaan Dalton Kok, Gabriel Stephanus Kolbe, Paresh Amratlal Hira Lalla, Mpheduseni Edson Magondo, Heinrich Mans, John Alistair Martin, Nichola John Matthews, John Scott MC Intosh, Tracy Ann Middlemiss, Andreas Bartholomeus Meyburgh, Walter Robert Carrington Palk, Gary Frederick Parker, Gary Mark Pickering, Ockert pornelius Potgieter, David Stratfold Read, Gordon francis Richardson, Steven Grant Robinson, Tersia Rossouw, John Michael Saker, Richard John David Samson, Johannes Christoffel Scheepers, De Buys Scott, Jan Scheltema (Johan) Smith, Ashley Magnus Smith, Nicolas Harry Southon, Garry Graham Stanier, Ron Eugene Stuart, Dwight Domenque Thompson, Gary Thompson, Shaun Van Den Boogaard, Alwyn willem Van Der Lith, Jeremy Richard Van Niekerk, Cornelis Van Niekerk, Cornelius Jacobus Venter, Jan Vliegenthart, Friedrich Hans Carl Freiherr Von Eckardstein, Dean Ivan Wallace, Warren Watkins, Mandy lynn Watson, Vanessa tracy Mans, Coenraad Hendrik Basson, Tanya Engels, Carolyn Boudina Chambers, Makgotso Letsitsi, Ugendran Moodley, Boitumelo Motumiseng Ngutshane, Jaques Johannes Pienaar, Heidi Volschenk, Kashmira Bhana, Martin Chvostek, Hanlie Dennis, Ivan Minnaar Engeles, Clasina Sophia Erasmus, Joelene Nicolette Perce, Imraan Jeewa, Eugene Quentin Pfister, Gary Martin Simms, Granville Craig Cole Smith, Tara-Lynn Smith, Oswold Theodore Wentworth, Abraham johannes Joubert Botha, Terence Grant Cheadle, Farouk Ebrahim, Nosisa Fubu, Alida louise Jordaan, Neil Gregory Morris, Marlene Pappas, Thinlemony Pather, Willem Sterrenberg Pretorius, Maureen senekal, Lance Maurice September, Mphikma Alfred Sithole, frans Jacobus Trigaardt, Antonio Miguel Gomes De Almeida Vicente, Tanja Ferreira, Modise Ishmael Maseng, Yasmeen Suliman, Zola Aubrey Beseti, Mark George Gardner Danckwerts, Zohra De Villiers, Nhlamulo Marcia Dlomu, Shamit Givind, Thomas Carel Gouws, Daniel Timothy Hooijer, Mohammed Younus Jada, Cuma Limekaya, Thato Matome Malakalaka, Farzanah Mall, Wayne Gerald Elton Pretorius, Neo Frangeni Shabalala, Delarey Kanfer, Riegert Gerhardus Stoltz, Premilla Devi Naidoo, Michael Grant Fortmann, Madelein Van Zyl, Kgomotso Vernon Monnakgotla, Malcolm Robert Jewell, Sipho Ndaba, Olivia Maria Makhetha, Heather Tracy De Jongh, Justin Michael Chait, Omera hylda Naiker, Werner Roetz, Kevin Shawn Hoff, Mahomed Riaz Muradmia, Heather Carswell, Candice Lee-Andra Padayachee, Heidi Lyn Streicher, Keshava Manosivan Naidu, Zaheer Wadee, Neelan Jina, Andrew Joseph Mckeaveney, Yacoob Jaffar, Vian Strydom, Melissa Joyce Duffy, Kamban Vythilingum, Giuseppina Aragona, Carel Albert Tecumseh Smit, Anthony Hugh Graham Wright, Pierre Johan Jacobs, Carmen Botha, Shirley Ivason-Wagener, Pieter Roy Naude, Bavhana Govender, Matsobane Frans Tleana, Safeera Mahomed Khan, Tamara Carol Isaacs, Lumkile Wiseman Nkhuhlu, Anna Francina Ramalho, Melanie Miller, Erina cooper, Mapoteng Ferdinand Mashaba, Martin John Vipond, Maria Van Der Valk, Jared Lyndon Mitri, Shandhir Anand Lachman, Nishen Bikhani, Derek John Vice, Shaaheen Tar-Mahomed, Breanda Koliwe Pumeza Jajula,

Limco Qs Arbitration And Project Management	Elre Van Der Walt
Manto Management (Pty) Ltd	John Gary Moonsammy

Mark Manley Associates	Mark Stevens Manley
Mckinsey Incorporated	Veronica Nomfanelo Magwentshu, Prakash Parbhoo, Georges Jean Pierre Desvaux, Tebogo Mapula Skwambane,
MJ Acres Computer Consultants	Not registered on the Central Supplier Database.
MJ Mafunisa Consulting Pty Ltd	John Mutuwafhetu Mafunisa
Mogwariepa Consulting Cc	Peter John Klynhans
Mubesko Africa (Pty) Ltd	Iaan gregory Morris, Martina De Kock, Nico johan De Cock, Russell Bryan Dick, Dylan Lester Strydom,
Nexus Forensic Services Pty Ltd	Werner bouwer, Francois Johannes Labuschagne, Mary-Anne Lizette Whittles
Ngubane and Company (Johannesburg) Inc	Zepi Thomas Brian Nkomo, Ephraem Sibanda, Nqabisa Ravele, Shaheen Mohamed Jogee, Marble Marvel Ndlovu, Edwin Tinashe Chapanduka, Nomathamsanqa Langelihle Ashom,
Nkonki Incorporated	Mitesh Mohanlal Patel, Thuto Margaret Masasa, Mzintsha Vizia Nkonki, Brian Mungofa, Nyarai Gamuchirai Margaret Muzarewetu, Kiran Bhika, Steven Ronald Firer, Sangeeta Ishwarlal Kallen, Yongama Madolo, Thetele Emmarancia Mashilwane, Ahmed mohammed Pandor
Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc	Carina Van Vuuren, Shawn barnett, Zaida Sadrudine Kathrada, Murray Hudson Alexander, Gerrit Gauche Bouwer, Patrick Alan Bracher, Anthony John Chappel, Kevin Richard Cron, Michael Otto Dale, Brian Michael Denny, Alastair George Spencer Dixon, Jeffrey Maurice Kron, andrew Peter Moncrieff Robinson, Andrew Kenneth Strachan, Craig Woolley, Hugh Ian Bisset, Rohan Barry Isaacs, Malcom Charles Hartwell, Ross donald Ernest Lomax, Harmina Jeanette Janse Van Rensburg, Maria Mijatovic, Loris Rech, Marelise Van Der Westhuizen, Sibusiso William Mavela Gule, Aslam Abdul Samad Moosajee, Andre Pieter Vos, Liesel Kok, David Simon Kapelus, Jacqueline Ellen Midlane, Mohamed Chavoos, Elizabeth Johanna MC Caul, Karen Ainslie, Brent Etienne Botha, Pieter Hugo Niehaus, Likonelo Magagula, Georg Carl Kahle, Rosalind Elizabeth Lake, Sandra Sithole, Vanashree David, Stephen Leonard Chemaly, Christiana Costas, Sandile Senzo Khoza, Ismail Saied Hanif Laher, Christina Johanna Pretorius, Jason Glen Van Dijk, Douglas Spence Tatham, Lize Nadine Louw, Daniel Laurence MC Connell, Lizel Oberholzer, Deniro ravikumaran Pillay, Gary MacDonald Rademeyer, Verushka Reddy, Desiree Reddy, Caroline Katarina Theodosiou, Liesl Erica Williams, Johathan Jones, Stephen James Kenndy Good, Lee Anthony Astfalck, Wilhelmina Petronella Le Roux, Gregory Antony Nott, Heather Leigh Manson, Mark Philip Griffiths, Thato Reuben Seroto, Anton Pierre Schelhase, Lauren Fine, Andrea Patricia Keller, Jason John Whyte, Riccardo Peter Petersen, Raynold Tlhavani, Peter Edgcumbe Lamb, Daniel Robert Breier, Malibuye Dumani Cossie, Nicki-Ann Van't Riet, Richard Andrew De La Harpe, Isla Swart, Michael Bruce Mclaren
Oxford Policy Management Limited	Simon Paul Crisp Hunt, Kevin Carr
PGE Brook	Not registered on the Central Supplier Database.
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Revworth Management Consultants Cc	David Reevell
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18 December 2018 - NW2753

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether any forensic investigations were conducted into the operations of the Financial and Fiscal Commission in the period 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2018; if so, what are the details of (a) the person(s) who conducted each forensic investigation, (b) the costs of conducting each forensic investigation, (c) each forensic investigation, (d) the reports produced for each forensic investigation, (e) the recommendations made in each report, (f) all action taken to implement the recommendations and (g) all disciplinary action taken against any person employed by the commission?

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Link

Reply:

Yes, one forensic investigation was conducted into the operations of the Financial and Fiscal Commission in the period 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2018.

a) The forensic investigation was conducted by the Special Audit Services of the National Treasury together with a private firm called Bowman Gilfillan.

b) The total forensic investigation fees paid by the National Treasury to Bowman Gilfillan amounted to R1,3 Million.

c) See b) above

d) One report on the Investigation into the allegation of fraud, corruption, fruitless and wasteful expenditure and maladministration at the Financial and Fiscal Commission was produced.

e) Recommendations contained in the report covered the following matters:

Disciplinary action to be taken against employees
Matters to be referred to law enforcement agencies to initiate criminal investigation
Recovery of monies from the implicated employees.

f) (i) Disciplinary action has begun against affected employees. Two of the employees have resigned

(ii) Criminal matters were referred to the South African Police Services on 26 July 2017 by the National Treasury.

g) Recovery of monies process will be initiated once the disciplinary actions have been finalized

h) See( f) (i) above

18 December 2018 - NW2825

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether the (a) foreign borrowing limits, (b) further foreign borrowing limits, (c) domestic borrowing limits and (d) further domestic borrowing limits were granted to any public entity (i) in the 2017-18 financial year and (ii) since 1 April 2018; if not, in each specified case, why not; if so, in each specified case, (aa) what is the name of the public entity, (bb) what was the value of the (aaa) foreign and/or domestic borrowing limit and (bbb) extension of the foreign and/or domestic borrowing limit and (cc) what is the current total foreign and/or domestic borrowing limit?

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Link

Reply:

(a), (b), (c) and (d)

In the 2017/18 financial year, foreign borrowing limits were granted to the Central Energy Fund (CEF), the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Denel and Transnet.

CEF’s foreign borrowing limit was for R3 billion and this is set to expire in the 2021/22 financial year. The foreign borrowing limit was for the holding company and its subsidiaries for working capital purposes given the high working capital requirements of the industry.

DBSA’s foreign borrowing limit was for the entity to access more funds from foreign lenders to extend loans and advances in SA and the SADC region to execute its mandate of facilitating and supporting infrastructure development in Southern Africa. The amounts approved for the DBSA was R19.7 billion for the 2017/18 financial year, R22.6 billion for the 2018/19 financial year and R26 billion for the 2019/20 financial year.

Denel’s foreign borrowing limit was approved at R535.3 million for the 2017/18 financial year, with the amount reducing by R100 million every year. The limit is valid for 3 years from the 2017/18 financial year. The approval for a foreign borrowing limit for Denel was to allow the company’s subsidiary (Denel Aerostructures) to continue executing a major contract given the high working capital requirements of the project.

Transnet’s foreign borrowing limit was approved for 1 year up to 31 March 2019 for a total amount of R81 billion. The approval of the limit was to enable Transnet to execute its funding plan as proposed in its corporate plan to execute its market demand strategy, which entailed sourcing funds from domestic and foreign lenders.

Since 1 April 2018 up to 30 September 2018, Rand Water’s borrowing limit request (domestic and foreign) and Eskom’s foreign borrowing limit request were granted.

Rand Water’s borrowing limit was approved to accommodate the high capital expenditure requirements over the next three years, which will be funded through internally generated cash and borrowings. The approved limit for Rand Water was for R6.3 billion for the 2018/19 financial year, R8.3 billion for the 2019/20 financial year and R11.6 billion for the 2020/21 financial year.

Eskom’s foreign borrowing limit was granted to enable the company to raise debt for its capital expenditure programme and liquidity. Eskom’s foreign borrowing limit was granted for one financial year, expiring on 31 March 2019, for a total amount of R308 billion.

Since 1 April 2018, a borrowing authority and the corresponding limit was approved for the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) for R450 million for the 2018/19 financial year, R351 million for the 2019/20 financial year and R331 million for the 2020/21 financial year. The application was approved for purposes of transferring liabilities (including borrowings) from the National Urban Reconstruction and Housing Agency (NURCHA) and the Rural Housing Loan Fund (RHLF) to NHFC to facilitate the merger of the three entities.

On 1 April 2018, South African Airways’ foreign borrowing limit request was rejected. In addition, Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority’s (TCTA) borrowing limit for a project was rejected.

SAA’s foreign borrowing limit was rejected due to the entity’s high debt levels, which are unsustainable. In the interest of prudent financial management, the request was reject. The amount requested was R18 billion.

TCTA’s request for a borrowing limit on one of its projects (Berg River-Voelvlei Augmentation Scheme (BRVAS)) was rejected on the basis that more work needed to be undertaken by both the TCTA and the Department of Water and Sanitation in respect of preparatory work and the due diligence. The two parties were encouraged to finalise the preparatory work for National Treasury to consider the application again. The amount requested was R581 million.

Total borrowing limits and authority granted that are applicable for the 2018/19 financial year amount to R620.44 billion (please note that the Minister of Finance is only required to approve foreign borrowing limits in terms of the PFMA).

18 December 2018 - NW2826

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) received any reports of reportable irregularities, in terms of section 45 of the Auditing Profession Act, Act 26 of 2005, in respect of each major public entity as outlined in Schedule 2 of the Public Finance Management Act, Act 1 of 1999, since 3 August 2017; if not, why not; if so, (a) on what date was each report received, (b) what is the name of the auditor from which each such report was received, (c) what are the details of the matters addressed in each report and (e) what action was taken following receipt of each such report by the IRBA?

Source
Link

Reply:

The IRBA hereby declares that the following RI’s were declared to us:

IRBA Reference Number	Public Entity	Date of 1st RI report	Date of 2nd RI report	Name of Registered Auditor	Firm	Particulars of matters addressed in report	Status of RI	Action(s) undertaken by the IRBA - if any
2018/0240	Eskom Pension and Provident Fund	03-Aug-17	03-Aug-17	Clinton Mitchelson	PWC	A trustee shared confidential information that was solicited by the fund's Board with the trade union to which the said trustee is affiliated, which the fund alleged to be a breach of the fiduciary duties owed by the particular trustee to the fund.	RI not continuing	None
2018/0429	Servcon Housing Solutions (Pty) Ltd	16-Oct-17	15-Nov-17	NC Soopal	Nexia SAB&T	Annual financial statements for the financial years ending 31 March 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 have not been prepared	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the CIPC and to SARS.
2018/0686	Eskom Holdings SOC Limited	29-Nov-17	27-Dec-17	Aaron Mthimunye	SNG	RI involves multiple unlawful activities, including: 1) Contract awarded to McKinsey and Company whilst not meeting the sole supplier justification criteria; 2) Mckinsey subcontracting work to Trillian Management Consultancy in contravention of the PPPFA; 3) Guarantee provided to Tegeta Exploration and Resources on behalf of Eskom by the suspended CEO for the purchase of the Optimum Coal Mine without it having any commercial purpose etc.	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the AG, the CIPC, the Department of Public Enterprises and the JSE.
2019/0057	Eskom Holdings SOC Limited	11-May-18	21-Jun-18	Aaron Mthimunye	SNG	RI involves multiple unlawful activities, including: 1) Distribution of confidential documents by a senior official; 2) Payments made to Trillian Management Consulting in the absence of a contract; 3) Alleged bribery in the awarding of an ICT contract etc.	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the AG, CIPC, the Department of Public Enterprises, the JSE, the DPCI, the FIC and National Treasury.
2019/0110	Eskom Finance Company SOC Limited	04-Jun-18	03-Jul-18	K Hlajoane	SNG	CIPC records are outdated	RI not continuing	None
2019/0111	Transnet SOC Limited	04-Jun-18	04-Jul-18	Alex Philippou	SNG	Multiple instances of alleged unlawful activities involving contraventions of the PFMA, the Companies Act, Transnet's Procurement Procedure Manual, National Treasury Instruction Notes etc.	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the AG, CIPC, the Department of Public Enterprises, the JSE and National Treasury.

2019/0232	Alexkor SOC Limited	11-Jul-18	08-Aug-18	Luvo Mvinjwa	SNG	Multiple instances of alleged unlawful activities involving contraventions of the PFMA, the Companies Act, National Treasury Instruction Notes etc.	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the AG, CIPC, the Department of Public Enterprises and National Treasury.
2019/0318	Transnet Ontspanningsklub Groeppensionfonds	13-Aug-18	13-Aug-18	I Potgieter	PKF	Various statutory valuations for the fund are outstanding.	RI continuing	RI report onwards sent to the FSCA (old FSB)
2019/0356	Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority	30-Aug-18	29-Sep-18	E van Rooyen	E&Y	A forensic investigation concluded that the selection of a particular contractor on a single-source base was flawed and that the CEO at the time was suspected of colluding with the said contractor. A criminal investigation was ongoing at the time of RI reporting and the contentious contract was cancelled.	RI not continuing	None

18 December 2018 - NW2849

Robertson, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether the Government received the € 30 million pledged by the Kingdom of Belgium for land reform purposes; if not, what are the relevant details; if so, (a) for which land reform projects will the Government utilise the funds and (b) what amount in Rand did the Government receive from the pledged amount?

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Link

Reply:

In response to this question, it should be noted that the National Treasury has not been involved in any recent negotiation with the Kingdom of Belgium for further support within the land sector; no commitments for this sector have been discussed, negotiated or received from the Government has been to the amount €18 150 000M from 2004-2015 for land reform programmes in South Africa. These constituted three programmes managed by the then Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs and the current Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.

18 December 2018 - NW2850

Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether the section 71 reports from any municipalities indicated that they had invested funds with VBS Mutual Bank, or any other mutual bank, prior to October 2016; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) in each case where such indications were found, was any action was taken by the National Treasury; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?

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Link

Reply:

1. Yes - As part of the quarterly Section 71 publications municipalities are required to submit the status of their investment register together with the detail of each investment made. These investment lists are published per municipality as part of the quarterly Section 71 results and can be accessed at:

http://mfma.treasury.gov.za/Media_Releases/s71/Pages/default.aspx

2. The Section 71 publication consists of the financial and conditional grant information of 257 municipalities. The publication also covers 21 different conditional grants and additional information in different dimensions to cater for a wide variety of stakeholders such as Parliament, Municipal councils, lenders, rating agencies and the general public. With respect to investments, municipalities reported on 2 563 investment instruments with various banks.

While the National Treasury collects, consolidates and publishes quarterly summaries in various financial dimensions for all municipalities, in terms of Section 151(3) of the Constitution, the municipal council remains the final accountable institution. This is to ensure that the information reported is used for management purposes and account to the respective municipal councils.

Considering the amount of data lines reported, the investments associated with the VBS Mutual Bank got absorbed in the national aggregation process. Section 13 of the MFMA empowers the Minister of Finance to prescribe a framework within which municipalities may, amongst others, invest money not immediately required. Such a framework was provided in the Municipal Investment Regulations which sets out a list of permitted investments municipalities may invest municipal funds. In terms of Regulation 6, municipalities may invest funds only in banks registered in terms of the Banks Act. The Venda Building Society Mutual Bank (VBS) is not registered under the Banks Act of 1990, it was never envisaged that municipalities (Municipal managers and CFOs) would deliberately break the law in their choices of where they invest. To address this issue, the National Treasury has now, as part of the mSCOA reform improved the reporting on investment information to only be linked to registered banks aligned to Regulation 6.

18 December 2018 - NW2882

Gardee, Mr GA to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the reply to question 2362 on 14 September 2018, what is the (a) name of each and (b) number of private security services companies that have contracts with the State?

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Link

Reply:

The following information was accessed from the Central Supplier Database system by the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer:

a) A list of companies with open orders that are linked to private security services either via the industry they are active in or the commodities they supply to government, in an Excel format (ANNEXURE A); and

b) The list indicates a total number of 2879 companies.

18 December 2018 - NW2883

Gardee, Mr GA to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the reply of the Minister of Public Service and Administration to question 2361 on 17 September 2018, what (a) number of government employees on (i) national and (ii) provincial level on the PERSAL system are over the age of 60 years and (b) is the breakdown of the specified government employees in terms of (i) age, (ii) department and (iii) salary level?

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Reply:

a) Number of employees aged 60 and older per sphere of government as at September 2018 for all the departments (South African National Defence Force data extracted from September 2017:

Sphere	Number of employees aged 60 and older
Eastern Cape	6 458
Free State	2 788
Gauteng	8 329
Kwa-Zulu Natal	7 309
Limpopo Province	5 303
Mpumalanga	2 908
National Departments	6 221
North West	2 762
Northern Cape	1 257
Western Cape	4 873

Notes:

1) Data presented as at end September 2018. South African National Defence Force data as at September 2017

b) Breakdown of specified government employees in terms of:

(i) Age

Age	Number of employees aged 60 and older
60	14 734
61	10 436
62	8 429
63	6 481
64	5 373
65	568
66	254
67	174
68	137
69	120
70	121
71	89
72	79
73	49
74	61
75	40
76	32
77	36
78	45
79	27
80	23
81	18
82	21
83	19
84	19
85	12
86	12
87	9
88	12
89	7
90	6
91	1
92	2
94	1
95	1
97	1
999	759

Notes:

1) Data presented as at end September 2018. South African National Defence Force data as at September 2017

(ii) Department

Sphere	Department	Age 60 and older
Eastern Cape	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	15
Eastern Cape	Vote 02: Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature	25
Eastern Cape	Vote 03: Health	2 183
Eastern Cape	Vote 04: Social Development And Special Programmes	57
Eastern Cape	Vote 05: Public Works	101
Eastern Cape	Vote 06: Education	3 071
Eastern Cape	Vote 07: Cooperative Governance And Traditional Affairs	591
Eastern Cape	Vote 08: Rural Development And Agrarian Reform	147
Eastern Cape	Vote 09: Economic Development Environmental Affairs And Tourism	14
Eastern Cape	Vote 10: Transport	182
Eastern Cape	Vote 11: Human Settlements	15
Eastern Cape	Vote 12: Provincial Treasury	9
Eastern Cape	Vote 14: Sport Recreation Arts And Culture	44
Eastern Cape	Vote 15: Safety And Liaison	4
Free State	Vote 01: Premier	17
Free State	Vote 03: Economic And Small Business Development Tourism And Environmental	32
Free State	Vote 04: Provincial Treasury	4
Free State	Vote 05: Health	875
Free State	Vote 06: Education	1 394
Free State	Vote 07: Social Development	70
Free State	Vote 08: Cooperative Governance And Traditional Affairs	27
Free State	Vote 09: Public Works And Infrastructure	104
Free State	Vote 10: Police Roads And Transport	168
Free State	Vote 11: Agriculture And Rural Development	49
Free State	Vote 12: Sport Arts Culture And Recreation	44
Free State	Vote 13: Human Settlements	4
Gauteng	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	12
Gauteng	Vote 03: Economic Development	3
Gauteng	Vote 04: Health	2 947
Gauteng	Vote 05: Education	4 827
Gauteng	Vote 06: Social Development	132
Gauteng	Vote 07: Co Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs	30
Gauteng	Vote 08: Human Settlements	46
Gauteng	Vote 09: Roads And Transport	95
Gauteng	Vote 10: Community Safety	25
Gauteng	Vote 11: Agriculture And Rural Development	22
Gauteng	Vote 12: Sport Arts Culture And Recreation	19
Gauteng	Vote 13: eGovernment	16
Gauteng	Vote 14: Provincial Treasury	20
Gauteng	Vote 15: Infrastructure Development	135
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	39
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 03: Agriculture And Rural Development	117
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 04: Economic Development Tourism And Environmental Affairs	14
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 05: Education	3 686
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 06: Finance	7
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 07: Health	2 906
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 08: Human Settlements	34
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 09: Community Safety And Liaison	4
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 10: Sport And Recreation	2
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 11: Cooperative Governance And Traditional Affairs	135
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 12: Transport	177
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 13: Social Development	77
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 14: Public Works	97
KwaZulu Natal	Vote 15: Arts And Culture	14
Limpopo Province	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	25
Limpopo Province	Vote 02: Provincial Legislature	10
Limpopo Province	Vote 03: Education	2 294
Limpopo Province	Vote 04: Agriculture And Rural Development	285
Limpopo Province	Vote 05: Provincial Treasury	27
Limpopo Province	Vote 06: Economic Development Environment And Tourism	112
Limpopo Province	Vote 07: Health	1 548
Limpopo Province	Vote 08: Transport	114
Limpopo Province	Vote 09: Public Works Roads And Infrastructure	624
Limpopo Province	Vote 10: Community Safety	4
Limpopo Province	Vote 11: Cooperative Governance Human Settlements And Traditional Affairs	196
Limpopo Province	Vote 12: Social Development	49
Limpopo Province	Vote 13: Sport Arts And Culture	15
Mpumalanga	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	14
Mpumalanga	Vote 03: Finance	12
Mpumalanga	Vote 04: Co Operative Governance And Traditional Affairs	28
Mpumalanga	Vote 05: Agriculture Rural Development And Land Administration	113
Mpumalanga	Vote 06: Economic Development And Tourism	13
Mpumalanga	Vote 07: Education	1 695
Mpumalanga	Vote 08: Public Works Roads And Transport	205
Mpumalanga	Vote 09: Community Safety Security And Liaison	27
Mpumalanga	Vote 10: Health	745
Mpumalanga	Vote 11: Culture Sport And Recreation	17
Mpumalanga	Vote 12: Social Development	29
Mpumalanga	Vote 13: Dept Of Human Settlements	10
National Departments	Civilian Secretariat	6
National Departments	Government Communication And Information System	11
National Departments	Military Veterans	7
National Departments	National Defence Force	1 167
National Departments	National Prosecuting Authority	111
National Departments	National School of Government	6
National Departments	Public Service Commission	19
National Departments	Traditional Affairs	3
National Departments	Vote 01: The Presidency	14
National Departments	Vote 03: Communications	3
National Departments	Vote 04: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs	8
National Departments	Vote 05: Home Affairs	154
National Departments	Vote 06: International Relations And Cooperation	188
National Departments	Vote 07: National Treasury	30
National Departments	Vote 08: Planning Monitoring and Evaluation.	6
National Departments	Vote 09: Public Enterprises	3
National Departments	Vote 10: Public Service And Administration	17
National Departments	Vote 11: Public Works	15
National Departments	Vote 12: Statistics South Africa	71
National Departments	Vote 13: Women	1
National Departments	Vote 14: Basic Education	51
National Departments	Vote 15: Higher Education And Training	1 417
National Departments	Vote 16: Health	69
National Departments	Vote 17: Social Development	34
National Departments	Vote 18: Correctional Services	47
National Departments	Vote 20: Independent Police Investigative Directorate	4
National Departments	Vote 21: Justice And Constitutional Development	699
National Departments	Vote 22: National Office of the Chief Justice	385
National Departments	Vote 23: Police	726
National Departments	Vote 24: Agriculture Forestry And Fisheries	313
National Departments	Vote 25: Economic Development	4
National Departments	Vote 26: Energy	12
National Departments	Vote 27: Environmental Affairs	41
National Departments	Vote 28: Labour	162
National Departments	Vote 29: Mineral Resources	34
National Departments	Vote 30: Science And Technology	11
National Departments	Vote 31: Small Business Development	2
National Departments	Vote 32: Telecommunications and Postal Services	7
National Departments	Vote 33: Tourism	8
National Departments	Vote 34: Trade And Industry	41
National Departments	Vote 35: Transport	24
National Departments	Vote 36: Water and Sanitation	169
National Departments	Vote 37: Arts And Culture	11
National Departments	Vote 38: Human Settlements	19
National Departments	Vote 39: Rural Development And Land Reform	79
National Departments	Vote 40: Sport And Recreation South Africa	12
North West	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	21
North West	Vote 03: Health	828
North West	Vote 04: Culture Arts And Traditional Affairs	36
North West	Vote 05: Community Safety And Transport Management	52
North West	Vote 06: Economy And Enterprise Development	12
North West	Vote 07: Finance	16
North West	Vote 08: Education And Sports Development	1 390
North West	Vote 09: Loc Gov And Human Settlements	40
North West	Vote 10: Tourism	10
North West	Vote 11: Public Works and Roads	212
North West	Vote 12: Social Development	26
North West	Vote 13: Rural Environment And Agriculture Development	119
Northern Cape	Vote 01: Office Of The Premier	12
Northern Cape	Vote 02: Provincial Legislature	4
Northern Cape	Vote 03: Transport Safety And Liaison	2
Northern Cape	Vote 04: Education	748
Northern Cape	Vote 05: Roads And Public Works	63
Northern Cape	Vote 06: Economic Development And Tourism	5
Northern Cape	Vote 07: Sport Arts And Culture	16
Northern Cape	Vote 08: Provincial Treasury	6
Northern Cape	Vote 09: Cooperative Governance Human Settlements And Traditional Affairs	31
Northern Cape	Vote 10: Health	317
Northern Cape	Vote 11: Social Development	20
Northern Cape	Vote 12: Agriculture Land Reform And Rural Development	29
Northern Cape	Vote 13: Environment And Nature Conservation	4
Western Cape	Vote 01: The Premier	34
Western Cape	Vote 03: Provincial Treasury	5
Western Cape	Vote 04: Community Safety	13
Western Cape	Vote 05: Education	3 129
Western Cape	Vote 06: Health	1 372
Western Cape	Vote 07: Social Development	67
Western Cape	Vote 08: Human Settlements	17
Western Cape	Vote 09: Environmental Affairs And Development Planning	9
Western Cape	Vote 10: Transport And Public Works	120
Western Cape	Vote 11: Agriculture	49
Western Cape	Vote 12: Economic Development And Tourism	6
Western Cape	Vote 13: Cultural Affairs And Sport	36
Western Cape	Vote 14: Local Government	16

Notes:

1) Data presented as at end September 2018. South African National Defence Force data as at September 2017

(iii) Salary Level

Salary Level	Age 60 and older
0	2 018
1	53
2	2 629
3	7 132
4	1 374
5	2 503
6	3 451
7	5 939
8	5 944
9	6 908
10	4 849
11	1 922
12	2 132
13	639
14	290
15	98
16	327

Notes:

1) Data presented as at end September 2018. South African National Defence Force data as at September 2017

18 December 2018 - NW2945

Rawula, Mr T to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the reply to question 2494 on 9 October 2018, by what date will the payment to a certain person (name furnished) in recognition of life partnership application be finalised and (b) by what date will the specified person start receiving payment?

Source
Link

Reply:

The life partner was paid on the 7 September 2018, the monthly pension arrears and will receive a monthly pension on the 31st of every month.

18 December 2018 - NW2969

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

What are the details of the appointment of a certain person (name furnished) in terms of the (a) qualifications required for the position, (b) qualifications that the specified person possesses, (c) process that was followed to attract applicants for the position, (d) applicants who applied for the position and (e) reasons the specified person was appointed to the position?

Source
Link

Reply:

a) An appropriate postgraduate qualification.

b) PhD: Management, Administration and Policy;

Masters in Management, Administration and Policy; and

Bachelor of Social Science.

c) The position for Chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission was advertised in national newspapers during September 2016. The closing date for applications was 7 October 2016.

d) Thirteen applications were received. see the link:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2969_Applications.pdf

e) The Chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission is appointed by the President together with a member of Cabinet, i.e. in this instance, the Minister of Finance. Prof Plaatjies was recommended by the Minister of Finance prior to his appointment by the President. In addition to his qualifications, Prof Plaatjies has held the following positions:

1.Part-time Commissioner of the Financial and Fiscal Commission;

2.Executive Director: Democracy, Governance and Service at the Human Rights Research Council;

3.Adviser to the Minister for Public Service and Administration;

4. Head of Performance and Evaluation in the Office of the Premier for the Free State Provincial Government;

5. Deputy Director-General at the South African Social Security Agency.

18 December 2018 - NW2968

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

What (a) total number of consent orders did the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors make in the 2017-18 financial year, (b) number of the specified consent orders were finalised, (c) is the detailed breakdown of the number of orders that were made and finalised against each audit firm and registered auditor, (d) are the details of any fines and penalties imposed on each (i) audit firm and (ii) registered auditor, (e) are the dates in each case and (f) are the details of the transgressions on which the consent orders were issued in each case?

Source
Link

Reply:

IRBA News Edition 38 – April - June 2017

No Disciplinary Advisory Committee meetings convened in this period.

IRBA News Edition 39 – July - Sept 2017

Consent order	Matter 1 - Audit	Fine of R200 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, R20 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 2 - Audit	Fine of R200 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, R20 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 3 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 4 -Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R20 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 5 - Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 6 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 7 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 8 - Audit	Fine of R40 000 with R20 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 9 - Audit	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 10 - Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 11 - Audit	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 12 -Audit	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 13 -Audit	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication. In addition the imposition of a previously suspended fine of R50,000 relating to a previous matter became payable.
Consent order	Matter 14 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 15 - Audit	Fine of R60 000 with R30 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 16 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 17 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 18 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 19 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 20 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 21 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 22 - Companies Act	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, R5 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 23- Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 24 - Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 25- Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 26 - Audit	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Referred to Disciplinary hearing	Matter 27 - Audit	In progress
Referred to Disciplinary hearing	Matter 28 -Tax	In progress

IRBA News Edition 40 – Oct- Dec 2017
Consent order	Matter 1- Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, R25 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 2-Audit	Fine of R100 0000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, R25 000 costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 3- Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 4- Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 5- Tax	Fine of R150 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 6 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R20 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 7 -Audit	Fine of R60 000 with R30 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Referred to Disciplinary hearing	Matter 8 -Audit	In progress

IRBA News Edition 41 – Jan - Mar 2018
Discharge	Rule 3.5.1.1	3 matters
Discharge	Rule 3.5.1.3	1 matter
Consent order	Matter 1 - Audit	Fine of R180 000 with full amount suspended until re-registration, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 2 - Auditing Profession Act	Fine of R50 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 3 - Audit	Fine of R100 000 with R50 000 suspended for 3years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 4 - Audit, Companies Act	Fine of R150 000 with R75 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 5 - Assurance	Fine of R80 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Consent order	Matter 6 - Assurance	Fine of R120 000 with R40 000 suspended for 3 years, no costs, general publication
Referred to Disciplinary hearing	Matter 7 - Audit, Code	In progress
Referred to Disciplinary hearing	Matter 8 - Assurance	In progress

18 December 2018 - NW2970

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

What (a) is the total cost of legal expenses incurred by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) (i) in the 2017-18 financial year and (ii) since 1 April 2018, (b) percentage of the total expenses incurred by the FCC is constituted of legal expenses in each case and (c)(i) is the total number of cases, (ii) are the details of the legal matters covered in each case and (iii) is the total cost incurred for each case?

Source
Link

Reply:

(a) (i) The total cost of legal expenses during 2017-18 financial year amounted to R198 800

(ii) The total cost of legal expenses since 1 April 2018 amounted to R139 955

(b) Percentage of each case in 2017-18 financial year see below link:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2970_Percentage_2017-18..pdf

Percentage of each case since 1 April 2018 see below link:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2970_Percentage_2018-19.pdf

Total number of cases since 1 April 2018 – 1

(ii) All cases dealt with labour matters

(iii) Refer to table in b above

18 December 2018 - NW3038

Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

(1) Whether KPMG was involved in auditing any (a)(i) national and (ii) provincial departments and (b) state-owned entities in the past three financial years; if so, in each case, (i) which (aa) department and (bb) entity did the specified company audit, (ii) what are the details of the audit outcomes and findings and (iii) what amount was paid to the audit company for the auditing services rendered; (2) whether there were any incidents where the specified audit outcomes were found to have been (a) falsified, (b) misleading and/or (c) irregular in any way; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?

Source
Link

Reply:

1. (a) (i) and (ii) The audit of National and Provincial departments are done by the office of the Auditor General (AGSA), therefore this question should be referred to the AGSA.

(b) State-owned entities appoints their auditors in concurrence with Auditor General for final approval, through their boards or accounting authorities, therefore the information should be requested from the Auditor-General

2. The response on the incidents of the audit outcome should be requested from the Office of the Auditor General for all national, provincial departments and for the State-Owned entity.

18 December 2018 - NW3058

McLoughlin, Mr AR to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)With reference to the Auditor-General’s latest Annual Report, how does the National Treasury intend to cover the budgetary shortfall that will be created by the proposed writing off of R58 million in unpaid audit fees; (2) does the National Treasury intend to obtain a refund of the sum of R150 million assistance to be provided to the Auditor-General (AG), from those municipalities who have failed to settle their audit accounts and which have caused the need for such assistance to be given to the AG; (3) whether he intends to set up some form of mediation committee to attempt to find resolutions in the cases where disputes arise between the AG and his auditees to prevent the unacceptable situation that ensues when two government departments or entities employ the services of private legal practitioners to argue their respective cases before the courts of the country, such as recently happened between the SA Revenue Service and the AG and the Department of Water and Sanitation and the AG; (4) (a) what has so far been the total cost to the AG’s office for all legal fees and disbursements relating to litigation conducted by auditees against the AG in each of the past five financial years and (b) to which firms of attorneys were these costs paid; (5) (a) on what legislative basis did he rely to settle the accounts of municipalities who owe the AG’s office unpaid audit fees and (b) does he intend to now also pay other debts owed by municipalities to other debtors from the National Revenue Fund?

Source
Link

Reply:

1. The Auditor-General (AGSA) accepted the National Treasury’s offer for a full and final settlement of the accumulated outstanding fees in terms of section 23(6) of the Public Audit Act (PAA), Act no.25 of 2004, as at 2017/18. The AGSA does not receive direct funding from the National Treasury and as such, the National Treasury will not cover any budgetary shortfall arising from the write-off of unpaid audit fees.

2. In terms of section 23(6) of PAA, if the audit fee exceeds one percent of the total current and capital expenditure of such an auditee for the financial year, such excess must be defrayed from the National Treasury’s vote, provided that, the National Treasury is of the view that the auditee has financial difficulty to settle the cost. This excludes national and provincial departments. Therefore, based on these provisions PAA above, the National Treasury does not intend obtaining a refund for the R150 million assistance given to the AGSA on behalf of the municipalities.

3. The National Treasury (NT) and AGSA has well documented dispute resolution mechanisms in place to deal with technical and accounting cases where an entity disagrees with an audit finding of the AGSA. A situation that is occurring more frequently is where the AG and NT agrees on a case, but the auditee refuses to accept the final resolution and continues to challenge both the final opinion of AGSA and NT. The NT agrees that in most cases, state funds should not be used to litigate against the audit opinions of the AGSA, as these cases can be solved in the normal process.

4. The National Treasury does not have the information available, these costs and legal firms used must be obtained from the individual departments and public entities that have pursued the legal action.

5. The National Treasury has since the effective date of the approval of the Public Audit Act, Act No. 25 of 2004 (PAA), been assisting with the payment of audit fees of applicable entities and municipalities that, based on the view of National Treasury, are in financial difficulty. These payments are done in accordance with section 23(6) of the PAA, and are only done for audit fees that exceeds one percent of the total current and capital expenditure of auditees in financial distress. It must be mentioned that National Treasury has a specific amount appropriated in the budget for settling audit fees of struggling entities. Unfortunately, the budgeted amount is not always adequate to cover all the amounts owed to the AGSA. For this reason, the National Treasury has put forward measures to improve the payment of outstanding audit fees for auditees in financial distress in the amendments to the Public Audit Act.

18 December 2018 - NW3061

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)Whether a certain official of the SA Revenue Services (Sars) was authorised to participate in an interview with the SA Broadcasting Corporation on 17 October 2018; if so, who authorised the specified person to participate in the specified interview; (2) whether the statements made by the person during the interview were authorised by the Commissioner of Sars; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) whether the statements made by the person during the interview are an accurate reflection of the status of the information technology (IT) systems at Sars; if not, (a) why are they not accurate and (b) what is the real status of Sars’ IT systems; (4) whether any disciplinary action has been instituted against the specified person due to the statements made during the interview; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Source
Link

Reply:

1. The certain official was duly authorised by the Acting Commissioner of SARS to participate in the said interview. Aside from the Commissioner, Chief Officers comprise the top rung of SARS leadership. Historically, when the appointed Commissioner is unavailable, a Chief Officer is appointed to act as the Commissioner. A Chief Officer is expected to represent SARS at the highest levels, including at international events and in interviews with the media particularly when the subject matter falls within the Chief Officer’s mandate. The authority given by the Acting Commissioner was based on the understanding that a SARS Chief Officer and member of EXCO should be competent and able to fully address any matter of SARS culture, vision, strategy, policy and operations that arises in an interview and particularly when the issues relate to his/her portfolio of accountability.

2. Statements made by the SARS official during the interview were not authorised by the Commissioner of SARS in any event there are no means of ensuring that representations by SARS executives are approved by the Commissioner prior to any interview as interviews in their very nature are dynamic and not preemptive. Chief Officers of SARS are expected to be able to handle any matter relating to their area of accountability.

(3)(a) The statements made by the person during the interview did not describe the state of SARS IT and what is required to enhance the IT systems.

3(b) Although SARS IT systems are ageing and require continuous maintenance, they are currently stable, operative and serving our clients well. The SARS technical IT teams have the necessary skills to ensure we modernize our systems and SARS is committed to providing the required resources to enable us to eventually have the ideal technology offering. SARS is on record on the need to refresh its ageing ICT infrastructure and plans in this regard are underway.

(4) The contents of the interview have impacted on SARS and the issue of disciplinary proceedings is being considered. The most appropriate steps will be taken once a preliminary opinion has been formulated and formal discussions have taken place.

18 December 2018 - NW3071

Maynier, Mr D to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether an illicit economy unit has been and/or will be established in the SA Revenue Service; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Source
Link

Reply:

The re-establishment of the Illicit Economy unit (IEU) at SARS is currently in progress and will be implemented in two phases. The 1st phase will be an interim IEU solution, which is scheduled to be functional by November 2018.

This two pronged approach to establish the specialized enforcement capability and capacity is being pursued, first an interim capacity and capability to immediately respond to the current illicit economic activities, and second, developing and implementing the organisational design to build the full functioning IEU of the future. Given the current limited capability and capacity, the focus of the Interim IEU relate to organised tax, Customs and Excise evasion schemes inter-alia in the following industries: Tobacco, Cash and Carry, Textiles, Alcohol and Fuel. In addition, abusive practices such as advanced import payments and currency smuggling, phoenixism, abusive liquidation and business rescue practices and Syndicated refund fraud, including organised VAT fraud such as carousel structures will also be addressed as per the IEU mandate.

Currently SARS have identified 58 potential cases that fall within the illicit IEU mandate. A new conceptual design and interim structure for the illicit economy Unit has been developed and approved.

The 2nd phase will involve the compete operationalisation of the IEU. The anticipated completion of the 2nd phase will be June 2019."

18 December 2018 - NW3156

Dlamini, Mr MM to ask the Minister of Finance

With reference to the Minister of Energy’s reply to question 2344 on 15 October 2018, what (a) is the annual salary of a certain person (name furnished) and (b) are the relevant details of the time period of the specified person’s employment or contract?

Source
Link

Reply:

a) The annual salary of the indicated person is R3 812 280.00.

b) The official was appointed by the Development Bank of Southern Africa on 31 March 2016 on a three year contract which ends on 28 February 2019. Prior to that she was seconded to the IPP office by the National Treasury.

01 November 2018 - NW2753

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

Source
Link

Reply:

Yes, one forensic investigation was conducted into the operations of the Financial and Fiscal Commission in the period 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2018.

(a) The forensic investigation was conducted by the Special Audit Services of the National Treasury together with a private firm called Bowman Gilfillan.

(b) The total forensic investigation fees paid by the National Treasury to Bowman Gilfillan amounted to R1,3 Million.

(d) One report on the Investigation into the allegation of fraud, corruption, fruitless and wasteful expenditure and maladministration at the Financial and Fiscal Commission was produced.

(e) Recommendations contained in the report covered the following matters:

(i) Disciplinary action to be taken against employees

(ii) Matters to be referred to law enforcement agencies to initiate criminal investigation

(iii) Recovery of monies from the implicated employees.

f) (i) Disciplinary action has begun against affected employees. Two of the employees have resigned

(ii) Criminal matters were referred to the South African Police Services on 26 July 2017 by the National Treasury.

(iv) Recovery of monies process will be initiated once the disciplinary actions have been finalized

g) See( f) (i) above

01 November 2018 - NW2517

Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether the SA Reserve Bank or any of its departments conducted any form of compliance monitoring on the VBS Mutual Bank relating to its acceptance of illegal deposits from municipalities (a) in the (i) 2014-15, (ii) 2015-16, (iii) 2016-17 and/or (iv) 2017-18 financial years and (b) since 1 April 2018; if not, why not; if so, (aa) on what date did such compliance monitoring take place and (bb) what (i) were the findings and (ii) action was taken in each case?

Source
Link

Reply:

I have requested the South African Reserve Bank to provide the relevant information to the National Treasury to respond to this question, which supervised VBS Mutual Bank during the period in question.

The South African Reserve Bank does not generally conduct compliance monitoring by banks of laws falling outside our financial sector-regulatory laws. Its focuses during the period in question was on the licensing of banks and compliance with financial-sector laws like the Banks Act, Mutual Banks Act, Financial Sector Regulation Act, Currency and Exchange Act and the Financial Intelligence Act, and does so via the Prudential Authority (since 1 April 2018 and before that via the Bank Supervision Department) and Financial Surveillance department for exchange-control and authorized-deal related laws.

The Prudential Authority regulates banks for prudential objectives related to their financial health, and the protection of depositor-funds to ensure that banks have the ability to deliver on their promises, especially to pay retail depositors when they want their funds. The Reserve Bank is also not a market conduct regulator, and banks were generally not regulated for market conduct (except for the provision of retail credit) before 1 April 2018, when the new Financial Sector Regulation Act came into effect. The new Financial Sector Conduct Authority, together with the National Credit Regulator, will both be also supervising banks for market conduct henceforth.

It should be noted that the onus for compliance with all laws lies with the management of any bank, under the oversight of its Board and shareholders. Regulators such as the Prudential Authority do not manage banks, nor do they oversee the operations of a bank on a day-to-day basis. VBS Mutual Bank’s (VBS) financial year ends in March.

With regard to VBS, I want to refer the Honorable Member to the report released by the SA Reserve Bank titled “The Great Bank Heist” issued by independent investigator Advocate T Motau and his team, made public on xxx October 2018 (and which can be accessed from www.resbank.co.za).

With regard to your specific questions related to the acceptance of illegal of municipal deposits, it should be noted that VBS is allowed to accept deposits in terms of section 54(1)(a) of the Mutual Banks Act, 1993 which reads as follows, “A mutual bank may, subject to the provision of this Act and such directives as may from time to time be issued by the Registrar- a) accept deposits and grant loans, advances or other credit in the Republic.” There is no specific provision in the Mutual Banks Act which prohibits mutual banks from accepting deposits from municipalities, but section 7((3) of the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003 (MFMA) prohibits a municipality from opening a bank account with an institution that is not a registered bank in terms of the Banks Act. Since the SA Reserve Bank does not specifically monitor with compliance of the MFMA, it (and National Treasury) only became aware that such deposits were not legal in 2017.

The Report by Adv Motau outlines new facts that the SA Reserve Bank is still considering, especially given that many there was massive fraud committed, including in the monthly and audited financial statements. Further investigations are also taking place as a result of this report.

The SA Reserve Bank and Government will respond in more detail (including on municipal deposits) when all or most of the investigative processes have been completed and make public.

25 October 2018 - NW2518

Mileham, Mr K to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)What (a) was the (i) nature and (ii) terms of the directive issued by the Bank Supervision Department of the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) to the VBS Mutual Bank for noncompliance with anti-money laundering and/or combatting the financing of terrorism regulations in the 2016-17 financial year and (b) remedial action was the VBS Mutual Bank instructed to take in terms of the specified directive; (2) whether the VBS Mutual Bank took steps to comply with the directive; if so, what are the details of the remedial action taken by the bank to comply with the directive; (3) whether the Bank Supervision Department of the SARB took any steps to monitor and enforce compliance with the directive; if not, why not; if so, (a) what steps were taken and (b) how often was monitoring conducted?

Source
Link

Reply:

The SA Reserve Bank is the authority responsible for the supervision of banks and mutual banks in terms of the FIC Act and has provided the following response:

1. Information pertaining to the administrative sanctions imposed on VBS Mutual Bank for its non-compliance with the FIC Act was set out in the SARB’s media statement published on 4 August 2017. For the ease of reference, the details as per the media statement have been set out below:

“The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has imposed administrative sanctions on VBS Mutual Bank (VBS) for non-compliance with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001, as amended (FIC Act) and has directed VBS to take remedial action. This was after the SARB conducted an inspection in terms of the FIC Act and found weaknesses in VBS’s anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism control measures.

The FIC Act mandates the SARB to ensure that banks have adequate controls in place to combat acts of money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Flowing from these responsibilities, the SARB inspects banks to assess whether they have appropriate measures in place as required by the FIC Act.

It should be noted that the administrative sanctions were not imposed because VBS was found to have facilitated transactions involving money laundering or the financing of terrorism but because of weaknesses in VBS’s control measures.

The administrative sanctions imposed on VBS are a financial penalty of R2.5 million and a directive to take remedial action in the following areas:

i) identifying and verifying customers’ details (better known as know-your-customer or KYC requirements);

ii) failure to comply with cash threshold reporting requirements in terms of section 28 of the FIC Act;

iii) failure to formulate and implement adequate processes and working methods to detect and report property associated with terrorist and related activities in terms of section 28A of the FIC Act.

iv) failure to formulate and implement adequate processes and working methods which would enable VBS to detect and report suspicious and unusual transactions in terms of section 29 of the FIC Act.

However, R2 million of the financial penalty is suspended, in terms of section 45C(4)(c) of the FIC Act, for a period of one (1) year from 7 June 2017, subject to VBS adhering to certain conditions imposed by the SARB.”

VBS was directed to implement several remedial measures to rectify the identified areas of non-compliance by no later than 31 December 2017. VBS subsequently submitted a request to extend the aforementioned implementation date until 31 December 2019. However, after having duly considering the request for an extension received from VBS, the SARB granted an extension in the implementation date until 31 December 2018.

2. The inspection report contained timelines for the remediation of all FIC Act non-compliance matters which had been identified during the inspection. VBS was directed to implement the appropriate remedial measures to rectify AML/CFT non-compliance by no later than 31 December 2017 (subsequently extended until 31 December 2018 as detailed in the response to question 1).

3. VBS was required to provide the SARB with the quarterly update reports on the progress made with the implementation of the specified remedial measures. VBS submitted progress reports dated 31 March 2017, 20 November 2017 and 31 January 2018. The SARB reviewed the aforementioned reports and provided VBS with feedback where necessary.

25 October 2018 - NW2814

Van Dyk, Ms V to ask the Minister of Finance

(a) What is the total equitable division of revenue for (i) local and (ii) provincial government that the Government allocated to the Northern Cape in the past five financial years in comparison to allocations to the other eight provinces and (b) what amount of the equitable division of revenue was spent on Namaqualand and specifically the Richtersveld?

Source
Link

Reply:

(a)(i)(ii) Table 1 shows the allocations to the Northern Cape province and municipalities in that province, as well as allocations to each of the other 8 provinces over the last five financial years. This information is published annually in the Division of Revenue Bill, available at www.treasury.gov.za.

Table 1: Provincial and local government allocations in the Division of Revenue, 2014/15 – 2018/19

(b) Table 2 shows allocations for Namakwa District Municipality and Richtersveld Local Municipality over the past five financial years. The provincial allocations for these municipalities were obtained from the Vulindlela system that captures provincial spending and includes geographic locators for some spending. However some spending that benefits the province as a whole (including these municipalities) will not be included in these numbers. This data should therefore be treated as the minimum amount that was allocated to be spent in these municipalities by the Northern Cape Province.

Local government allocations are taken from the annual Division of Revenue Bill, available at www.treasury.gov.za. The allocations shown for Namakwa District Municipality include allocations for the district municipality as well as all of the local municipalities in the district.

Table 2: Namakwa and Richtersveld allocations, 2014/15 – 2018/19

25 October 2018 - NW2385

Madisha, Mr WM to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether the Government intends to provide a rescue plan and/or resources to rescue VBS Mutual Bank from liquidation; if not, why not; if so, what (a) is the rationale for the provision of a rescue plan and (b) are the relevant details of the rescue plan?

Source
Link

Reply:

On the 9 August, following the recommendation from the Registrar of Banks, the Minister placed the Venda Building Society (VBS) Mutual Bank under curatorship as a consequence of the bank being unable to honour its financial commitments. Government’s primary focus is to protect ordinary retail depositors. The curatorship process is still in progress, including a forensic investigation. Following an initial report from the curator, government has already provided a guarantee to the South African Reserve Bank amounting to R336 million to facilitate the repayment of all retail deposits up to R100 000 per retail depositor, starting from Friday, 13 July 2018. Retail deposits are defined as deposits in VBS by individuals, burial societies, stokvels and savings clubs, collectively referred to as retail depositors. The guarantee does not cover municipal or corporate deposits.

Details of the qualifying depositors and modalities of payment of retail depositors can be found in Annexure A[1]. The Government will only make a final decision on further steps to take on VBS Mutual Bank once the curator and forensic investigators have submitted a further substantive report.

Beyond rescuing ordinary depositors outlined above, there are therefore no plans to rescue VBS Mutual Bank from liquidation.

https://www.resbank.co.za/Lists/News%20and%20Publications/Attachments/8657/VBS%20Mutual%20Bank%20Media%20statement,%209%20July%202018.pdf ↑

09 October 2018 - NW2329

Matiase, Mr NS to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)(a) What number of labour disputes are currently being faced by (i) the National Treasury and (ii) the entities reporting to him, (b) what is the cause of each dispute, (c) what is the nature of each dispute and (d) on what date was each dispute (i) reported and (ii) resolved; (2) (a)(i) what number of employees have been dismissed by the National Treasury in the past five years and (ii) for what reason was each employee dismissed and (b)(i) what number of the specified employees were paid severance packages and (ii) what was the monetary value of each severance package?

Source
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Reply:

NATIONAL TREASURY

(a)(i) Nine.

No.	(b) Cause Of Each Dispute	(c) Nature Of Dispute	(d) Date Dispute
			Reported	Resolved
1.	Unfair dismissal	Unfair Dismissal	27/07/17	Not resolved yet - at the Bargaining Council.
2.	Non-approval of bursary	Unfair Labour Practice	14/02/18
3.	Non-renewal of contract / permanent appointment	Unfair Dismissal	29/05/18
4.	Suspension without pay for 3 months and a Final Written Warning	Unfair Labour Practice	01/07/18
5.	Termination of employment contract	Unfair Dismissal	06/08/18
6.	Termination of employment contract	Unfair Dismissal	06/08/18

2. (a)(i) Four.

Financial Year	2(a)(ii) Reason for dismissal	b(i) Number of employees paid severance packages	b(ii) Monetary value of each severance packages
2014-2015	Sleeping on duty, security breach and theft.	Nil	Nil
2015/2016	No National Treasury employees dismissed during the year.
2016/2017	No National Treasury employees dismissed during the year.
2017/2018	No National Treasury employees dismissed during the year.
2018/2019	Late coming/time keeping, failure to attend meetings/dereliction of duty. Poor performance of work. Insubordination and disrespectful behavior. Non compliance with existing procedures/leave policy, and contemptuous, disorderly or unacceptable behavior.
	Termination due to null and void of employment contract.
	Termination due to null and void of employment contract.

ASB

The Accounting Standards Board does not have any labour disputes currently.

CBDA

(1) The Agency does not have any current labour disputes.

DBSA

Current Labour Disputes

No. of Labour disputes (a)	Cause of each Dispute (b)	Nature of each dispute (c)	Date reported (d)(i)	Date resolved (ii)
5 (CCMA/ LABOUR COURT)	Dismissal for Gross negligence (X1)	Unfair Dismissal – Labour Court	27 November 2017	Pending
	Dismissal for Unacceptable conduct (X1)	Unfair Dismissal– Labour Court	30 December 2016	Pending
	Dismissal for Gross negligence (X1)	Unfair Dismissal – Labour Court	25 October 2008	Pending
	Dismissal for Gross negligence (X1)	Unfair Dismissal – Labour Court	03 August 2012	Pending
	Dispute regarding retirement age (X1)	Automatically Unfair Dismissal – Labour Court	01 February 2011	Pending
3 (Internal)	Dishonesty and Gross Negligence	Misconduct	21 May 2018	June 2018
	Failure to comply with company policies and procedures & dishonesty.	Misconduct	25 May 2018	Pending
	Gross Misconduct	Misconduct	10 May 2018	Pending

FIC

(1) (ii) Financial Intelligence Centre

(a)

Number of labour disputes currently

(b)

Cause of dispute

(c)

Nature of each dispute

(d)

Date reported and resolved

Poor performance

Incapacity

Reported: Referred to CCMA, 5 December 2017

Resolved: 13 August 2018

Constructive dismissal

The employee has referred the matter for review and setting aside of the arbitration, which was awarded in favour of the Financial Intelligence Centre, on 18 December 2016

Reported: Referred to Labour Court, 20 February 2017

Resolved: Not resolved

FSCA

1. (ii) Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA): - 2 (two);

(b) Both are breaches of internal disciplinary procedures;

(c) The first dispute relates to misconduct and the second dispute (which is still in process) relates to dereliction of duty;

(d) (i) Case 1. Reported on 20 February 2018

Case 2. Reported on 06 June 2018

(ii) Case 1. Based on the charges brought before the employee, verified by an employer witness and representation made by the employee, the Chairperson found the employee guilty and recommended dismissal with immediate effect. The Chairperson’s recommendations were considered by Senior Management and a resolution was taken to dismiss the employee with a month’s notice pay. The employee has referred the matter to the CCMA for arbitration and a hearing has been set down for 4 September 2018.

Case 2. Case still in progress.

GEPF

1. The GEPF is not facing any labour disputes at the moment.

2. (a)(i) Two employees have been dismissed in the past five years

(a)(ii) One employee was dismissed for breach of the Supply Chain Management Policy. One employee was dismissed for gross insubordination, abuse of company property and putting the safety of other employees at risk.

(b) (i and ii) None of the employees received severance packages.

GPAA

(a) The number of disputes is 4,

(b) The cause of each dispute were amongst others:

- Unfair dismissal
- Access to Information
- Two different cases were reported with regards to employees appointed at different salary levels.

1. Alleged unfair labour dismissal for misconduct

2. The request for information

3. Unfair Labour practice with regards to salary disparities on two matters.

(d) Date reported and resolved

Date reported Date resolved

(1) 30/10/2012 - 30/07/2018

(2) 16/02/2018 - Pending Arbitrator’s ruling

(3) 02/03/2017 - Pending notice of set - down for Arbitration

(4) 12/02/2018 - Pending notice of set - down for a review at Labour Court

IRBA

The IRBA hereby declares that;

There are currently no labour disputes within the entity.

LAND BANK

(a) What number of labour disputes are currently being faced by (i) The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (ii) the entities reporting to him, (b) what is the cause of each dispute, (c) what is the nature of each dispute and (d) on what date was each dispute (i) reported and (ii) resolved?

Current Disciplinary Matters
Nr of Labour dispute (a)	Cause of each dispute (b)	Nature of each dispute (c)	Date of dispute reported (d - i)	Date of dispute resolved (d – ii)	Comments
1	Alleged unauthorized approval by the employee provided to client on a loan agreement. Process for approval not followed.	Gross Negligence	June 2018	Unresolved, matter under investigation
2	Disciplinary enquiry regarding non-compliance to Procurement processes	Gross Negligence	Dec 2017	August 2018	Disciplinary process was in progress however employee resigned and resignation was accepted.
3	Breach of PFMA and non-compliance to Procurement	Gross Negligence	May 2018	July 2018	Disciplinary process was in progress however employee resigned and resignation was accepted.
4	Fruitless and wasteful expenditure due to children that turned 23 was not removed from the Bankmed dependency list.	Negligence	June 2018	July 2018	Final Written warning issued to employee
5	Misconduct on I.T relate matters	Suspension
Referred to CCMA and Labour Court
Nr of Labour dispute (a)	Cause of each dispute (b)		Set-down date	Comments
1	Prohibition of unfair Labour discrimination	CCMA	31 August 2018	Recruitment candidate referred matter to CCMA
2	Unfair Retrenchment	Labour Court	Awaiting Labour Court Date	Matter occurred in 2016
3	Dismissal: Disorderly Conduct and Unacceptable Behaviour	CCMA – Arbitration	27 August 2018

FAIS OMBUD

(a) (i) The FAIS Ombud currently faces six (6) labour matters in various fora.

(b) (ii) Four of them were initiated by the former employees challenging alleged unfair dismissal based on a combination of misconduct and poor performance. The fifth referred a constructive dismissal case. The last is an alleged breach of employment contract dispute before the Magistrates’ Court by a candidate whose appointment was revoked on the basis of an undisclosed pending fraud case, discovered through verification checks.

The four disputes were initiated in 2017, the last initiated in 2018. Only the fifth has been resolved by way of settlement of four months’ salary. The monetary value of the settlement figure was R117 859.72

PFA

(1)(a)(ii) The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator currently has two unresolved labour disputes whose details are as follows:

Labour Court: Mr M v OPFA and others JR2285/15

On 4 August 2015, Mr M was dismissed by the OPFA for poor performance (having followed a poor performance process). Mr M referred an unfair dismissal dispute to the CCMA, alleging his dismissal was procedurally and substantively unfair.

The CCMA found that Mr M dismissal was fair and issued an arbitration award to this effect. Mr M then applied to the Labour Court to have the arbitration award reviewed and set aside. Whilst the pleading stage in the matter is closed, the matter has not yet been set down for hearing.

The OPFA has very good prospects of being successful in the review application.

Unfair dismissal – CCMA case no. GATW9446-18

A former Admin Assistant, Ms M was dismissed in July 2018 due to excessive usage of the OPFA’s telephone for her private and/or personal use. Ms M referred a dispute to the CCMA alleging her dismissal was unfair.

The dismissal was effected following several warnings of misconduct to Ms M for similar misdemeanours, the last of which was a final written warning in September 2017.

In addition, in December 2017 a meeting was held with all staff and employees were specifically warned about excessive usage of the work telephone for private/personal reasons. The conduct from the employee did not stop and excessive usage was once more noticed for the months after the meeting in December 2017. At her disciplinary hearing held in April 2018, the employee pleaded guilty to the misconduct and the chairperson therefore recommended dismissal as the appropriate sanction.

Conciliation was held on 6 August 2018 but the matter could not be conciliated. The matter is now awaiting arbitration proceedings at the CCMA. No date has been provided for these arbitration proceedings.

The OPFA anticipates that it has very good prospects of being successful in defending the arbitration proceedings.

PIC

(1)

	Nature of misconduct	Outcome	Recorded	Finalised
2015/16
1	Performance related	Mutual Separation	Feb – 15	Apr - 15
1	Performance related	Mutual Separation	Feb – 16	May-16
1	Absent without authorisation	Dismissal	Apr – 15	May – 15
1	Absent without authorisation	Final written warning	Jun-16	Jul-16
1	Breach of policy	Written warning	Sep-15	Oct-15
1	Dishonesty	Resignation	Jul-15	Aug-15
2016/17

1	Performance related	Mutual Separation	Sep-16	Mar-17
2017/18
1	Insubordination	Written warning	May-17	Jun-17
1	Breach of policy	Mutual Separation	Nov-17	Apr-18
1	Possession of unauthorised documents	Dismissal	Nov-17	May-18
1	Dereliction of duties	Dismissal	Mar-18	Apr-18
1	Insubordination	Final written warning	Mar-18	Mar-18

(2)

Reason	Number of cases	Monetary value (Rands)	Date
Negotiated Termination	1	1,270,466	Apr – 15
	1	2,219,191	May – 16
	1	143,937	Mar – 17
	1	7,250,000	Apr – 18
Total	4	10,883,594

SARS

(a)(b)(c)(d)(i)

The information provided in this report relate to all labour disputes that are currently being faced and referred to external labour tribunals. The Table below provides the number of CCMA disputes SARS is currently facing. The table also refelcts the figures broken down per the nature and cause of the dispute, per financial year of referral:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2329SARS_CCMA_DISPUTE.pdf

The Table below provides the number of labour disputes SARS is currently facing at the Labour Court and/or Labour Appeal Court. The table also refelcts the figures broken down per the nature and cause of the dispute, per calendar year of referral:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2329SARS_Labour_DISPUTE.pdf

(d) on what date was each dispute ((ii) resolved;

The focus of this report is on answering the question of “dispute currently being faced” and therefore those that are open and still in progress at the relevant tribunal. Dates of resoution are therefore not yet availble until these matters are resolved.

(2) (a)(i)(ii)

The Table below provides the number of SARS employees having been dimissed over the past 5 financial years, against the reasons for the dismissals:

Terminations Reasons	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19 YTD	Grand Total
Abscondment	2	1	1	1	2		7
Discharge Incapacity Ill Health	3	2	4	1	3		13
Discharge Incapacity Poor Work Performance	1	1					2
Dismissal Misconduct	51	40	25	29	52	15	212
Grand Total	57	44	30	31	57	15	234

(b)(i) what number of the specified employees were paid severance packages and

Terminations Reasons

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

YTD

Grand Total

Severance Package

Grand Total

(ii) what was the monetary value of each severance package?

Due to confidentiality provisions associated with employees’ personal information, as protected by the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, SARS is not in a posiiton to disclose more detailed information regarding this.

SASRIA

(a) What number of labour disputes are currently being faced by Sasria?

Sasria is currently not facing any labour disputes.

TAX OMBUD

The Office of the Tax Ombud does not have any labour dispute with its employees.

09 October 2018 - NW2449

Matiase, Mr NS to ask the Minister of Finance

What is the (a) name of each investing company that has invested on land owned by (i) the National Treasury and (ii) each entity reporting to him and (b)(i) nature, (ii) value and (iii) length of each investment?

Source
Link

Reply:

NATIONAL TREASURY

(a)(i) National Treasury does not own any land and therefore does not have any company investing on land.

(b)(i)(ii)(iii) Not applicable.

ASB

The Accounting Standards Board does not own any land or any other investment property.

CBDA

The Co-operative Banks Development Agency does not own land.

DBSA

No party, other than the Development Bank of Southern Africa, has invested in land owned by it.

FAIS OMBUD

None

FIC

Not applicable to the Financial Intelligence Centre.

FSCA

Financial Sector Conduct Authority - not applicable.

GEPF

As an investor, the GEPF owns a large number of properties within its property portfolio. The property portfolio is divided into directly held properties and indirectly held properties through corporate and listed property companies.

The link below reflects the amount and type of properties that the GEPF directly holds:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2449_GEPF_TABLE.pdf

GPAA

The Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA) does not own any land.

IRBA

IRBA does not own any land.

LAND BANK

No investing company has invested on land owned by the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa.

PFA

The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator does not own land.

PIC

As an operating entity, the PIC has no investments in land, neither directly held nor through investment companies.

The rest of the question falls away.

SARS

SARS does not have any land that is owned or managed through an investing company.

SARS however owns buildings that have vacant land for possible expansion purposes.

SASRIA

Sasria SOC Ltd does not own land, and as such has no investments on land. Our investments are administered by asset managers, and consist of various asset classes. We are not aware of any of our investment being specifically on land, however, we do carry investments in property bonds.

TAX OMBUD

The OTO does not own any land.

09 October 2018 - NW2383

Lekota, Mr M to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)In light of the fact that the (a) SA Revenue Service and (b) Customs Office have proven and uncontested knowledge of the tariffs applicable to the imported material (details furnished) and given the fact that he and/or the National Treasury are provided with regular reports about extended demurrage of the specified items and cost for storage to importers, has he found that there are procedures and processes that are problematic and/or overly bureaucratic, which need speedy resolution in the interest of fairness, rationality and lawfulness; if not, how was the conclusion reached; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether he will make a statement on the matter?

Source
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Reply:

The South African Revenue Services has a mandate to control the import, export, manufacture or use of goods. SARS Customs is responsible for implementing a wide range of government policies, including revenue collection, trade compliance and facilitation, control over prohibited and restricted goods, protection of cultural heritage and enforcement of intellectual property laws.

This mandate is inter alia exercised by the risk based assessment and examination (documentary and/or physical) of goods to ascertain whether the provisions of the Customs and Excise Act No. 91 of 1964, (‘the Act”) or other relevant legislation have been complied with. In this regard, the Act makes provision in section 4(8A) for an officer to stop and detain and examine any goods while under customs control in order to determine whether the provisions of the Act or any other law have been complied with in respect of such goods. Section 107(1)(a) of the Act further provides that all expenses of landing, examination, weighing, analysis etc. of imported goods shall be borne by the importer, owner or other person , whoever is in control of those goods. The Act further provides in terms of section 107(2)(a) that goods may be released on provision of security by the client, pending the final outcome of an intervention.

This policy position is also internationally applied in the customs legislation of other jurisdictions and is very much aligned to acceptable international practice. In instances where the goods are not dealt with in terms of section 107, such goods are transferred to the state warehouse pending the final outcome of the intervention.

All Customs declarations are submitted through automated channels and risk assessed based on a variety of factors that may include commodity type (tariff), value, origin, rebate provisions etc. In this regard, more than 90% of all trade are automatically risk-assessed and released within seconds. The balance is subjected to documentary inspection where the officer will consider the customs declaration against a variety of trade documents in order to establish correctness and any further possible risks or interpretive matters to be considered. This may lead to further physical examination of the goods.

This process does often result in goods for a particular trader being stopped repetitively over a period of time, and accordingly, SARS was approached by trade to explore improved resolution where the importer/exporter, supplier and commodity type is the same. Formal communication was sent to trade during October 2016, outlining a process through which the client can attach supporting documents reflecting outcomes of previous identical cases for documentary inspection purposes. Customs, at the time, committed to consider and review such supporting documents in their approach to mitigate perceived risk which will assist in reducing the likelihood of an intervention that may require physical inspection. This process is being utilised successfully by most traders today, and although documentary inspection do increase the time to release goods, in most cases this process is concluded within 4 hours after trade submits supporting documents. It is to be noted that there are infrequent incidents where goods are stopped for further examination despite the supporting documentation submitted.

In instances where a trader is uncertain of the correct tariff, value or origin to use on the goods being imported or exported, such trader may apply for a firm determination from SARS. A process, which commenced in May 2018, geared at eradicating the historical tariff determination backlogs resulted in related delays been eliminated. Goods subject to tariff disputes may be cleared with SARS following the section 107 route.

Further to this, SARS Customs is in the process of upgrading its risk systems to the effect that it will provide necessary tools to inspectors to enhance their decision making capabilities and reduce unnecessary and repetitive stops.

Clients who experience delays as a result of this can also contact the Customs Contact Centre or e-mail their query to the Customs Escalations mailbox for assistance. Customs further provides a facility for a Client to apply for Release and provide surety pending the final outcome of an intervention.

In addition to this, in acknowledging the opportunities to improve service, SARS have published a Client Charter which holds SARS accountable against its commitments in processing times and resolving queries within published timeframes.

09 October 2018 - NW2754

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

(1)What are the details of (a) the date on which a certain person (name furnished) was appointed to a certain position (name furnished), (b) the remuneration package of the specified person at the date of appointment, (c) any salary adjustments awarded to the person, including the dates and amount of salary adjustments and (d) who authorised the (i) original and (ii) any subsequently adjusted remuneration package; (2) what are the details of any reimbursements that were paid to the person for (a) telephone, (b) motor vehicle, (c) travel and (d) accommodation and any other expenses since the appointment date?

Source
Link

Reply:

1. (a) A certain person (name furnished) was appointed as Chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission for a period of five years with effect from 1 July 2017.

(b) R1, 927, 497, 00 (The Chairperson is responsible for his own pension and medical aid contributions and since appointment has not claimed for any incidental expenses)

(d) (i) The remuneration package was based on the salary level on which the position was advertised and the remuneration he was earning as a Special Advisor to the former Minister of Public Enterprises.

(ii) No adjustment has been made.

2. (a) The Chairperson has not claimed for any reimbursements

(b) The Chairperson has not claimed for any reimbursements

(d) The Chairperson has not claimed for any reimbursements

09 October 2018 - NW2709

Mokoena, Mr L to ask the Minister of Finance

What has been the return on each investment of the Public Investment Corporation over the past 10 years?

Source
Link

Reply:

See the link for reply: http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW2709_REPLY.pdf

09 October 2018 - NW2755

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

What are the details of the appointment of certain persons (names furnished) in terms of the (a) qualifications required for each position, (b) qualifications that each specified person possessed, (c) process that was followed to attract applicants for each position, (d) applicants who applied for each position, (e) reasons each specified person was appointed to each position and (f) remuneration package of each person, including (i) the date of appointment, (ii) remuneration package at the date of appointment, (iii) any salary adjustments, including the amounts, dates on which adjustments were made and (iv) the person(s) who authorised the adjustments?

Source
Link

Reply:

DR BROWN

a) Qualifications required for the position – FFC Chief Executive Officer : Post-Graduate degree in Economics, Finance or Commerce / Business Administration / Public Administration

b) Qualifications of Dr Kay Brown

(i) Senior Certificate at Westering High School, Port Elizabeth, 1985.

(ii) B.Comm with Economics and Accounting as major subjects, University of Port Elizabeth (now the Nelson Mandela University), 1988.

(ii) B.Comm (Honours) in Economics, University of Port Elizabeth, 1989.

(iv) Doctoral Degree in Economics, University of Cape Town, 2001 - (In June 2000 registration for a M.Comm degree was upgraded to a PhD.)

c) Process that was followed to attract applicants – Chief Executive Officer Position

(i) Request For Quotation (RFQ) was awarded to DAV on 17 January 2017 for the recruitment of the Chief Executive Officer.

(ii) A formal briefing meeting was held with FFC Officials and DAV Official. DAV was briefed on :

- Understanding and appreciating the FFC environment, culture, mission and values;

- Provided with full job specification

- The ideal candidate profile;

- Shortlisting selection criteria and the methodology;

- The advertising requirements; and

- Deadlines and delivery dates.

(iii) DAV received the advert sign-off on 2 February 2017 and advertised internally and externally in the Sunday Times on 5 February 2017 with a closing date of 27 February 2017.

(iv) Interviews were scheduled with the above candidates on 6 October 2017.

Dr Kay Brown;

Dr Patrick Mabuza;

Mr Norman Baloyi;

The following candidates withdrew their candidature:

Dr Vuyelwa Nhlapo:

Ms Zukiswa Potye.

The panel consisted of :

Prof Daniel Plaatjies- Chairperson

Dr Sibongile Muthwa- Deputy Chairperson

Professor Nico Steytler-Commissioner

Mr Sipho Lubisi- Commissioner

Mr Romeo Adams – Independent Member

In attendance

Mr Velile Mbethe- Acting CEO

Karen Robertson- Principal Consultant DAV

Ansuyah Maharaj-Dowra- Commission Secretary.

Both Dr Kay Brown and Dr Patrick Mabuza were sent for a competency assessment on 12 October 2017.

d) Applicants who applied for each position

(i) A total of fifty-seven (57) applications was received.

(ii) Fourteen (14) applications fitted the shortlist and were shortlisted by a panel which met on 19 May 2017. The panel consisted of:

- Dr Sibongile Muthwa- Deputy Chairperson

- Mr Sipho Lubisi- Commissioner

- Mr Velile Mbethe- Acting CEO( FFC)

- Ms Ansuyah Maharaj-Dorwa- Commission Secretary

- Dr Elsie Greyling- Independent Consultant

- Karen Robertson- Principal Consultant DAV

The following five (5) candidates were shortlisted:

- Dr Kay Brown;

- Dr Patrick Mabuza;

- Mr Norman Baloyi;

- Dr Vuyelwa Nhlapo: and

- Ms Zukiswa Potye.

e) Reasons each specified person was appointed to each position

Based on the outcome of the interview and competency assessment process, experience and qualifications, Dr Kay Brown was recommended for the role of the Chief Executive Office at the Financial and Fiscal Commission

f) Remuneration

i. Date of Appointment – 1 April 2018

ii. Remuneration package at the date of appointment – Salary level 15 – R1 544 406.00

iii. 1 April 2018 – Cost of Living Adjustment 5.5% from R1,544,406.00 to R1,629,348.00

iv. Authorised by the Commission Chairperson, as informed by the DPSA directive and Circular No. 17 of 2018.

2. MR MBETHE

(a) to (d) MR Mbethe was seconded as per request by the FFC Commissioners to the Financial and Fiscal Commission as the Acting Chief Executive Officer by the former Minister of Finance, the Honourable Minister PJ Gordhan as per the letter signed dated 9 September 2016. His term as Acting CEO ended on 31 March 2018. From 1 April 2018 Mr Mbethe was seconded to FFC as Executive Manager to mainly oversee disciplinary hearings coming out of the forensic investigation report.

(f) (i) 9 September 2016 – Salary level 15 – R1,299,501.00

(ii) 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018- (First Notch – Salary level 15)- R1,370,973.00

(iii) 1 April 2018 – Salary level 15- R1,370,937.00

- Cost of Living Adjustment 5.5% from R1,370,937.00- R1,446,377.00, effective 1 April 2018.

(iv) Authourised by the Chief Executive Officer as informed by the DPSA directive and Circular No. 17 of 2018.

3. MR G PETLELE

a) Qualifications required for the position – Human Resources Specialist: Post-Graduate Diploma or Degree in Human Resources Management or equivalent qualification

b) Qualifications for Mr G Petlele

i. Matric – Tshukudu High School - 1986

ii. BA degree Industrial Psychology and Communication - (UNISA);

iii. Masters Diploma in Human Resources Management ( RAU) Now University of Johannesburg);

iv. Programme in Business Leadership(UNISA–School of Business Leadership); and

v. Master Degree in Business Leadership (UNISA–School of Business Leadership).

c) Process that was followed to attract applicants

The vacant Human Resources Specialist position was advertised internally (FFC) and Externally in the Sunday Times with closing date 15 September 2017. Interviews were conducted on 23 January 2018 consisting of a panel of five (5) members.

i. Mr Velile Mbethe – Chairperson – Acting CEO- FFC

ii. Dr Ramos Mabugu- FFC Research Director

iii. Dr Thembi Ntshakala- Programme Manager – Intergovernmental Fiscal Relation

iv. Mr Mandla Tatana – Human Resources Specialist

v. Ms Chandrika Jugroop – Labour Relations Specialist

d) Applicants who applied for each position

One-hundred and eight (108) applications were received and six (6) candidates interviewed.

- Mr Gift Petlele;

- Ms Puleng Ratlabala;

- Ms Mandidsa Mtyila;

- Ms Chairmaine Koffman;

- Mr Anton Zondi

- Ms Jullena Thanjekwayo

e) Reasons each specified person was appointed to each position

i. M G Petlele possessed the appropriate and relevant qualifications as listed in b) above;

ii. Mr G Petlele possesses relevant in private, public and public service experience, gained from the following organisations/companies:

Industrial Development Corporation, Land and Agricultural Bank, Coca-Cola South Africa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Civil Aviation of South Africa and National Treasury.

iii. Interview performance – Based on the possessing of the technical human resources experience, demonstrated managerial and leadership experience, Mr.Petlele was recommended as the best suitable candidate for the Human Resources Specialist post.

f) Remuneration

i. The date of appointment – 1 April 2018

ii. Remuneration package at the date of appointment – Salary level 14 – R1,127,334.00

iii. August 2018 – Cost of Living Adjustment 5.5% from R1,127,334.00 - R1,189,337.00, effective 1 April 2018.

iv. Authourised by the Chief Executive Officer as informed by the DPSA directive and Circular No. 17 of 2018

09 October 2018 - NW2223

McLoughlin, Mr AR to ask the Minister of Finance

Whether he will furnish Mr A R McLoughlin with copies of all written agreements entered into by and between the Public Investment Corporation and Eskom in respect of any loans extended to Eskom from 1 January 2000, including all annexures and schedules to such agreements?

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Reply:

Bonds issued by Eskom in which the PIC has invested through a public auction, form part of the Domestic Multi-Term Note Programme (DMTNP) which is registered with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The documentation pertaining to these bonds are publicly available. However, the PIC did two private placement transactions with Eskom, one for R20 billion in May 2015 and one for R5 billion in February 2018. The R20 billion private placement is split into four tranches of R5 billion each, of notes maturing between March 2020 and March 2032. The R5 billion private placement was a short-term (one month) bridging facility that was paid back with interest of approximately R30 million, on 1 March 2018. The agreements for these two private placement transactions are confidential and cannot be made public.

09 October 2018 - NW2507

Lees, Mr RA to ask the Minister of Finance

What (a) amount did each state-owned entity borrow from any entity in China (i) in each of the past three financial years and (ii) since 1 April 2018, (b) is the name of the lender of each loan, (c) conditions are attached to each loan and (d) are the repayment periods for each loan in each case?

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ASB

The Accounting Standards Board has no loans from any entity in China, nor has it had any loans during the past three years.

CBDA

Co-operative Banks Development Agency has never borrowed from any entity from China.

DBSA

a) (i) NONE

(ii) N/A

b) N/A

(d) N/A

FAIS OMBUD

Zero

FIC

(a)(i)(ii) No amount was borrowed from any entity in China in each of the past three financial years since 1 April 2018.

(b)(c)(d) Not relevant to the Financial Intelligence Centre

FSCA

Financial Sector Conduct Authority

(a) +(b) Not applicable

GEPF

The Government Employees Pension Fund has no loans from any entity in China.

GPAA

The Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA) never took any loans with any entity in China since 1 April 2018 and in the past 3 financial years.

LAND BANK

The Land Bank’s borrowings from entities in China in each of the past three financial years and since 1 April 2015 are summarised as follows:

Financial Year	Lender	Loan Conditions	Repayment Period	Loan
				Amount	Outstanding
FY2016	¹RMB/CCB Syndicated Loan	To apply the amounts borrowed for general corporate purposes	3 years	CCB R275m Other R500m	Voluntary Prepaid on 29 September 2017 Amount outstanding: R0
FY2016	Absa/SBSA R2.7bn Syndicated Government Guaranteed Term Loan Facility	To increase the maturity profile of the Land Bank’s funding liabilities	Facility A – 6 years Facility B – 7 years	Facility A ²BOC R77m Other R1 527m Facility B BOC R77m Other R1 019m	Facility A (Bullet) BOC R77m Other R1 003m (R524m voluntary prepaid on 31 May 2018) Facility B (Amortising) BOC R65m Other R289m (R679m prepaid on 29 June 2018)
FY2017	None
FY2018	None
YTD	None

¹Rand Merchant Bank/China Construction Bank (“CCB”)

²Bank of China (“BOC”)

The table above shows that a total amount of R429m has been borrowed from Chinese entities during the past three financial years and that no borrowings have been raised during the current financial year that started on1 April 2018. As at 31 August 2018, the outstanding borrowings from entities in China amounted to R142m calculated as follows:

Total loans received from Chinese entities: R429m

Voluntary Prepayments: (R275m)

Instalments Paid: (R12m)

Loan Amount Outstanding 31 August 2018: R142m

PFA

a) The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator has not borrowed money from China in the past three financial years and since 01 April 2018.

PIC

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has never borrowed any money from any entity in China.

SARS

SARS has not borrowed any amount from any entity in China in the past 3 years or since April 2018 and therefore section b, c and d of the question is not applicable.

SASRIA

Sasria SOC Ltd is self-funded, with no loan facilities and has not held any loan facility in the past three financial years. Therefore, there has not been any borrowings from any entity in China.

TAX OMBUD

The Office of the Tax Ombud has not borrowed money from any entity from China.

09 October 2018 - NW2494

Rawula, Mr T to ask the Minister of Finance

Why has a certain person (name furnished), whose partner (name furnished) passed away on 1 May 2017, not received a spousal allowance more than a year after the spouse passed away?

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A certain person (name furnished), (applicant) applied for the funeral benefit in respect of the death of the member, (name furnished), during June 2017. At that time there was insufficient evidence submitted to support the application to be recognized as the life partner of (name furnished) and the accompanying related benefits. The applicant was requested to resubmit her application for recognition of a life partner which resubmitted application was received in March 2018. This application however erroneously indicated that (the applicant) was the child of the deceased in which case the applicant cannot be recognized as the life partner.

It was hereafter established that this was an error as applicant was not the child of the deceased. There were however still insufficient and supporting evidence from the family of the deceased to corroborate the existence of the life partnership as the evidence submitted purported to substantiate the factual dependency of the applicant only due to the family of the deceased not wishing to provide verification of the existence of a life partnership. As a result of the conflicting accounts, the matter was submitted to the internal Fraud Unit of the Government Pensions Administration Agency to validate the existence of the life partnership between the applicant and the deceased. The validation investigation was concluded on 3 September 2018 and payment in this matter in recognition of the life partnership application is currently in process.