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857 THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2008
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The MINISTER OF FINANCE:
(1) (a) R15 804 326,75.
(b) Refer to Annex 1 for the list of
consultants utilised by the National
Treasury.
(c) Consultants utilised by the National
Treasury are appointed to
apply expert skills in respect of the
following:
ANNEX 1
2007-08
● Investigate a specific issue or
problem,
● Carry out research,
● Provide advice,
● Develop systems or computer
software, and
● Provide particular professional
services.
(d) The National Treasury engages
consultants only in respect of
short-term projects for which it is
not justifiable to employ someone
on a full-time basis.
(2) No.
Name of consultant/company Purpose
Catherine Garson and Associates To assist in completing work on the Decision-Maker’s Guide to
PPPs in South Africa.
Louw Labuschagne on behalf of
Letsema Consulting
To extract a base-line architecture utilising the Back Office Project
as the starting point.
Mr Willies Welgemoed Assistance in selected areas of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local
municipality.
Mr James Aiello To advise and support in Expanding Health PPP. Making Municipal
PPPs more effective. Development of Municipal Guidelines and
strengthening contract management for projects implementation.
Karin Martin and Catherine Editing the 2008 Estimates of National Expenditure (ENE)
Garson and Associates
Ken Finlayson To support IGR Branch on the MIDMIP programmes and to change
terms of reference for principal Technical Advisor.
KPMG Conducting of Quality Assurance Reviews in National Departments
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Conducting of Quality Assurance Reviews in Provincial
Departments
Deloitte & Touché Providing assistance to the IGR unit to determine the allocation of
financial assistance to municipalities.
DrCDRRumstojee Assisted in establishing policy and operations for the G20.
K Breytenbach Providing Financial analysis desk of the PPP unit and the
implementation of policies.
Annual reports
1708. Adv H C SCHMIDT (DA) asked the
Minister of Minerals and Energy:
In respect of the 2006-07 and 2007-08
annual reports of her department and the
annual reports of each statutory and other
entity reporting to her, (a) what was the (i)
budgeted cost, (ii) actual cost and (iii) unit
cost of each annual report and (b) how
many copies of each were produced and
(ii) distributed? NW2088E