FINANCIAL AND FISCAL COMMISSION:
Financial and Fiscal Commission CEO aims to deepen SA’s fiscal relations
The new CEO of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), Kay Brown, plans to deepen the role of the constitutionally enshrined body in advising National Treasury on intergovernmental fiscal relations. Brown moved to the FFC in early April after a 16-year career with the Treasury, which ended with her occupying the role of chief director for expenditure planning in the budget office. As a former university lecturer with a doctorate in the economics of crime, she brings not only a knowledge of the budget process and the government system to her new role, but also academic research skills that are relevant to an institution involved in research. The organisation had been without a permanent CEO since 2010. Bongani Khumalo, the previous deputy chair, acted in the position until 2016, when his term expired. Prof Daniel Plaatjies was appointed chairman in July 2017. It later emerged, however, that during the previous period there had been allegations of impropriety, which were probed and...
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