Irate Scopa MPs resolve to subpoena Transnet after no-show
Transnet says it found out late that the Scopa committee expected its entire board to be at the meeting
Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts will subpoena Transnet officials to appear before the committee in January after the entity snubbed the committee on Wednesday. However, Transnet said it found out late that the committee had expected its entire board to be at the meeting, which had been due to discuss Transnet’s deviations from procurement guidelines and expansion of pre-existing contracts. Transnet incurred R549m in irregular expenditure in the 2016-17 financial year. It had sought Treasury approval of R427m in deviations and made contract expansions to the value of R3.64bn. Irate parliamentary committee members resolved to subpoena the Transnet delegationto appear before the committee in January. Transnet board chairwoman Linda Mabaso told Business Day that Transnet intended to account to Parliament but that she had been informed only on Monday that the entire board was expected to appear. "It must be pointed out that, except for the chairperson, no other board m...
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