{"id":15991,"date":"2025-11-24T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-parliament-seeks-clarity-on-g20-summit-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:28:03","slug":"sa-parliament-seeks-clarity-on-g20-summit-costs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-parliament-seeks-clarity-on-g20-summit-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Parliament seeks clarity on G20 Summit costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) Parliament is pressing Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana for details on the cost of hosting the recent G20 Leaders&#8217; Summit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Standing Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Mmusi Maimane, has written to Godongwana as part of its constitutional duty to oversee public spending.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee needs to know whether the summit was delivered within the allocated budget or exceeded it,\u201d Maimane said. \u201cAt the start of the financial year, figures of roughly R500 to R600 million ($29\u202fmillion to $35\u202fmillion) were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last thing you want in the budgeting process is to commit to spending R600 million ($35\u202fmillion) and then later announce the final cost as over a billion ($58\u202fmillion) or even R2 billion ($116\u202fmillion). That undermines the integrity of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The G20 Summit concluded yesterday with a joint declaration emphasising multilateral co-operation. Maimane said SA\u2019s history of inflated procurement costs for large-scale events prompted the committee\u2019s scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15992,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-15991","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA Parliament is pressing Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana for details on the cost of hosting the recent G20","published_date":"2025-11-24 11:34:35","news_description":"SA Parliament is pressing Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana for details on the cost of hosting the recent G20","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19992,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15991\/revisions\/19992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}