Standing Committee on Public Accounts

The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA; Afrikaans: Staande Komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge) is a standing committee of the National Assembly of South Africa, the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa. It oversees the financial statements of all government departments and state institutions, any audit reports issued on those statements, reports compiled by the Auditor-General on government departments and state institutions, as well as any other financial statements or reports referred to by the committee.

From 1994 until 2024 the practice has been that Parliament elects an opposition party member as chairperson. In July 2024 the Parliament elected Songezi Zibi from Rise Mzansi, a member of the Government of National Unity (NGU) as chairperson.ActionSA, an opposition party that has not joined the GNU, criticised his election saying that the position has been "gifted to a member of the multi-party government/'GNU' which already commands a 70% majority in Parliament [which] serves to potentially neuter effective oversight over government expenditure and outcomes related performance. ... Strong government needs a counter balancing force in opposition that uses the considerable powers afforded to a SCOPA Chairperson to hold government to account."

Membership
The membership of the committee is as follows: The following people serve as alternate members of the committee:
 * Ganief Hendricks (Al Jama-ah)
 * Marubini Lubengo (African National Congress)
 * Thandiswa Marawu (African Transformation Movement)
 * Constance Mkhonto (Economic Freedom Fighters)

List of chairpersons
It is customary for a member of an opposition party to serve as chairperson of the committee. However, in 2024 Songezi Zibi, the leader of Rise Mzansi, a member of the GNU, was elected chairperson.