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Trade, Industry and Competition
South African National Accreditation System & National Metrology Institute of South Africa 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
27 Mar 2018
SANAS presented its strategic and annual performance plan (APP), and outlined its risk register as well as actions to improve management of the risks. In order to improve operational efficiency, SANAS would develop and implement a management development strategy, expand its assessor pool, and automate the accreditation processes. These actions ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
22 Mar 2018
Members considered and deliberated further on the outstanding issues that Members still needed to reach consensus on. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor led the Members through the clauses, and outlined the following clauses for deliberations:
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
20 Mar 2018
The Subcommittee met briefly to formalise the items for which there was no consensus. These included:
• the right of the consumer to apply for credit during the suspension period
• prescription and constitutional concerns;
• reporting on reckless lending by both debt counsellors and credit providers;
• whether suspension ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
15 Mar 2018
The Subcommittee continued from the previous day to consider flagged items that still required consensus in the 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill. The following concers were considered:
• if the Tribunal member should exercise discretion when adjudicating an application or whether clear steps should be set out in the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
14 Mar 2018
The Subcommittee deliberated on items where consensus had not been reached. They agreed on the following issues, comments and questions:
• Debt intervention would be available to everyone living in South Africa because the Bill of Rights protects human beings living in South Africa, not only the citizens
• Joint ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Localisation & Local Procurement Inquiry: bus procurement day 2
28 Feb 2018
The inquiry into the compliance with localisation and local public procurement policy for bus procurement continued for a second day - with presentations by bus building companies. The Chairperson explained that the inquiry was all about asking everyone to be patriotic and to work together. It was not about who ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Draft Bill: public hearing; Research on over-indebtedness
13 Feb 2018
Black Sash in its submission on the National Credit Amendment Bill, made it clear that the protection of social grants from fraudulent and unlawful deductions was a critical element of the right to social security/assistance as set out in the Constitution, international instruments and jurisprudence. The Easy Pay Everywhere (EPE) ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Lotteries Commission + National Empowerment Fund Quarter 2 performance
6 Feb 2018
The key topics discussed after the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) Quarter 2 performance report were illegal lotteries, disbursement of a greater portion of lottery funding to SASCOC, pro-active funding, adjudication of applications by the National Gambling Board. Although the NLC received a clean audit, members expressed discomfort that SASCOC received ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Debt Relief Committee Bill: public hearings Day 3
2 Feb 2018
Before commencing Day 3 of the hearings, the Chairperson referred to a Committee media statement about its concern about water price increases. The media did not always print the relevant information, which was that the Committee had communicated with all departments working with water. The Committee’s interest was in unfair ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Debt Relief Committee Bill: public hearings Day 2
31 Jan 2018
Before commencing the public hearing on debt intervention legislation, the Chairperson asked the National Consumer Regulator to comment on Capitec Bank from the perspective of the NCR, in the light of recent allegations against Capitec. The National Consumer Regulator replied that it did not know of any concerns about he ...