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Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
28 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee commenced by going through the responses from Ms Lindiwe Zulu Minister of Small Business Development, to which Members did not comment. The Chairperson tabled the document and the Committee considered the report page by page. Mr R Chance (DA) noted a ...
Basic Education
School Nutrition petition; School Readiness for 2016; National Education Evaluation & Development Unit (NEEDU)
27 Oct 2015
The National School Nutrition Programme report was in response to a petition submitted by Limpopo residents about the nutrition at their schools. The meals that are served at schools are not always healthy, and storage of such food, especially fresh produce, is poor. The petition also discussed the tenders and ...
Basic Education
Basic Education Budget Review and Recommendations Report
21 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee considered the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) on the performance of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) for the 2014/15 financial year. Some errors were identified and corrected. The report was adopted after careful consideration and proposals for the correction ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
21 Oct 2015
The Committee met for the second consideration of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The report was reviewed and several recommendations, explanations and amendments were proposed. The Chairperson agreed to review the input and edit the document according to the submissions. The BRRR was not approved and another meeting ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
The Content Advisor to the Portfolio Committee of Small Business presented the draft of the Budget Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR). He said the BRRR entailed all the issues discussed, deliberated and recommended by the Committee, and most of these had been about financing and the working of the administration. ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency and Small Enterprise Development Agency on their Strategies & Annual Performance Reports
15 Oct 2015
Entities of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented their annual performance reports. Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) discussed the conversion of the loan, to equity. In this year, sefa approved R1 billion, and disbursed over R1.3 billion to small, micro and medium (SMMEs) enterprises. Sefa had assisted over ...
Basic Education
South African Council for Educators (SACE); Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC); Umalusi on their 2014/15 Annual Reports
14 Oct 2015
South African Council for Educators (SACE)
The presentation was made by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African Council for Educators (SACE) on the 2014/15 annual report of SACE. He reflected on the foreword of the Chairperson of SACE to the effect that SACE now had a stricter ...
Small Business Development
Consideration of Committee Minutes
23 Sep 2015
The Committee met briefly to adopt the outstanding minutes of six previous meetings. The matters were reviewed swiftly with minimal dissent, approved and adopted. Consideration of the Oversight Report was postponed for the next meeting due to the absence of some Committee Members.
Basic Education
Teacher Centres: Department of Basic Education briefing
22 Sep 2015
The Department of Basic Education said that the function of the teacher development centres was to help teachers develop their instructional skills in ICT and subject areas where they may fall short. These centres are currently operating in five provinces, but are still needed in four. The results of the ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its first quarter performance for 2015/16 financial year.
Regarding the budget allocation of R1.1 billion for enterprise development, the Department had spent about R220 million so far -- an under-expenditure of R90 million. This had been due to the ...