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NCOP Economic and Business Development
Infrastructure Development Bill: Final mandates; Mineral & Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill: Negotiating mandates; Committee Legacy Report
25 Mar 2014
Provinces were asked to present their final mandates on the Infrastructure Development Bill, but the meeting had to be postponed twice whilst the outstanding mandates were awaited. Eventually, it was noted that Western Cape had opposed the Bill. Free State and Gauteng were only holding hearings on the Bill that ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Infrastructure Development Bill [B49B-2013]: Negotiating Mandates
17 Mar 2014
The Select Committee met to consider the negotiating mandates from the provinces on the Infrastructure Development Bill. However, most of the proceedings were spent arguing over the method for addressing the mandates from each province. In the end, all the provinces – with the exception of the Western Cape – ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Rollout of National Solar Water Heater Programme: briefing by Department of Energy
24 Feb 2014
The Department of Energy (DoE) met with the Select Committee on Economic Development to brief the Committee on the National Solar Water Heater Programme. The installation of solar water heaters (SWHs) was announced in 2009 and over the current medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) had remained government’s short-term target. In ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Legal Metrology Bill: Negotiating Mandates
18 Feb 2014
The Committee voted on the Legal Metrology Bill. The only concerns on the Bill related to the lack of inspectors, the impact of the lack of inspectors on implementation and monitoring, the need for standardisation markings and noncompliant products. These concerns were then responded to by the team of legal ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
White Paper on South African Policy and Revised White Paper on South Africa's Participation in International Peace Missions: Departmental briefing
11 Feb 2014
The briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation covered the objective of the White Paper on South Africa’s Participation in International Peace Missions, what guided South Africa’s participation and the framework that was utilised. It covered the values enshrined and the mandate for participation. The mandates included the ...