Mr Eddie Makue

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Eddie Makue

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Competition Amendment Bill [B23B-2018]: public hearings
    13 Nov 2018

    COSATU supported the Bill and asked that the Committee and the National Council of Provinces speedily process the Bill. COSATU believed that the instances of collusion by mainly white owned apartheid style companies had flourished due to previous economic practices. The Bill sought to end the rampant corruption by the ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement; SADC Protocol on Finance & Investment amendment; DTI Annual Report
    7 Nov 2018

    The Committee was given some context on the global environment in which SA found itself in. Growth was slowing down in China and SA was being affected by the interest rates and policy of the United States of America (USA). Domestically, SA was starting to turn the corner as there ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Department of Tourism 2017/18 Annual Report
    31 Oct 2018

    Annual Reports 2017/18

    The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 Annual Report.

    The NDT had managed to obtain an unqualified audit report with no matters of emphasis but there was however findings by the Auditor General of SA. On the financials of the NDT, total ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development AARTO Bill [B38B-2015]: final mandates
    30 Oct 2018

    Delegates presented their respective final mandates on the Bill to the Committee. The Eastern Cape Province, the Free State Province, the KwaZulu-Natal Province, the Limpopo Province, the Mpumalanga Province and the Northern Cape Province voted in favour of the Bill. The Western Cape Province was not in support of the ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour National Credit Amendment Bill [B30-2018]: briefing
    10 Oct 2018

    The Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefed the Committee on the National Credit Amendment Bill. The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry in October 2016 had initiated the Bill to provide debt relief measures for the most vulnerable of consumers. One of the main themes of the Bill was to create a ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Competition Amendment Bill: briefing by Minister and Deputy Minister
    9 Oct 2018

    The Minister of Economic Development provided an overview of the Competition Amendment Bill to the Select Committee although the Bill was due to be passed by the Portfolio Committee only on 16 October. The Competition Act was enacted twenty years ago in 1998. Over time, certain gaps had been identified. ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour African Union Agenda 2063
    12 Sep 2018

    The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) briefed the Committee on Agenda 2063.

    The African Union Member States adopted Agenda 2063 as an overarching framework for addressing past injustices and realization of the Pan-African vision of an “integrated and prosperous Africa”.

    Agenda 2063 is the Continent’s strategic framework for ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7B-2016]: public hearings
    11 Sep 2018

    The Select Committee was briefed by stakeholders in the South African taxi industry – including e-hailing operators and metered taxi organisations -- on their views on the National Land Transport Amendment Bill.

    Uber welcomed the Bill, but had three main concerns. These concerned the punitive measures, the vehicle markings and ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Department of Tourism progress & interventions to stimulate domestic tourism
    5 Sep 2018

    The National Department of Tourism (NDT) and SA Tourism briefed the Committee on progress and interventions to stimulate domestic tourism.

    The challenge at hand was SA’s lack lustre domestic tourism performance and on how to grow domestic tourism on the back of tough economic conditions in SA. The NDT had ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development AARTO Amendment Bill: proposed amendments; National Land Transport Amendment Bill: stakeholder inputs
    4 Sep 2018

    The State Law Adviser took the Committee through the proposed amendments to the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill. These would be sent to the provincial legislatures for consideration of their final mandates.

    In the public hearings on the National Land Transport Amendment Bill, the South African ...